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We introduce intra-class memorability, where certain images within the same class are more memorable than others despite shared category characteristics. To investigate what features make one object instance more memorable than others, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jie Jing , Yongjian Huang , Serena J. -W. Wang , Shuangpeng Han , Lucia Schiatti , Yen-Ling Kuo , Qing Lin , Mengmi Zhang

AI-generated content and misinformation are increasingly prevalent on social networks. While prior research primarily examined textual misinformation, fewer studies have focused on visual content's role in virality. In this work, we present…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Saumya Chauhan , Mila Hong , Maria Vazhaeparambil

Images vary in how memorable they are to humans. Inspired by findings from cognitive science and computer vision, we explore correlates of image memorability in pretrained transformer-based vision encoders for the first time. Focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ece Takmaz , Albert Gatt , Jakub Dotlacil

This paper studies the problem of measuring and predicting how memorable an image is to pattern recognition machines, as a path to explore machine intelligence. Firstly, we propose a self-supervised machine memory quantification pipeline,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junlin Han , Huangying Zhan , Jie Hong , Pengfei Fang , Hongdong Li , Lars Petersson , Ian Reid

This research study proposes using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) that incorporate a two-dimensional measure of human memorability to generate memorable or non-memorable images of scenes. The memorability of the generated images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Cameron Kyle-Davidson , Adrian G. Bors , Karla K. Evans

This paper deals with the prediction of the memorability of a given image. We start by proposing an algorithm that reaches human-level performance on the LaMem dataset - the only large scale benchmark for memorability prediction. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Shay Perera , Ayellet Tal , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Recently, Twitter has become the social network of choice for sharing and spreading information to a multitude of users through posts called 'tweets'. Users can easily re-share these posts to other users through 'retweets', which allow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rikaz Rameez , Hossein A. Rahmani , Emine Yilmaz

Imageability (potential of text to evoke a mental image) and concreteness (perceptibility of text) are two psycholinguistic properties that link visual and semantic spaces. It is little surprise that computational methods that estimate them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Si Wu , Sebastian Bruch

In this paper, we present the Predicting Media Memorability task, which is proposed as part of the MediaEval 2018 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. Participants are expected to design systems that automatically predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Romain Cohendet , Claire-Hélène Demarty , Ngoc Duong , Mats Sjöberg , Bogdan Ionescu , Thanh-Toan Do , France Rennes

Memorability is considered to be an important characteristic of visual content, whereas for advertisement and educational purposes it is often crucial. Despite numerous studies on understanding and predicting image memorability, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Oleksii Sidorov

Billions of photos are uploaded to the web daily through various types of social networks. Some of these images receive millions of views and become popular, whereas others remain completely unnoticed. This raises the problem of predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Fatma S. Abousaleh , Wen-Huang Cheng , Neng-Hao Yu , Yu Tsao

Social information networks, such as YouTube, contains traces of both explicit online interaction (such as "like", leaving a comment, or subscribing to video feed), and latent interactions (such as quoting, or remixing parts of a video). We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Lexing Xie , Apostol Natsev , Xuming He , John Kender , Matthew Hill , John R Smith

This paper aims to shed some light on the concept of virality - especially in social networks - and to provide new insights on its structure. We argue that: (a) virality is a phenomenon strictly connected to the nature of the content being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Marco Guerini , Carlo Strapparava , Gozde Ozbal

In the competitive landscape of advertising, success hinges on effectively navigating and leveraging complex interactions among consumers, advertisers, and advertisement platforms. These multifaceted interactions compel advertisers to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Sepehr Asgarian , Qayam Jetha , Jouhyun Jeon

We report results from a preliminary study exploring the memorability of spatial scientific visualizations, the goal of which is to understand the visual features that contribute to memorability. The evaluation metrics include three…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Rui Li , Jian Chen

In our overly-connected world, the automatic recognition of virality - the quality of an image or video to be rapidly and widely spread in social networks - is of crucial importance, and has recently awaken the interest of the computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Andrea Pilzer , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Retweet prediction is a challenging problem in social media sites (SMS). In this paper, we study the problem of image retweet prediction in social media, which predicts the image sharing behavior that the user reposts the image tweets from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Zhou Zhao , Hanbing Zhan , Lingtao Meng , Jun Xiao , Jun Yu , Min Yang , Fei Wu , Deng Cai

A key capability of an intelligent system is deciding when events from past experience must be remembered and when they can be forgotten. Towards this goal, we develop a predictive model of human visual event memory and how those memories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Anelise Newman , Camilo Fosco , Vincent Casser , Allen Lee , Barry McNamara , Aude Oliva

Information spread in social media depends on a number of factors, including how the site displays information, how users navigate it to find items of interest, users' tastes, and the `virality' of information, i.e., its propensity to be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Jeon-Hyung Kang , Kristina Lermam

Reactions to posts in an online social network show different dynamics depending on several textual features of the corresponding content. Do similar dynamics exist when images are posted? Exploiting a novel dataset of posts, gathered from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marco Guerini , Jacopo Staiano , Davide Albanese