Papers by Burak Satar
Seeing Culture: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding (2025.emnlp-main)
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Burak Satar, Zhixin Ma, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Wilfried Ariel Mulyawan, Jing Jiang, Ee-Peng Lim, Chong-Wah Ngo
| Challenge: | Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in cultural understanding tasks . but these datasets often fall short of providing cultural reasoning while underrepresenting many cultures. |
| Approach: | They propose a Seeing Culture Benchmark that requires VLMs to reason on culturally rich images in two stages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach requires VLMs to reason on culturally rich images in two stages . the Seeing Culture Benchmark identifies cultural reasoning shortcomings in multimodal models . |