Our paper titled “Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach” has been recognized with the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2025, the premier XR conference. Heartfelt congratulations to the lead author, PhD student Yanming Xiu, who also received the 2025 IEEE ISMAR Doctoral Consortium Best Presentation and the Best Paper Award from a workshop co-located with IEEE ISMAR, IEEE Universal Augmented Interaction Workshop. Way to go Yanming! 
Yanming’s work, funded by the Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and by the National Science Foundation (NSF), demonstrates how we can make next-generation AR safer by employing modern large multimodal models for monitoring whether AR-generated virtual content modifies, in an inappropriate way, the state of the real world presented to the user in the AR interface.
This work paves way to solving one of the key challenges to adoption of AR in safety-critical contexts, and to widespread adoption of AR as a whole. It also serves as a great example of “AI for systems:” of how advances in AI can improve computer systems of the future.