Burak Satar

Burak Satar

Research Scientist @ SMU | PhD @ NTU

Seeing Culture: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding

Published in EMNLP 2025 (Main Conference), 2025

Burak Satar*, Zhixin Ma*, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Wilfried Ariel Mulyawan, Jing Jiang, Ee-Peng Lim, Chong-Wah Ngo (* equal contribution)

A two-stage benchmark where models must first reason about a cultural artifact, then visually ground it, built across Southeast Asia.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings{satar-etal-2025-seeing,
    title = "Seeing Culture: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding",
    author = "Satar, Burak  and
      Ma, Zhixin  and
      Irawan, Patrick Amadeus  and
      Mulyawan, Wilfried Ariel  and
      Jiang, Jing  and
      Lim, Ee-Peng  and
      Ngo, Chong-Wah",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1131/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1131",
    pages = "22227--22243",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}