Viet Cultural VQA: 119,012 Bilingual Pairs Across 12 Heritage Categories

VoTruongDanh released this dataset in March 2026, providing 28,505 images and 119,012 bilingual question-answer pairs focused on Vietnamese cultural heritage. The collection spans 12 distinct categories including architecture, cuisine, traditional clothing, and festivals.

Use Cases

• Training VQA models to answer questions about Vietnamese architecture and cuisine
• Evaluating bilingual (VI/EN) performance on cultural-specific visual tasks
• Fine-tuning image classification models for 12 Vietnamese cultural categories

Strengths

• 119,012 bilingual question-answer pairs in Vietnamese and English
• 28,505 images across 12 specific cultural categories
• Includes niche cultural labels like traditional games and handicrafts

Limitations

• Geographic focus is restricted to Vietnam
• Source of images and annotation method is not specified in the metadata

Provenance

Source

Arxiv 2511.09058

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Vietnam