MilaNLP at SemEval-2022 Task 5: Using Perceiver IO for Detecting Misogynous Memes with Text and Image Modalities

Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza, Federico Bianchi · Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022) · 2022

Warning: This paper contains examples of language that some people may find offensive or upsetting.In this paper, we describe the system proposed by the MilaNLP team for the Multimedia Automatic Misogyny Identification (MAMI) challenge.We use Perceiver IO as a multimodal late fusion over unimodal streams to address both sub-tasks A and B. We build unimodal embeddings using Vision Transformer (image) and RoBERTa (text transcript).We enrich the input representation using face and demographic recognition, image captioning, and detection of adult content and web entities.To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to use Perceiver IO combining text and image modalities.The proposed approach outperforms unimodal and multimodal baselines.

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