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The proliferation of disinformation, particularly in multimodal contexts combining text and images, presents a significant challenge across digital platforms. This study investigates the potential of large multimodal models (LMMs) in…

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The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for fake news detection. However, state-of-the-art approaches are usually trained on datasets of smaller…

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Fake news detection has received increasing attention from researchers in recent years, especially multi-modal fake news detection containing both text and images. However, many previous works have fed two modal features, text and image,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hongzhen Lv , Wenzhong Yang , Fuyuan Wei , Jiaren Peng , Haokun Geng

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread dissemination of fake news across multiple content forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Traditional unimodal detection methods fall short in addressing complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Moyang Liu , Kaiying Yan , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu , Chenxing Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing, with its advantages of rapid information acquisition and low cost, has been widely applied in scenarios such as emergency response. However, due to the long imaging distance and complex imaging…

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In recent years, learning-based Android malware detection has seen significant advancements, with detectors generally falling into three categories: string-based, image-based, and graph-based approaches. While these methods have shown…

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The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread dissemination of fake news across multiple content forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Compared to unimodal fake news detection, multimodal fake news detection benefits…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Moyang Liu , Kaiying Yan , Yukun Liu , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu , Chenxing Li

The community plays a crucial role in understanding user behavior and network characteristics in social networks. Some users can use multiple social networks at once for a variety of objectives. These users are called overlapping users who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ziqing Zhu , Guan Yuan , Tao Zhou , Jiuxin Cao

Twitter is one of the most popular social networks attracting millions of users, while a considerable proportion of online discourse is captured. It provides a simple usage framework with short messages and an efficient application…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Alexander Shevtsov , Christos Tzagkarakis , Despoina Antonakaki , Sotiris Ioannidis

Memes have become a dominant form of communication in social media in recent years. Memes are typically humorous and harmless, however there are also memes that promote hate speech, being in this way harmful to individuals and groups based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Maria Tzelepi , Vasileios Mezaris

Recent years have witnessed the sustained evolution of misinformation that aims at manipulating public opinions. Unlike traditional rumors or fake news editors who mainly rely on generated and/or counterfeited images, text and videos,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yizhou Zhang , Loc Trinh , Defu Cao , Zijun Cui , Yan Liu

Antisocial behavior (ASB) on social media -- including hate speech, harassment, and cyberbullying -- poses growing risks to platform safety and societal well-being. Prior research has focused largely on networks such as X and Reddit, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hajar Bakarou , Mohamed Sinane El Messoussi , Anaïs Ollagnier

The rapid advancement of generative models in creating highly realistic images poses substantial risks for misinformation dissemination. For instance, a synthetic image, when shared on social media, can mislead extensive audiences and erode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Zhenglin Huang , Jinwei Hu , Xiangtai Li , Yiwei He , Xingyu Zhao , Bei Peng , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaowei Huang , Guangliang Cheng

Large Language Model-driven (LLM-driven) social bots pose a growing threat to online discourse by generating human-like content that evades conventional detection. Existing methods suffer from limited detection accuracy due to overreliance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhongbo Wang , Zhiyu Lin , Zhu Wang , Haizhou Wang

The detection of offensive, hateful content on social media is a challenging problem that affects many online users on a daily basis. Hateful content is often used to target a group of people based on ethnicity, gender, religion and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Sherzod Hakimov , Gullal S. Cheema , Ralph Ewerth

Autonomous driving technology has advanced significantly, yet detecting driving anomalies remains a major challenge due to the long-tailed distribution of driving events. Existing methods primarily rely on single-modal road condition video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Long Zhouxiang , Ovanes Petrosian

As computer-generated content and deepfakes make steady improvements, semantic approaches to multimedia forensics will become more important. In this paper, we introduce a novel classification architecture for identifying semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Scott McCrae , Kehan Wang , Avideh Zakhor

Recent advancements in social bot detection have been driven by the adoption of Graph Neural Networks. The social graph, constructed from social network interactions, contains benign and bot accounts that influence each other. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yingguang Yang , Qi Wu , Buyun He , Hao Peng , Renyu Yang , Zhifeng Hao , Yong Liao

The increasing occurrence, forms, and negative effects of misinformation on social media platforms has necessitated more misinformation detection tools. Currently, work is being done addressing COVID-19 misinformation however, there are no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Peter Nabende , David Kabiito , Claire Babirye , Hewitt Tusiime , Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende

Women are influential online, especially in image-based social media such as Twitter and Instagram. However, many in the network environment contain gender discrimination and aggressive information, which magnify gender stereotypes and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Da Li , Ming Yi , Yukai He