Research연구

Publications

  1. Toward Scalable Audio Description Quality Control: A Workflow for Evaluating Human and VLM Raters
    Lana Do, Gio Jung, Juvenal Francisco Barajas, Andrew Taylor Scott, Alexander Mario Blum, Shasta Ihorn, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon
    Conditionally accepted to ASSETS 2026
  2. 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 Taylor Scott, Shasta Ihorn, Alexander Mario Blum, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon
    ICIIT 2026, Da Nang, Vietnam
  3. 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

Preprints

  1. MOSAIC: Visual Narrative Scaffolds for Reading Comprehension and Story Composition
    An authoring tool that turns stories into structured comics to support reading comprehension and story composition for autistic learners. Built at Mosaic Cognition.
    Extended abstract under review at UIST 2026
  2. 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
  3. 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
  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