We Are Humor Beings: Understanding and Predicting Visual Humor

Scenes Vocabulary The abstract scenes interface developed by Antol et al. [1] consists of 20 “deformable” humans, 31 animals in different poses, and about 100 objects that can be found in indoor scenes (e.g., couch, picture, doll, door, window, plant, fireplace) or outdoor scenes (e.g., tree, pond, sun, clouds, bench, bike, campfire, grill, skateboard). In addition to the 8 different expressions available for humans, the ability to vary the pose of a human at a fine-grained level enables these abstract scenes to effectively capture the semantics of a scene. The large clipart vocabulary (of which only a fraction is shown to a worker during creation of a scene) ensures diversity in the scenes being depicted. A subset of objects from our Abstract Scenes vocabulary is shown in Fig. 4.