@inproceedings{mallik-etal-2025-cuet,
    title = "{CUET}-823@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2025: Shared Task on Multimodal Misogyny Meme Detection in {T}amil Language",
    author = "Mallik, Arpita  and
      Dhar, Ratnajit  and
      Das, Udoy  and
      Labib, Momtazul Arefin  and
      Rahman, Samia  and
      Murad, Hasan",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Priyadharshini, Ruba  and
      Madasamy, Anand Kumar  and
      Thavareesan, Sajeetha  and
      Sherly, Elizabeth  and
      Rajiakodi, Saranya  and
      Palani, Balasubramanian  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      Cn, Subalalitha  and
      Chinnappa, Dhivya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/moar-dois/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.57/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.57",
    pages = "325--329",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-228-2",
    abstract = "Misogynous content on social media, especially in memes, present challenges due to the complex reciprocation of text and images that carry offensive messages. This difficulty mostly arises from the lack of direct alignment between modalities and biases in large-scale visio-linguistic models. In this paper, we present our system for the Shared Task on Misogyny Meme Detection - DravidianLangTech@NAACL 2025. We have implemented various unimodal models, such as mBERT and IndicBERT for text data, and ViT, ResNet, and EfficientNet for image data. Moreover, we have tried combining these models and finally adopted a multimodal approach that combined mBERT for text and EfficientNet for image features, both fine-tuned to better interpret subtle language and detailed visuals. The fused features are processed through a dense neural network for classification. Our approach achieved an F1 score of 0.78120, securing 4th place and demonstrating the potential of transformer-based architectures and state-of-the-art CNNs for this task."
}