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Advancing Vehicle Plate Recognition: Multitasking Visual Language Models with VehiclePaliGemma
Nouar AlDahoul, Myles Joshua Toledo Tan, Raghava Reddy Tera +4
License plate recognition (LPR) involves automated systems that utilize cameras and computer vision to read vehicle license plates. Such plates collected through LPR can then be co…
The GAIUS Experience: Powering a Hyperlocal Mobile Web for Communities in Emerging Regions
Rohail Asim, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Arko Chatterjee +3
Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in developing regions, mobile users continue to experience a poor web experience due to two key factors: (i) lack of locally relevant…
Challenges and Opportunities for Global Cellular Connectivity
Viktoria Vomhoff, Hyunseok Daniel Jang, Matteo Varvello +4
Traditional cellular service was designed for global connectivity, but business and logistical constraints led to its fragmentation, with deployments limited to individual countrie…
Analyzing political stances on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. election
Hazem Ibrahim, Farhan Khan, Hend Alabdouli +4
Social media platforms play a pivotal role in shaping public opinion and amplifying political discourse, particularly during elections. However, the same dynamics that foster democ…
Advancing Content Moderation: Evaluating Large Language Models for Detecting Sensitive Content Across Text, Images, and Videos
Nouar AlDahoul, Myles Joshua Toledo Tan, Harishwar Reddy Kasireddy +1
The widespread dissemination of hate speech, harassment, harmful and sexual content, and violence across websites and media platforms presents substantial challenges and provokes w…
Exploring Vision Language Models for Facial Attribute Recognition: Emotion, Race, Gender, and Age
Nouar AlDahoul, Myles Joshua Toledo Tan, Harishwar Reddy Kasireddy +1
Technologies for recognizing facial attributes like race, gender, age, and emotion have several applications, such as surveillance, advertising content, sentiment analysis, and the…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Racial and Gender Bias in New York Times and Fox News Images and Articles
Hazem Ibrahim, Nouar AlDahoul, Syed Mustafa Ali Abbasi +3
The manner in which different racial and gender groups are portrayed in news coverage plays a large role in shaping public opinion. As such, understanding how such groups are portr…
Multitask Mayhem: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Gaps in LLMs Fine-tuning
Essa Jan, Nouar AlDahoul, Moiz Ali +3
Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their adoption across a wide range of tasks, ranging from code generation to machine translation and sentiment anal…
Unraveling the Airalo Ecosystem
Hyunseok Daniel Jang, Matteo Varvello, Andra Lutu +1
In recent years, we have witnessed myriad flavours of Mobile Network Aggregators (MNAs) which exploit the coverage footprint of a handful of base operators to provide global mobile…
SONIC: Connect the Unconnected via FM Radio & SMS
Ayush Pandey, Rohail Asim, Khalid Mengal +2
As of 2022, about 2.78 billion people in developing countries do not have access to the Internet. Lack of Internet access hinders economic growth, educational opportunities, and ac…
Self-Reflection Makes Large Language Models Safer, Less Biased, and Ideologically Neutral
Fengyuan Liu, Nouar AlDahoul, Gregory Eady +2
Previous studies proposed that the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) can be improved through self-reflection, i.e., letting LLMs reflect on their own output to…
Inclusive content reduces racial and gender biases, yet non-inclusive content dominates popular culture
Nouar AlDahoul, Hazem Ibrahim, Minsu Park +2
Images are often termed as representations of perceived reality. As such, racial and gender biases in popular culture and visual media could play a critical role in shaping people'…
A Novel BERT-based Classifier to Detect Political Leaning of YouTube Videos based on their Titles
Nouar AlDahoul, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki
A quarter of US adults regularly get their news from YouTube. Yet, despite the massive political content available on the platform, to date no classifier has been proposed to ident…
Google Scholar is manipulatable
Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Yasir Zaki +1
Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be incentivized to inflate their citation counts. While previous literature has examined self-cit…
AI-generated faces influence gender stereotypes and racial homogenization
Nouar AlDahoul, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki
Text-to-image generative AI models such as Stable Diffusion are used daily by millions worldwide. However, the extent to which these models exhibit racial and gender stereotypes is…