Culture

• Conducting research on generating culturally aware image captions by adding cultural elements to existing image captions 

• Extracting cultural elements from images through Visual Question Answering (VQA) and generating final culturally aware captions using LLM 

Outcome

• IJCAI 2024 Accepted - Youngsik Yun, and Jihie Kim. "CIC: A framework for Cultually-aware Image Captioning" 

• NAACL 2025 Accepted - Suchae Jung, Inseong Choi, Youngsik Yun, and Jihie Kim. "Culture-TRIP: Culturally-Aware Text-to-Image Generation with Iterative Prompt Refinement"