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# UBC Vision and Language

A shared space for [Computer Vision](https://vision.cs.ubc.ca) and [NLP](http://nlp.cs.ubc.ca) labs at UBC.

## 📖 Recent Works:

**Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events** \
Aditya Chinchure\*, Sahithya Ravi\*, Raymond Ng, Vered Shwartz, Boyang Li, Leonid Sigal (\* equal) \
_Accepted at CVPR 2025_ \
[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05725) | [Website](https://blackswan.cs.ubc.ca)

**From Local Concepts to Universals: Evaluating the Multicultural Understanding of Vision-Language Models** \
Mehar Bhatia, Sahithya Ravi\*, Aditya Chinchure\*, Eunjeong Hwang, Vered Shwartz (\* equal) \
_Accepted at EMNLP 2024_ \
[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00263) | [Website](https://globalrg.github.io)