5 papers
MINDS: A Cross-cultural Dialogue Corpus for Social Norm Classification and Adherence Detection
Pritish Sahu, Anirudh Som, Dimitra Vergyri +1
Social norms are implicit, culturally grounded expectations that guide interpersonal communication. Unlike factual commonsense, norm reasoning is subjective, context-dependent, and…
Punching Bag vs. Punching Person: Motion Transferability in Videos
Raiyaan Abdullah, Jared Claypoole, Michael Cogswell +2
Action recognition models demonstrate strong generalization, but can they effectively transfer high-level motion concepts across diverse contexts, even within similar distributions…
The Influence of Text Variation on User Engagement in Cross-Platform Content Sharing
Yibo Hu, Yiqiao Jin, Meng Ye +2
In today's cross-platform social media landscape, understanding factors that drive engagement for multimodal content, especially text paired with visuals, remains complex. This stu…
A Video is Worth 10,000 Words: Training and Benchmarking with Diverse Captions for Better Long Video Retrieval
Matthew Gwilliam, Michael Cogswell, Meng Ye +3
Existing long video retrieval systems are trained and tested in the paragraph-to-video retrieval regime, where every long video is described by a single long paragraph. This neglec…
Pelican: Correcting Hallucination in Vision-LLMs via Claim Decomposition and Program of Thought Verification
Pritish Sahu, Karan Sikka, Ajay Divakaran
Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) struggle with hallucinations in visual instruction following task(s), limiting their trustworthiness and real-world applicability. We propose P…