Publications

Publications

  1. Beyond Lexical Overlap: Validating Semantic Similarity Metrics for LLM-Based Video Caption Augmentation
    Juvenal Francisco Barajas*, Gio Jung*, Manali Seth, Lana Do, Malleeswari Jagabattuni, Andrew Scott, Shasta Ihorn, Alexander Mario Blum, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon
    In press at ICIIT, 2026
  2. Using Item-Response Theory to Disentangle Local vs. Global Processing Dispositions in Autistic Cognition: Comparing Multi-Modal Comics vs. Text-Based Narratives in a Randomized Study
    Alexander Mario Blum, James M. Mason, Robin C. Irey, Yukie Toyama, Yunting Liu, Gio Jung, Andrew Scott, JinHo Kim, David Pearson
    Discourse Processes Journal
    DOI

Preprints

  1. Making AI Drafts Count: A Quality Threshold in Audio Description Workflows
    Lana Do, Shasta Ihorn, Charity M. Pitcher-Cooper, Sanjay Mirani, Gio Jung, Hyunjoo Shim, Zhenzhen Qin, Kien T. Nguyen, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon
    arXiv
  2. ADx3: A Collaborative Workflow for High-Quality Accessible Audio Description
    Lana Do, Shasta Ihorn, Charity Pitcher-Cooper, Juvenal Francisco Barajas, Gio Jung, Xuan Duy Anh Nguyen, Sanjay Mirani, Ilmi Yoon
    arXiv
  3. Toward Scalable Audio Description Quality Control: A Workflow for Evaluating Human and VLM Raters
    Lana Do, Gio Jung, Juvenal Francisco Barajas, Andrew Scott, Shasta Ihorn, Vassilis Athitsos, Alexander Mario Blum, Ilmi Yoon
    arXiv
  4. Evaluation of Vision Language Models with Item Response Theory
    Andrew Scott, Gio Jung, Alexander Mario Blum, Juvenal Francisco Barajas, Manali Seth, Shasta Ihorn, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon