Shang-Wei Liu

TaiwanVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Cultural Understanding in Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with culturally specific content — a challenge largely overlooked by existing benchmarks that focus on dominant languages and globalized datasets. We introduce TᴀɪᴡᴀɴVQA, a VQA benchmark designed for Taiwanese culture to evaluate recognition and reasonin…