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Hateful memes are a growing menace on social media. While the image and its corresponding text in a meme are related, they do not necessarily convey the same meaning when viewed individually. Hence, detecting hateful memes requires careful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Karthik Nandakumar

Online abuse is becoming an increasingly prevalent issue in modern-day society, with 41 percent of Americans having experienced online harassment in some capacity in 2021. People who identify as women, in particular, can be subjected to a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Sarah Barrington

Foreign information operations on social media platforms pose significant risks to democratic societies. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this threat is likely to intensify, potentially overwhelming human defenders. To achieve…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jurriaan van Diggelen , Eugene Aidman , Jazz Rowa , Julian Vince

The rapid evolution of GUI-enabled agents has rendered traditional CAPTCHAs obsolete. While previous benchmarks like OpenCaptchaWorld established a baseline for evaluating multimodal agents, recent advancements in reasoning-heavy models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiacheng Liu , Yaxin Luo , Jiacheng Cui , Xinyi Shang , Xiaohan Zhao , Zhiqiang Shen

Harmful memes are ever-shifting in the Internet communities, which are difficult to analyze due to their type-shifting and temporal-evolving nature. Although these memes are shifting, we find that different memes may share invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ziyou Jiang , Mingyang Li , Junjie Wang , Yuekai Huang , Jie Huang , Zhiyuan Chang , Zhaoyang Li , Qing Wang

The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to nontrivial improvements in various tasks, including accurate authorship identification of documents. However, while LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kenneth Alperin , Rohan Leekha , Adaku Uchendu , Trang Nguyen , Srilakshmi Medarametla , Carlos Levya Capote , Seth Aycock , Charlie Dagli

Online antisocial behavior, such as cyberbullying, harassment, and trolling, is a widespread problem that threatens free discussion and has negative physical and mental health consequences for victims and communities. While prior work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Ping Liu , Joshua Guberman , Libby Hemphill , Aron Culotta

With the rapid development of face recognition (FR) systems, the privacy of face images on social media is facing severe challenges due to the abuse of unauthorized FR systems. Some studies utilize adversarial attack techniques to defend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yuhao Sun , Lingyun Yu , Hongtao Xie , Jiaming Li , Yongdong Zhang

Modifying characters of a piece of text to their visual similar ones often ap-pear in spam in order to fool inspection systems and other conditions, which we regard as a kind of adversarial attack to neural models. We pro-pose a way of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Shengjun Liu , Ningkang Jiang , Yuanbin Wu

Facial identification systems are increasingly deployed in surveillance and yet their vulnerability to adversarial evasion and impersonation attacks pose a critical risk. This paper introduces a novel framework for generating adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Noe Claudel , Weisi Guo , Yang Xing

With the development of large language models (LLMs), detecting whether text is generated by a machine becomes increasingly challenging in the face of malicious use cases like the spread of false information, protection of intellectual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ying Zhou , Ben He , Le Sun

Deepfakes are computationally-created entities that falsely represent reality. They can take image, video, and audio modalities, and pose a threat to many areas of systems and societies, comprising a topic of interest to various aspects of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sergi D. Bray , Shane D. Johnson , Bennett Kleinberg

The studies on black-box adversarial attacks have become increasingly prevalent due to the intractable acquisition of the structural knowledge of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, the performance of emerging attacks is negatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Jie Wang , Zhaoxia Yin , Jin Tang , Jing Jiang , Bin Luo

The spread of hate speech on social media space is currently a serious issue. The undemanding access to the enormous amount of information being generated on these platforms has led people to post and react with toxic content that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Abhishek Velankar , Hrushikesh Patil , Raviraj Joshi

Text CAPTCHA has been an effective means to protect online systems from spams and abuses caused by automatic scripts which pretend to be human beings. However, nearly all the Text CAPTCHA designs in nowadays are based on English characters,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Junnan Yu , Xuna Ma , Ting Han

Adversarial attacks against Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are crucial for exposing safety vulnerabilities in modern multimodal systems. Recent attacks based on input transformations, such as random cropping, suggest that spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jaehyun Kwak , Nam Cao , Boryeong Cho , Segyu Lee , Sumyeong Ahn , Se-Young Yun

As tools for content editing mature, and artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms for synthesizing media grow, the presence of manipulated content across online media is increasing. This phenomenon causes the spread of misinformation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Trisha Mittal , Ritwik Sinha , Viswanathan Swaminathan , John Collomosse , Dinesh Manocha

DeepFake face swapping presents a significant threat to online security and social media, which can replace the source face in an arbitrary photo/video with the target face of an entirely different person. In order to prevent this fraud,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Junhao Dong , Yuan Wang , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie

Adversarial attacks on machine learning models have seen increasing interest in the past years. By making only subtle changes to the input of a convolutional neural network, the output of the network can be swayed to output a completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Simen Thys , Wiebe Van Ranst , Toon Goedemé

The existence of adversarial attacks on convolutional neural networks (CNN) questions the fitness of such models for serious applications. The attacks manipulate an input image such that misclassification is evoked while still looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Mohammadreza Amirian , Friedhelm Schwenker , Thilo Stadelmann