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AI models capable of comprehending humor hold real-world promise -- for example, enhancing engagement in human-machine interactions. To gauge and diagnose the capacity of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for humor understanding, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zhengpeng Shi , Yanpeng Zhao , Jianqun Zhou , Yuxuan Wang , Qinrong Cui , Wei Bi , Songchun Zhu , Bo Zhao , Zilong Zheng

Humor is an integral part of human lives. Despite being tremendously impactful, it is perhaps surprising that we do not have a detailed understanding of humor yet. As interactions between humans and AI systems increase, it is imperative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Arjun Chandrasekaran , Ashwin K. Vijayakumar , Stanislaw Antol , Mohit Bansal , Dhruv Batra , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh

Dark humor in online memes poses unique challenges due to its reliance on implicit, sensitive, and culturally contextual cues. To address the lack of resources and methods for detecting dark humor in multimodal content, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Shahid Shafi Dar , Rishi Bharat Junghare , Dhanvin Sanjay Namboodiri , Nagendra Kumar

Humor is a natural and fundamental component of human interactions. When correctly applied, humor allows us to express thoughts and feelings conveniently and effectively, increasing interpersonal affection, likeability, and trust. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Felipe Godoy

Despite significant advancements in image segmentation and object detection, understanding complex scenes remains a significant challenge. Here, we focus on graphical humor as a paradigmatic example of image interpretation that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Vedaant Jain , Felipe dos Santos Alves Feitosa , Gabriel Kreiman

This paper presents OxfordTVG-HIC (Humorous Image Captions), a large-scale dataset for humour generation and understanding. Humour is an abstract, subjective, and context-dependent cognitive construct involving several cognitive factors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Runjia Li , Shuyang Sun , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Philip Torr

Humor, as both a creative human activity and a social binding mechanism, has long posed a major challenge for AI generation. Although producing humor requires complex cognitive reasoning and social understanding, theories of humor suggest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiajun Zhang , Shijia Luo , Ruikang Zhang , Qi Su

Satire, a form of artistic expression combining humor with implicit critique, holds significant social value by illuminating societal issues. Despite its cultural and societal significance, satire comprehension, particularly in purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yue Jiang , Haiwei Xue , Minghao Han , Mingcheng Li , Xiaolu Hou , Dingkang Yang , Lihua Zhang , Xu Zheng

Understanding humor is a core aspect of social intelligence, yet it remains a significant challenge for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). We introduce PixelHumor, a benchmark dataset of 2,800 annotated multi-panel comics designed to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yuriel Ryan , Rui Yang Tan , Kenny Tsu Wei Choo , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Dense video captioning is a task of localizing interesting events from an untrimmed video and producing textual description (captions) for each localized event. Most of the previous works in dense video captioning are solely based on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Metaphor and humor share a lot of common ground, and metaphor is one of the most common humorous mechanisms. This study focuses on the humorous capacity of multimodal metaphors, which has not received due attention in the community. We take…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoyu Tong , Zhi Zhang , Pia Sommerauer , Martha Lewis , Ekaterina Shutova

Humor is an essential human trait. Efforts to understand humor have called out links between humor and the foundations of cognition, as well as the importance of humor in social engagement. As such, it is a promising and important subject…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Robert West , Eric Horvitz

As short-form funny videos on social networks are gaining popularity, it becomes demanding for AI models to understand them for better communication with humans. Unfortunately, previous video humor datasets target specific domains, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Dayoon Ko , Sangho Lee , Gunhee Kim

Humor is a substantial element of human social behavior, affect, and cognition. Its automatic understanding can facilitate a more naturalistic human-AI interaction. Current methods of humor detection have been exclusively based on staged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lukas Christ , Shahin Amiriparian , Alexander Kathan , Niklas Müller , Andreas König , Björn W. Schuller

Generating humorous memes is a challenging multimodal task that moves beyond direct image-to-caption supervision. It requires a nuanced reasoning over visual content, contextual cues, and subjective humor. To bridge this gap between visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xueyan Li , Yingyi Xue , Mengjie Jiang , Qingzi Zhu , Yazhe Niu

Nowadays, the videos on the Internet are prevailing. The precise and in-depth understanding of the videos is a difficult but valuable problem for both platforms and researchers. The existing video understand models do well in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Fan Huang

Dense video captioning aims to localize and describe important events in untrimmed videos. Existing methods mainly tackle this task by exploiting only visual features, while completely neglecting the audio track. Only a few prior works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Vladimir Iashin , Esa Rahtu

Computational Humour (CH) has attracted the interest of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics communities. Creating datasets for automatic measurement of humour quotient is difficult due to multiple possible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anirudh Mittal , Pranav Jeevan , Prerak Gandhi , Diptesh Kanojia , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Emotions play a key role in human communication and public presentations. Human emotions are usually expressed through multiple modalities. Therefore, exploring multimodal emotions and their coherence is of great value for understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haipeng Zeng , Xingbo Wang , Aoyu Wu , Yong Wang , Quan Li , Alex Endert , Huamin Qu

Aiming towards improving current computational models of humor detection, we propose a new multimodal dataset of stand-up comedies, in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Czech. Our dataset of more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Valentin Barriere , Nahuel Gomez , Leo Hemamou , Sofia Callejas , Brian Ravenet
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