Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models Call for Papers

We are excited to announce the 

Vision Language Models For All:
Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models
(VLMs-4-All) 

workshop at CVPR 2025, 
featuring an outstanding lineup of
nine speakers. This workshop will bring together researchers to
discuss geo-diverse and culturally aware vision-language models.

We invite you to:

    Participate in our two challenges. We host two challenges on the
    recently developed CulturalVQA and GlobalRG benchmarks, where the
    former focuses on evaluating cultural understanding of VLMs, while
    the latter focuses on evaluating cultural diversity in VLMs’
    outputs. Both challenges will be hosted on Hugging Face
    challenges. The results of the challenges and winning entries will
    be presented at the workshop. Participate here:
    https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges

Start date: March 14, 2025

End date: April 15, 2025

    Submit your papers of up to 4 pages that discuss identifying
    effective evaluation tasks, benchmarks, and metrics to assess
    cultural awareness and alignment in VLMs; and new methodology for
    improving cultural awareness of AI systems. For more details see
    the Call for Papers:
    https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers.

Useful links::

    Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/

    Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers

    Challenges: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges

We encourage you to contribute and foster meaningful discussions in
this important area. Please feel free to share this with colleagues
who may be interested. We look forward to your participation.

For any workshop-related queries, please drop an email at
vlms4all@gmail.com. For inquiries about the CulturalVQA challenge,
contact culturalvqa@gmail.com. For GlobalRG-related questions, reach
out to globalrg@gmail.com.

Yours sincerely,

Workshop organizers