Sharpen your senses
and strengthen your verification skills
Verification is not just about tools. Essential are our human senses. Whom can we trust, if not our own senses?
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
We created a training for you, so that you are able to take full advantage of your senses.
In this training you will find exercises to sharpen your vision and hearing skills. Each activity has three exercises at three levels: easy, medium and advanced.
Doing these exercises will make you more confident to detect the almost (in)visible traces in synthetic and manipulated media like blurred spots, missing pieces or a change of voice emphasis and cut & paste manipulation within a speech.
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Active observing
Click on an exercise and train your eagle eyes.
Tip: Take a close look and gather the facts.
Precise Listening
Click on an exercise and train your lynx ears.
Tip: Close your eyes.
Bubble Mix
How many bubbles can you count?
Count all the bubbles you can see. Clustered bubbles count as one.
Focus on the details, take your time and ask a colleague to look at it as well. Do not just focus on the most visible one.
Tips: You can download the image to be able to zoom. You could use the Magnifier on InVid for that.
Answer
Bubble Mix
How many bubbles can you count?
Count all the bubbles you can see. Clustered bubbles count as one.
Focus on the details, take your time and ask a colleague to look at it as well. Do not just focus on the most visible one.
Tips: You can download the image to be able to zoom. You could use the Magnifier on InVid for that.
Answer
Bubble Mix
How many bubbles can you count?
Count all the bubbles you can see. Clustered bubbles count as one.
Focus on the details, take your time and ask a colleague to look at it as well. And do not just focus on the most visible one.
Tips: Pause the video so that you can skim through the timeline by using < and >.
You can also download the video to watch it frame-by-frame. For example with the VLC player on your computer.
Answer
20 Hints
Extract 20 pieces of information hinting to the specific location
Try to find 20 hints that can point you to the location you see. You can select them by clicking on the image. Hoover over the image to zoom.
Take your time and you will find important clues for determining the location and time.
Focus on visual elements: street names, restaurants & shops, cars & license plates, ads, logos, public transport, architecture, antennas, clothing, trees, landscape, lakes, vegetation, animals and weather.
Focus on sounds: language, church bells, a muezzin calling for prayer, vehicles, trains, an aircraft taking off or a bird’s call.
Tips: You can download visuals to be able to zoom in and watch a video frame-by-frame.
You could use the Magnifier on InVid and use frame-by-frame viewing in the VLC player on your computer.
20 Hints
Extract 20 pieces of information hinting to the specific location
Try to find 20 hints that can point you to the location you see. You can select them by clicking on the image. Hoover over the image to zoom.
Take your time and you will find important clues for determining the location and time.
Focus on visual elements: street names, restaurants & shops, cars & license plates, ads, logos, public transport, architecture, antennas, clothing, trees, landscape, lakes, vegetation, animals and weather.
Focus on sounds: language, church bells, a muezzin calling for prayer, vehicles, trains, an aircraft taking off or a bird’s call.
Tips: You can download visuals to be able to zoom in and watch a video frame-by-frame.
You could use the Magnifier on InVid and use frame-by-frame viewing in the VLC player on your computer.
20 Hints
Extract 20 pieces of information hinting to the specific location
Try to find 20 hints that can point you to the location you see. You can select them by clicking on the image. Hoover over the image to zoom.
Take your time and you will find important clues for determining the location and time.
Focus on visual elements: street names, restaurants & shops, cars & license plates, ads, logos, public transport, architecture, antennas, clothing, trees, landscape, lakes, vegetation, animals and weather.
Focus on sounds: language, church bells, a muezzin calling for prayer, vehicles, trains, an aircraft taking off or a bird’s call.
Tips: You can download visuals to be able to zoom in and watch a video frame-by-frame.
You could use the Magnifier on InVid and use frame-by-frame viewing in the VLC player on your computer.
7 Differences
Can you find them?
Compare the two images. Click on the differences in the left image.
Tip: Download both images and switch between the tabs.
7 Differences
Can you find them?
Compare the two images. Click on the differences in the left image.
Tip: Download both images and switch between the tabs.
7 Differences
Can you find them?
Compare the two images. Click on the differences in the left image.
Tip: Download both images and switch between the tabs.
Voice Clone
Real or synthetic?
Listen precisely to the audios. Two voices are synthetic and just one voice is real - which one?
Tip: Put on your headphones and concentrate on the pronounciation.
Voice Clone
Real or synthetic?
Listen precisely to the audios. Two voices are synthetic and just one voice is real - which one?
Tip: Put on your headphones and concentrate on the pronounciation.
Voice Clone
Real or synthetic?
Listen precisely to the audios. Two voices are synthetic and just one voice is real - which one?
Tip: Put on your headphones and concentrate on the pronounciation.
Critical Listening
What do you 'hear' exactly?
Listen precisely to the audio. Out of the 4 options which sound can you detect? Select one.
Tip: Listen several times and shift your focus between the foreground and the background.
I can hear:
Critical Listening
What do you 'hear' exactly?
Listen precisely to the audio. Out of the 4 options which sound can you detect? Select one.
Tip: Listen several times and shift your focus between the foreground and the background.
I can hear:
Critical Listening
What do you 'hear' exactly?
Listen precisely to the audio. Out of the 4 options which sound can you detect? Select one.
Tip: Listen several times and shift your focus between the foreground and the background.
I can hear:
Mixtape
Sound collection - but which sounds?
Listen precisely to the audio. Out of the 10 options which sounds can you detect? Select two.
Tip: Put on your headphones and close your eyes.
I can hear:
Mixtape
Sound collection - but which sounds?
Listen precisely to the audio. Out of the 10 options which sounds can you detect? Select three.
Tip: Put on your headphones and close your eyes.
I can hear:
Mixtape
Sound collection - but which sounds?
Listen precisely to the audio. Out of the 10 options which sounds can you detect? Select four.
Tip: Put on your headphones and close your eyes.
I can hear:
- Concept: Julia Bayer
- Design: Ruben Bouwmeester
- Development: Niko Para
- Copyright images, videos and sounds: Julia Bayer