MuLAD: Multimodal Aggression Detection from Social Media Memes Exploiting Visual and Textual Features

Md Maruf Hasan, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, M. Ali Akber Dewan

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Abstract

Aggression detection from memes is challenging due to their region-specific interpretation and multimodal nature. Detecting or classifying aggressive memes is complicated in low-resource languages (including Bengali) because benchmark datasets and primary language processing software are needed. This paper proposes an innovative meme classification technique that harnesses deep learning (DL) approaches to leverage memes’ visual and textual features in Bengali. Various DL frameworks, such as VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, CNN, BiLSTM, and BiLSTM+CNN, extract visual and textual features from memes. A novel corpus named the Bengali Meme Dataset (AMemD) is also introduced, comprising a substantial amount of multimodal data, including text and image components. Experimental results on AMemD demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The CNN combined with VGG16 obtained the highest f1-score of 0.738 among all multimodal techniques tested. This pioneering research offers valuable insights into the complex task of aggression detection from memes in Bengali and provides a foundation for future studies in this area. The dataset is available at https://github.com/Maruf089/Multimodal-Aggression-Detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 27th International Conference, ICPR 2024, Proceedings
EditorsApostolos Antonacopoulos, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Rama Chellappa, Cheng-Lin Liu, Saumik Bhattacharya, Umapada Pal
Pages107-123
Number of pages17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024 - Kolkata, India
Duration: 1 Dec. 20245 Dec. 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15331 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityKolkata
Period1/12/245/12/24

Keywords

  • Aggressive memes
  • Deep learning
  • Meme classification
  • Multimodal fusion
  • Natural language processing

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