v-HUB: A Benchmark for Video Humor Understanding from Vision and Sound (2026.acl-long)
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Zhengpeng Shi, Yanpeng Zhao, Jianqun Zhou, Yuxuan Wang, Qinrong Cui, Wei Bi, Song-Chun Zhu, Bo Zhao, Zilong Zheng
| Challenge: | Humor enriches our daily lives and appears in many forms, from jokes and cartoons to comedies and viral videos. |
| Approach: | They introduce a video humor understanding benchmark to test their ability to understand humor from visual cues. |
| Outcome: | The proposed video humor understanding benchmark is based on a collection of short videos . it features rich annotations and a study of environmental sound that can enhance humor . |
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