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The Multimedia Lab at Singapore Management University (SMU) works on multimodal
and vision-language research, with a focus on cultural understanding across
Southeast Asia.

## Benchmarks

**Cultural Moment Benchmark (CMB): Evaluating Video Cultural Reasoning and Grounding in Southeast Asia** (EMNLP 2026)
[Website](https://culturalmoment-benchmark.github.io/) · [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23065) · [Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Multimedia-SMU/culturalmoment-benchmark)

**Seeing Culture (SCB): A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding** (EMNLP 2025)
[Website](https://seeingculture-benchmark.github.io/) · [Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1131/) · [Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Multimedia-SMU/seeingculture-benchmark)

## Other datasets

**Multilingual Image Recipe Retrieval**
[Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Multimedia-SMU/multilingual-image-recipe-retrieval)