Jungseock Joo

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, UCLA
jjoo at comm.ucla.edu

News

We received an NSF award for a collaborative project between UCLA and Stanford! (2018-2021, $1.15M total)

RIDIR: Collaborative Research: Integrated Communication Database and Computational Tools

Social and Political Event Analysis using Rich Media
Jungseock Joo (UCLA), Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (UCLA), Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester)
http://www.acmmm.org/2018/tutorials/#SAP

I received Hellman Fellowship award for my research on fake news and misinformation!
A paper accepted by ICWSM 2018 on clickbaits on Instagram.
Our code & dataset for protest activity analysis -- github
Red Han lab published articles on computational approaches to multimodal human communication.
A paper accepted by ACM MM 2017 on protest activity analysis using social media images.
-- A feature article at The Register
Three papers were accepted by ICWSM 2017!

The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018.

Toward an Infrastructure for Data-driven Multimodal Communication Research [pdf]
Francis F Steen, Anders Hougaard, Jungseock Joo, Inés Olza, Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, Anna Pleshakova, Soumya Ray, Peter Uhrig, Javier Valenzuela, Jacek Woźny, Mark Turner
Linguistics Vanguard, 2018.
Red Hen Lab: Dataset and Tools for Multimodal Human Communication Research [pdf]
Jungseock Joo, Francis F. Steen, and Mark Turner
KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, 2018.
Protest Activity Detection and Perceived Violence Estimation from Social Media Images [pdf]
Donghyeon Won, Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld, and Jungseock Joo
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2017.
Cultural Diffusion and Trends in Facebook Photographs [pdf] [slides]
Quanzeng You, Darío García-García, Manohar Paluri, Jiebo Luo, and Jungseock Joo
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017.
Predicting Popular and Viral Image Cascades in Pinterest [pdf]
Jinyoung Han, Daejin Choi, Jungseock Joo, and Chen-Nee Chuah
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017.
Fashion Conversation Data on Instagram [pdf]
Yu-I Ha, Sejeong Kwon, Meeyoung Cha, and Jungseock Joo

The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2017.

Joint Image-Text News Topic Detection and Tracking by Multimodal Topic And-Or Graph [pdf]

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia,

Automated Facial Trait Judgment and Election Outcome Prediction: Social Dimensions of Face [pdf]
Jungseock Joo, Francis F. Steen, and Song-Chun Zhu
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.

Coiling of Elastic Rods on Rigid Substrates [pdf] [html]
Mohammad K Jawed, Fang Da, Jungseock Joo, Eitan Grinspun, and Pedro M Reis
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 111:41, 14663-14668, 2014.

Visual Persuasion: Inferring Communicative Intents of Images [pdf] [project]
Jungseock Joo, Weixin Li, Francis F. Steen, and Song-Chun Zhu
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014.
- MEDIA - Is a Picture Worth 1,000 Polls? by Virginia Postrel. Bloomberg View. June 25, 2014.

Human Attribute Recognition by Rich Appearance Dictionary [pdf]
Jungseock Joo, Shuo Wang, and Song-Chun Zhu
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013.

Weakly Supervised Learning for Attribute Localization in Outdoor Scenes [pdf]
Shuo Wang, Jungseock Joo, Yizhou Wang, and Song-Chun Zhu
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013.

Hierarchical Organization by And-Or Tree [pdf]
Jungseock Joo, Shuo Wang, and Song-Chun Zhu
Book chapter in Handbook of Perceptual Organization, eds.J. Wagemans, Springer, 2012

Teaching