5 papers
ClimateVID -- Social Media Videos Analysis and Challenges Involved
Shiqi Xu, Moritz Burmester, Katharina Prasse +3
The pervasive growth of digital content, specifically short videos on social media platforms, has significantly altered how topics are discussed and understood in public discourse.…
From Codebooks to VLMs: Evaluating Automated Visual Discourse Analysis for Climate Change on Social Media
Katharina Prasse, Steffen Jung, Isaac Bravo +4
Social media platforms have become primary arenas for climate communication, generating millions of images and posts that - if systematically analysed - can reveal which communicat…
DCBM: Data-Efficient Visual Concept Bottleneck Models
Katharina Prasse, Patrick Knab, Sascha Marton +2
Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of neural networks by basing predictions on human-understandable concepts. However, current CBMs typically rely on con…
Deep Learning for Climate Action: Computer Vision Analysis of Visual Narratives on X
Katharina Prasse, Marcel Kleinmann, Inken Adam +8
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, sparking widespread discourse across social media platforms. Activists, policymakers, and researchers see…
I Spy With My Little Eye: A Minimum Cost Multicut Investigation of Dataset Frames
Katharina Prasse, Isaac Bravo, Stefanie Walter +1
Visual framing analysis is a key method in social sciences for determining common themes and concepts in a given discourse. To reduce manual effort, image clustering can significan…