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20152026
most citedMEDIC: A Multi-Task Learning Dataset for Disaster Image Classification

86 citations · 107 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

ArGuard Shared Task: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts

Firoj Alam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi +5

ArGuard is a shared task on harmful content detection in Arabic memes and LLM prompts. It includes two tracks: Track A focuses on multimodal hate detection in Arabic memes, while T…

cs.CL2026

AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat +3

Hateful memes are a growing form of multimodal online harm, where hostile intent is often conveyed through the joint interpretation of images, text, cultural references, and implic…

cs.CL2026

Adapting Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Explainable Detection of Hateful and Propagandistic Memes

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2

Hateful and propagandistic memes exploit the interplay between images and text to convey harmful intent that neither modality reveals alone. Although thinking-based multimodal larg…

cs.CL2026

Can Thinking Models Think to Detect Hateful Memes?

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Mucahid Kutlu, Ali Ezzat Shahroor +2

Hateful memes often require compositional multimodal reasoning: the image and text may appear benign in isolation, yet their interaction conveys harmful intent. Although thinking-b…

cs.AI2026

MemeLens: Multilingual Multitask VLMs for Memes

Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat +4

Memes are a dominant medium for online communication and manipulation because meaning emerges from interactions between embedded text, imagery, and cultural context. Existing meme…

cs.CL2025

MemeIntel: Explainable Detection of Propagandistic and Hateful Memes

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Abul Hasnat, Md Arid Hasan +2

The proliferation of multimodal content on social media presents significant challenges in understanding and moderating complex, context-dependent issues such as misinformation, ha…

cs.CL2024

ArMeme: Propagandistic Content in Arabic Memes

Firoj Alam, Abul Hasnat, Fatema Ahmed +2

With the rise of digital communication, memes have become a significant medium for cultural and political expression that is often used to mislead audiences. Identification of such…

cs.CV2021★ 86 cited

MEDIC: A Multi-Task Learning Dataset for Disaster Image Classification

Firoj Alam, Tanvirul Alam, Md. Arid Hasan +3

Recent research in disaster informatics demonstrates a practical and important use case of artificial intelligence to save human lives and suffering during natural disasters based…

cs.CV2017★ 20 cited

DeepVisage: Making face recognition simple yet with powerful generalization skills

Abul Hasnat, Julien Bohné, Jonathan Milgram +2

Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizi…

cs.CV2016★ 1 cited

Spectral video construction from RGB video: Application to Image Guided Neurosurgery

Md. Abul Hasnat, Jussi Parkkinen, Markku Hauta-Kasari

Spectral imaging has received enormous interest in the field of medical imaging modalities. It provides a powerful tool for the analysis of different organs and non-invasive tissue…

cs.IR2015

Opinion mining from twitter data using evolutionary multinomial mixture models

Md. Abul Hasnat, Julien Velcin, Stéphane Bonnevay +1

Image of an entity can be defined as a structured and dynamic representation which can be extracted from the opinions of a group of users or population. Automatic extraction of suc…

cs.LG2015

Simultaneous Clustering and Model Selection for Multinomial Distribution: A Comparative Study

Md. Abul Hasnat, Julien Velcin, Stéphane Bonnevay +1

In this paper, we study different discrete data clustering methods, which use the Model-Based Clustering (MBC) framework with the Multinomial distribution. Our study comprises seve…