We are Humor Beings: Understanding and Predicting Visual Humor

• Published in: 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) pp. 4603 - 4612
• Main Authors: Chandrasekaran, Arjun, Vijayakumar, Ashwin K., Antol, Stanislaw, Bansal, Mohit, Batra, Dhruv, Zitnick, C. Lawrence, Parikh, Devi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computational modeling; Context; Dogs; Semantics; Visualization; Vocabulary

Humor is an integral part of human lives. Despite being tremendously impactful, it is perhaps surprising that we do not have a detailed understanding of humor yet. As interactions between humans and AI systems increase, it is imperative that these systems are taught to understand subtleties of human...