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Climate Visions at WACV25

• Katharina Prasse
• Climate change , Clustering , Visual frames

We presented our paper “I Spy With My Little Eye: A Minimum Cost Multicut Investigation of Dataset Frames” which was a joint work by Katharina Prasse, Isaac Bravo, Stefanie Walter, and Margret Keuper. The paper can be found here.

Our work was accepted to WACV25: Applications Track

• Katharina Prasse
• Climate change , Clustering , Visual frames

We are looking forward to present our automatic visual frame detection method at the Winter Conference for Computer Vision Applications in Tucson, Arizona, USA. In this work we phrase clustering as a minimum-cost multicut problem and argue for its use in visual frame detection. We show its merit on 2 toy dataset and on real-life X (formerly Twitter) images.

C3DS Seminar Explores Visual Framing of Climate Change Imagery on Twitter

• Isaac Bravo
• Climate change , Network

The Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) hosted a seminar on June 26th, 2024, featuring Isaac Bravo from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Bravo presented his research on the “Visual Framing of Climate Change Imagery on Twitter.” The hybrid seminar was held both in person at the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus and online via Zoom. Bravo’s research delves into how the framing of climate change imagery on social media platforms like Twitter influences people’s emotional engagement with the issue.

CCVision Network Meeting at C3DS in Exeter

• Katharina Prasse
• Climate change , Network

It was great to discuss climate change from various perspective with a network of like-minded scholars. Thank you to the organizers (Claire Banwell) and all attendees for the inspiring discussions! We are looking forward to next year. Photo credits to Veronica White.

Climate Visions at COMPTEXT 2024

• Katharina Prasse
• Climate change , Workshop , Text analysis

We are looking forward to partaking in the Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (COMPTEXT) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 2-4, 2024. COMPTEXT is an international community of quantitative text analysis and computational social science scholars in political science, international relations and beyond. COMPTEXT 2024 in Amsterdam follows in the footsteps of previous conferences in Budapest (2018), Tokyo (2019) and Innsbruck (online, 2020), Dublin (2022), and Glasgow (2023).

Science meets Journalism workshop

• Isaac Bravo
• Workshop , Science communication

At the convergence of journalism and science lies the opportunity to revolutionise communication on artificial intelligence and other relevant topics. At a workshop on 18 January 2024, Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Technical University of Munich, together with representatives from media and other universities, met to explore the synergies between these two fields. The purpose? To present AI projects, models and methodologies adapted to journalistic use cases, in order to raise the quality and impact of information on the development of artificial intelligence and science.

We are accepted to give a speech at AISCICOMM24

• Katharina Prasse
• Computer vision , Manipulation detection , Science communication , Text analysis

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been accepted to speak at AISCICOMM24 in Zurich.

Our talk will focus on the fascinating topic of image manipulation in climate change images shared on social media. Join us as we delve into the complexities of this issue and explore its implications for our understanding of climate change. Stay tuned for more updates, and mark your calendars for this enlightening discussion!

Poster presentation at NeurIPS Workshop

• Katharina Prasse
• Dataset , Computer vision , Classification

We were accepted to present datasets consisting of climate change images shared on X (formerly Twitter) at climatechangeai’s workshop at NeurIPS 2023.

Presentation at the EUFeels Workshop: Emotions in European Climate Politics

• Isaac Bravo
• Climate change , Workshop , Science communication

Isaac Bravo (M.Sc) attended a workshop on Emotions in European climate politics. The workshop was hosted by the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, which had a focus on emotions and affective dynamics in European climate change politics, including the role of the EU in these debates, and Europe in a global context.

Climate Change Visuals Workshop at the Technical University of Munich

• Isaac Bravo
• Workshop , Science communication

Climate Vision Project, on behalf of Stefanie Walter, PhD (Technical University of Munich), hosted this workshop along with Prof. Dr Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zurich) on 12 June 2023. The workshop discussed the state of the research field that analyzes climate change visuals, how computational approaches can help in the study of climate change imagery, the respective methods of data acquisition and analyses, and the specifics of collaboration between the social and computer sciences.