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Metaverse platforms are rapidly evolving to provide immersive spaces for user interaction and content creation. However, the generation of dynamic and interactive 3D objects remains challenging due to the need for advanced 3D modeling and…

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Memes, combining text and images, frequently use metaphors to convey persuasive messages, shaping public opinion. Motivated by this, our team engaged in SemEval-2024 Task 4, a hierarchical multi-label classification task designed to…

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Memes are an increasingly prevalent element of online discourse in social networks, especially among young audiences. They carry ideas and messages that range from humorous to hateful, and are widely consumed. Their potentially high impact…

Traditional online content moderation systems struggle to classify modern multimodal means of communication, such as memes, a highly nuanced and information-dense medium. This task is especially hard in a culturally diverse society like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cao Yuxuan , Wu Jiayang , Alistair Cheong Liang Chuen , Bryan Shan Guanrong , Theodore Lee Chong Jen , Sherman Chann Zhi Shen

Short video recommendations often face limitations due to the quality of user feedback, which may not accurately depict user interests. To tackle this challenge, a new task has emerged: generating more dependable labels from original…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yimeng Bai , Yang Zhang , Jing Lu , Jianxin Chang , Xiaoxue Zang , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Fuli Feng

Hateful memes pose a unique challenge for current machine learning systems because their message is derived from both text- and visual-modalities. To this effect, Facebook released the Hateful Memes Challenge, a dataset of memes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Hannah Rose Kirk , Yennie Jun , Paulius Rauba , Gal Wachtel , Ruining Li , Xingjian Bai , Noah Broestl , Martin Doff-Sotta , Aleksandar Shtedritski , Yuki M. Asano

Multimodal image-text memes are prevalent on the internet, serving as a unique form of communication that combines visual and textual elements to convey humor, ideas, or emotions. However, some memes take a malicious turn, promoting hateful…

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Multimodal conversation, a crucial form of human communication, carries rich emotional content, making the exploration of the causes of emotions within it a research endeavor of significant importance. However, existing research on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lin Wang , Xiaocui Yang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

The automatic generation of controllable co-speech gestures has recently gained growing attention. While existing systems typically achieve gesture control through predefined categorical labels or implicit pseudo-labels derived from motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Youyi Zheng , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

In this paper we present a benchmark dataset generated as part of a project for automatic identification of misogyny within online content, which focuses in particular on memes. The benchmark here described is composed of 800 memes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Francesca Gasparini , Giulia Rizzi , Aurora Saibene , Elisabetta Fersini

A meme is an part of media created to share an opinion or emotion across the internet. Due to its popularity, memes have become the new forms of communication on social media. However, due to its nature, they are being used in harmful ways…

Recent advances show that two-stream approaches have achieved outstanding performance in hateful meme detection. However, hateful memes constantly evolve as new memes emerge by fusing progressive cultural ideas, making existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jinfa Huang , Jinsheng Pan , Zhongwei Wan , Hanjia Lyu , Jiebo Luo

The rapid advancement of deep generative models has significantly improved the realism of synthetic media, presenting both opportunities and security challenges. While deepfake technology has valuable applications in entertainment and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Arnesh Batra , Anushk Kumar , Jashn Khemani , Arush Gumber , Arhan Jain , Somil Gupta

Internet memes have emerged as an increasingly popular means of communication on the Web. Although typically intended to elicit humour, they have been increasingly used to spread hatred, trolling, and cyberbullying, as well as to target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shivam Sharma , Md. Shad Akhtar , Preslav Nakov , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Large scale pre-training on text and image data along with diverse robot demonstrations has helped Vision Language Action models (VLAs) to generalize to novel tasks, objects and scenes. However, these models are still susceptible to failure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kartikay Milind Pangaonkar , Prabin Rath , Omkar Patil , Nakul Gopalan

Hateful meme classification is a challenging multimodal task that requires complex reasoning and contextual background knowledge. Ideally, we could leverage an explicit external knowledge base to supplement contextual and cultural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Rui Cao , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Wen-Haw Chong , Jing Jiang

The spread of fake news, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and harmful content online raised concerns among social media platforms, government agencies, policymakers, and society as a whole. This is because such harmful or abusive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Rabindra Nath Nandi , Firoj Alam , Preslav Nakov

Internet memes are a powerful form of online communication, yet their nature and reliance on commonsense knowledge make toxicity detection challenging. Identifying key features for meme interpretation and understanding, is a crucial task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Stefano De Giorgis , Ting-Chih Chen , Filip Ilievski

Applying the keyword method for vocabulary memorization remains a significant challenge for L1 Chinese-L2 English learners. They frequently struggle to generate phonologically appropriate keywords, construct coherent associations, and…

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Concept generation is a creative step in the conceptual design phase, where designers often turn to brainstorming, mindmapping, or crowdsourcing design ideas to complement their own knowledge of the domain. Recent advances in natural…

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