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Which country are these street foods shown in the image famous for?
How old do people have to be to drink this?
The delicacy in the picture above is recommended to be eaten while the solid is
What type of medicinal things seen in the image?
Can you guess which people use this chicken tikka shown in the image?
What does the colour of the items in the image symbolize in traditional culture?
In which season is this fruit available?
What is the food whose diversity Germany is famous for and which is probably sold in a shop in the location shown in the picture.
What's one of the company that produce the item in the image in Nigeria?
Where in Africa is the image shown common?
What time of stuffed animal is made from the pictured material?
where is this colorful city?
What is the device above called?
The setting depicted in the picture above is that of
What holiday would this be?
What is this beverage called?
The cloth in this image is originated from Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana and is called?
What are the fire in the sky?
Which tree produces the fruits in the image?
what does the symbol shown in the image represent in the Ethiopian National flag?
What Musical Instrument Is It?
The one that is shown in the image is it a fish?
What is the tube made out of?
What type of dresses does the lady in the picture wearing?
What kind of activity is shown in the image?
What is the common name for the dark-colored spice in the above image in northern Nigeria?
What is the animal depicted in the picture?
WHat is the occasion for the given objects?
Who was affected by Canadian soldiers like the ones pictured here during world war 2.
In which only park in Rwanda do we find these animals?
The edible shown in the picture above is taken as /considered
Identify the alcoholic drink widely consumed in Brazil in the following photo?
What is the sweet second photo that is cultural in Brazil and characteristic in the state of Minas Gerais?
What is the orange art in the lady's hand?
What is the given object?
What season do the leaves on the table indicate this is occuring during?
How many females are there in this image?
What fantasy creature always appears in pairs with the one shown in the picture?
What holiday is associated with the treats in the image?
Which religion does this character represents?
What is the name of the crop shown on image in Kinyarwanda?
What is the typical food shown in the photo, which is a Brazilian New Year tradition?
What is the name of the food in given image?
Which animal is associated with the fruit shown in the picture in Chinese?
What form of meat is typically served with this dish?
The depicted figure in image shows rotten fruit that is used as?
What is the name of the ceremony we normally eat the item shown in the picture?
Why is the person wearing gloves?
What other soup can be used to eat the dish above in Nigeria?
What type of stew is this?
Why is this animal used as a symbol at new years eve?
What is the name of the dish depicted in the image?
What is the item in the person's hand?
Which states in Nigeria are the fruit in the above image grown in?
Does the cake shown in the picture contain alcohol?
What other dish is served as an accompaniment to the one above that is composed of flour and other ingredients?
What drink is pleasant to drink with the item in the image?
What action is the person in image doing?
What part of the item in the image do we keep?
In the northern part of China, What is the food in the picture often dipped in?
Where do you wear the cloth depicted in image?
What is the name of the day in the pictured month that falls on the day after christmas?
What is the typical food much appreciated by Brazilians shown in the photo?
Identify by the photo the Brazilian fruit that has sour characteristic flavor but is used for sweets and desserts?
Which dynasty has the most remaining buildings shown in the picture?
In what event do people in Iran typically eat the item shown in the image?
What colour is this pictured item?
What is the festival depicted by the activity shown in the picture?
What makes the pictured bottled drink different than others elsewhere?
What is a common name for the plant shown in the image?
What kind of plant is seen in the image?
What has the egg shown in the picture been soaked in?
What is the thing shown in the picture?
What is the name of the item inside the mortal ?
What does this flag symbolize for Brazilians?
Identify the foods in the image.
Why are the buildings ruined?
When is Carnival celebrated in Brazil?
What do Iranian people usually like in this picture?
In what form is the seed of the fruit in the image generally taken?
In what festival people will buy the thing shown in the picture?
What is the name of the wild version of the plant depicted in the image in Turkey?
What local name is given to the cloths tied on the waist of the figures in the image?
According to the image, which provinces homes the most vegans
What is the name of the most popular food made with this herb?
What's the name of the item placed on the plate?
Can you guess in which Indian city is this temple built?
What type of percussion instrument are the individuals playing in the image?
What is the above bread made of?
What is this creamy substance?
What is the side dish mostly served with 'misr wet' as shown in the figure?
Where the material in the picture is primarily grown?
Which Iranian province is the main producer of this product?
How many scales are there in the above art form?
What holiday do we know these people for celebrating?
What is the place name included in the name of the food which is at the bottom center of the picture?
What kind of sweets can be made from the peel of the fruit shown in the picture?
How is the type of food called?
What is this figure called by the Yoruba people of West Africa?
Identify the typical fruit of Brazilian Amazon which is today a taste of drinks and soda?

CulturalVQA

Foundation models and vision-language pre-training have notably advanced Vision Language Models (VLMs), enabling multimodal processing of visual and linguistic data. However, their performance has been typically assessed on general scene understanding - recognizing objects, attributes, and actions - rather than cultural comprehension. We introduce CulturalVQA, a visual question-answering benchmark aimed at assessing VLM's geo-diverse cultural understanding. We curate a diverse collection of 2,378 image-question pairs with 1-5 answers per question representing cultures from 11 countries across 5 continents. The questions probe understanding of various facets of culture such as clothing, food, drinks, rituals, and traditions.

Note: The answers for CulturalVQA benchmark is not publicly available. We are working on creating a competition where participants can upload their predictions and evaluate their models. Stay tuned for more updates! If you need to urgently need to evaluate please contact shravan.nayak@mila.quebec

Loading the dataset

To load and use the CulturalVQA benchmark, use the following commands:

from datasets import load_dataset

culturalvqa_dataset = load_dataset('mair-lab/CulturalVQA')

Once the dataset is loaded each instance contains the following fields:

  • u_id: A unique identifier for each image-question pair
  • image: The image data in binary format
  • question: The question pertaining to the image

Usage and License

CulturalVQA is a test-only benchmark and can be used to evaluate models. The images are scraped from the internet and are not owned by the authors. All annotations are released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Citation Information

If you are using this dataset, please cite

@inproceedings{nayak-etal-2024-benchmarking,
    title = "Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Cultural Understanding",
    author = "Nayak, Shravan  and
      Jain, Kanishk  and
      Awal, Rabiul  and
      Reddy, Siva  and
      Steenkiste, Sjoerd Van  and
      Hendricks, Lisa Anne  and
      Stanczak, Karolina  and
      Agrawal, Aishwarya",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.329",
    pages = "5769--5790"
}
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