Creativity is core to being human. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)—including powerful
large language models (LLMs)—holds promise for humans to be more creative by offering …

AI plays a crucial role in the global cultural ecosystem. It recommends what we should see,
listen to, read, and buy. It determines how many people will see our shared content. It helps …

Understanding visual interestingness is a challenging task addressed by researchers in
various disciplines ranging from humanities and psychology to, more recently, computer …

We develop a novel visual model which can recognize protesters, describe their activities by
visual attributes and estimate the level of perceived violence in an image. Studies of social …

Micro-videos, a new form of user generated contents (UGCs), are gaining increasing
enthusiasm. Popular micro-videos have enormous commercial potential in many ways, such …

We introduce the novel problem of automatically generating animated GIFs from video. GIFs
are short looping video with no sound, and a perfect combination between image and video …

Recently, a prevailing trend of user generated content (UGC) on social media sites is the
emerging micro-videos. Microvideos afford many potential opportunities ranging from …

Every culture and language is unique. Our work expressly focuses on the uniqueness of
culture and language in relation to human affect, specifically sentiment and emotion …

Micro-videos have rapidly become one of the most dominant trends in the era of social
media. Accordingly, how to organize them draws our attention. Distinct from the traditional …

Thumbnails play such an important role in online videos. As the most representative
snapshot, they capture the essence of a video and provide the first impression to the …