MUWS ’25: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media

Hakimov, Sherzod and Semedo, David and Müller-Budack, Eric and Kastner, Marc A. and Komamizu, Takahiro

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the MUWS 2025: The 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media. The workshop focuses on addressing these challenges, fostering novel solutions that explicitly model human perception, behaviour, and biases in multimodal data, with a particular emphasis on real-world challenges in web and social media analysis. This year’s edition covers two tracks: (1) human-centered multimodal understanding, such as quantifying social biases, analysing sentiment and hate speech, and modelling cross-modal interactions through interdisciplinary theories (e.g., semiotics, gestalt psychology); and (2) Multimodal understanding of global events, supported by a newly curated dataset covering news articles with diverse stances, which facilitates research on cultural framing, societal impact, and bias mitigation in vision-language models. The event features two keynotes from renowned experts from journalism and computer science, research presentations for six accepted papers, and interactive discussions to explore and discuss cutting-edge methodologies and applications in multimodal human understanding. MUWS’25 gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of workshop focus.

, 2025
[PDF]

@proceedings{Hakimov-2025-3,
  author = {Hakimov, Sherzod and Semedo, David and Müller-Budack, Eric and Kastner, Marc A. and Komamizu, Takahiro},
  title = {MUWS '25: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media},
  year = {2025},
  isbn = {9798400718380},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  location = {Ireland}
}