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What does human pose tell us about a scene? We propose a task to answer this question: given human pose as input, hallucinate a compatible scene. Subtle cues captured by human pose -- action semantics, environment affordances, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tim Brooks , Alexei A. Efros

This paper explores humor detection through a linguistic lens, prioritizing syntactic, semantic, and contextual features over computational methods in Natural Language Processing. We categorize features into syntactic, semantic, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tanisha Khurana , Kaushik Pillalamarri , Vikram Pande , Munindar Singh

Scene graph is a structured representation of a scene that can clearly express the objects, attributes, and relationships between objects in the scene. As computer vision technology continues to develop, people are no longer satisfied with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Xiaojun Chang , Pengzhen Ren , Pengfei Xu , Zhihui Li , Xiaojiang Chen , Alex Hauptmann

Understanding a visual scene goes beyond recognizing individual objects in isolation. Relationships between objects also constitute rich semantic information about the scene. In this work, we explicitly model the objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Christopher B. Choy , Li Fei-Fei

It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But how exactly can we characterize such discrepancies in interpretation? For example, are there any specific features of an image that makes person A regard an image as beautiful while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Philipp Blandfort , Jörn Hees , Desmond U. Patton

Internet memes have become a dominant method of communication; at the same time, however, they are also increasingly being used to advocate extremism and foster derogatory beliefs. Nonetheless, we do not have a firm understanding as to…

We introduce the Scene Language, a visual scene representation that concisely and precisely describes the structure, semantics, and identity of visual scenes. It represents a scene with three key components: a program that specifies the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yunzhi Zhang , Zizhang Li , Matt Zhou , Shangzhe Wu , Jiajun Wu

Artificial intelligence has made significant progress in natural language processing, with models like GPT-3 demonstrating impressive capabilities. However, these models still have limitations when it comes to complex tasks that require an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yuetian Chen , Bowen Shi , Mei Si

The process of human affect understanding involves the ability to infer person specific emotional states from various sources including images, speech, and language. Affect perception from images has predominantly focused on expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Digbalay Bose , Rajat Hebbar , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

How does audio describe the world around us? In this paper, we propose a method for generating an image of a scene from sound. Our method addresses the challenges of dealing with the large gaps that often exist between sight and sound. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kim Sung-Bin , Arda Senocak , Hyunwoo Ha , Andrew Owens , Tae-Hyun Oh

Human laugh is able to convey various kinds of meanings in human communications. There exists various kinds of human laugh signal, for example: vocalized laugh and non vocalized laugh. Following the theories of psychology, among all the…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Sucheta Ghosh , Milos Cernak , Sarbani Palit , B. B. Chaudhuri

Complex scenes present significant challenges for predicting human behaviour due to the abundance of interaction information, such as human-human and humanenvironment interactions. These factors complicate the analysis and understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Caiyi Sun , Yujing Sun , Xiao Han , Zemin Yang , Jiawei Liu , Xinge Zhu , Siu Ming Yiu , Yuexin Ma

Memes are used for spreading ideas through social networks. Although most memes are created for humor, some memes become hateful under the combination of pictures and text. Automatically detecting the hateful memes can help reduce their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yi Zhou , Zhenhao Chen

The use of deep learning techniques has exploded during the last few years, resulting in a direct contribution to the field of artificial intelligence. This work aims to be a review of the state-of-the-art in scene recognition with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Alina Matei , Andreea Glavan , Estefania Talavera

As humans, we can modify our assumptions about a scene by imagining alternative objects or concepts in our minds. For example, we can easily anticipate the implications of the sun being overcast by rain clouds (e.g., the street will get…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Hyounghun Kim , Abhay Zala , Mohit Bansal

The quest to develop intelligent visual analytics (VA) systems capable of collaborating and naturally interacting with humans presents a multifaceted and intriguing challenge. VA systems designed for collaboration must adeptly navigate a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Alvitta Ottley

Recent trends in image understanding have pushed for holistic scene understanding models that jointly reason about various tasks such as object detection, scene recognition, shape analysis, contextual reasoning, and local appearance based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Roozbeh Mottaghi , Sanja Fidler , Alan Yuille , Raquel Urtasun , Devi Parikh

Memes are a widely popular tool for web users to express their thoughts using visual metaphors. Understanding memes requires recognizing and interpreting visual metaphors with respect to the text inside or around the meme, often while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 EunJeong Hwang , Vered Shwartz

The tasks of humor understanding and generation are challenging and subjective even for humans, requiring commonsense and real-world knowledge to master. Puns, in particular, add the challenge of fusing that knowledge with the ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jiao Sun , Anjali Narayan-Chen , Shereen Oraby , Alessandra Cervone , Tagyoung Chung , Jing Huang , Yang Liu , Nanyun Peng

Humans can effortlessly describe what they see, yet establishing a shared representational format between vision and language remains a significant challenge. Emerging evidence suggests that human brain representations in both vision and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-30 Katerina Marie Simkova , Adrien Doerig , Clayton Hickey , Ian Charest