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• Information Technologies Institute (ITI)

Image memes and specifically their widely known variation image macros are a special new media type that combines text with images and are used in social media to playfully or subtly express humor, irony, sarcasm and even hate. It is important to accurately retrieve image memes from social media to better capture the cultural and social aspects of...

Hate speech is a societal problem that has significantly grown through the Internet. New forms of digital content such as image memes have given rise to spread of hate using multimodal means, being far more difficult to analyse and detect compared to the unimodal case. Accurate automatic processing, analysis and understanding of this kind of conten...

Image memes and specifically their widely-known variation image macros, is a special new media type that combines text with images and is used in social media to playfully or subtly express humour, irony, sarcasm and even hate. It is important to accurately retrieve image memes from social media to better capture the cultural and social aspects of...

Multivariate time series forecasting is of great importance to many scientific disciplines and industrial sectors. The evolution of a multivariate time series depends on the dynamics of its variables and the connectivity network of causal interrelationships among them. Most of the existing time series models do not account for the causal effects am...

Multivariate time series forecasting is of great importance to many scientific disciplines and industrial sectors. The evolution of a multivariate time series depends on the dynamics of its variables and the connectivity network of causal interrelationships among them. Most of the existing time series models do not account for the causal effects am...

Estimating and analyzing the popularity of an entity is an important task for professionals in several areas, e.g., music, social media, and cinema. Furthermore, the ample availability of online data should enhance our insights into the collective consumer behavior. However, effectively modeling popularity and integrating diverse data sources are v...

Cultural products such as music tracks intend to be appreciated and recognized by a portion of the audience. However , no matter how highly recognized a song might be at the beginning of its life, its recognition will inevitably and progressively decay. The mechanism that governs this decreasing trajectory could be modelled as a forgetting curve or...

In the recent years, we have witnessed the rapid adoption of social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and their use as part of the everyday life of billions of people worldwide. Given the habit of people to use these platforms to share thoughts, daily activities and experiences it is not surprising that the amount of user gene...

Decisions on environmental topics taken today are going to have long-term consequences that will affect future generations. Young people will have to live with the consequences of these decisions and undertake special responsibilities. Moreover, as tomorrow’s decision makers, they themselves should learn how to negotiate and debate issues before fi...

The paper describes a technical demonstration of an open-source framework for monitoring, analysis and search over multiple social media platforms. The framework is intended to be a valuable tool for media intelligence professionals, as well as a framework and testbed for scientists and developers with interest in social media research.

Real world datasets often consist of data expressed through multiple modalities. Clustering such datasets is in most cases a challenging task as the involved modalities are often heterogeneous. In this paper we propose a graph-based multimodal clustering approach. The proposed approach utilizes an example relevant clustering in order to learn a mod...

This paper describes a multimodal graph-based approach to address the problem of event detection and summarization in large scale image collections. A first version of our system was presented in the Yahoo-Flickr Event Summarization Challenge of ACM Multimedia 2015 [6]. The objective of the approach is to automatically detect events within millions...

Due to the increasing popularity of social media platforms, the amount of messages (posts) related to public events, especially posts sharing multimedia content, is steadily increasing. Sharing images can contribute to a rich and live coverage of the event. Yet, despite the value and interestingness of some posts, there is a lot of spam and redunda...

The paper describes a multimodal graph-based system for addressing the Yahoo-Flickr Event Summarization Challenge of ACM Multimedia 2015. The objective is to automatically uncover structure within a collection of 100 million photos/videos in the form of detecting and identifying events, and summarizing them succinctly for consumer consumption. The...

Due to the increasing popularity of microblogging platforms, the amount of messages (posts) related to public events, especially posts encompassing multimedia content, is steadily increasing. The inclusion of images can convey much more information about the event, compared to their text, which is typically very short (e.g., tweets). Although such...