MUWS 2026 - The 5th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media
The 5th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media (MUWS), co-located with ACM Multimedia 2026 taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from November 10-14, 2026.
Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth)
- Submission deadline: July 16th, 2026
- Paper notification: August 6th, 2026
- Camera ready: August 20th, 2026
- Author registration: August 20th, 2026
- Workshop date: TBA
Workshop Overview
Multimodal human understanding and analysis are emerging research areas that include various disciplines such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech processing, human computer interaction, and multimedia.
Recent multimodal learning techniques, especially foundation models, have transformed how modalities (e.g., images, text, audio) are jointly represented. While they have shown promising performances in modelling multimodal information and their complex interactions, it is crucial to consider human behaviour and perception for many Web and social media applications. Consequently, interdisciplinary approaches that draw on social sciences, digital humanities and psychology have become increasingly important to better understand the interplay and meaning of multimodal information helping to, for example, quantify social biases and assess the applicability of models to real-world problems. Theories such as semiotics and Gestalt psychology offer insights into how signs and symbols are perceived across modalities, providing a more compelling view of multimodality and perception that can further expand computational research and multimedia applications.
The goal of the Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media (MUWS) 2026 is to foster research on such emerging and interdisciplinary challenges related to social bias analyses, human-centered multimodal representation learning, detection of human impressions or sentiment, hate speech, sarcasm in multimodal data, multimodal rhetoric, semantics etc. The MUWS workshop will be an interactive event and include keynotes by relevant experts, poster and demo sessions, research presentations and discussion.