The Multimedia Lab at Singapore Management University (SMU) works on multimodal and vision-language research, with a focus on cultural understanding across Southeast Asia.
Cultural Moment Benchmark (CMB): Evaluating Video Cultural Reasoning and Grounding in Southeast Asia (EMNLP 2026) Website · Paper · Dataset
Seeing Culture (SCB): A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding (EMNLP 2025) Website · Paper · Dataset
Multilingual Image Recipe Retrieval Dataset