Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region of extraordinary linguistic and cultural diversity, yet it remains significantly underrepresented in vision-language (VL) research. This often results in artificial intelligence (AI) models that fail to capture SEA cultural nuances. To fill this gap, we present SEA-VL, an open-source initiative dedicated to developing high-quality, culturally relevant data for SEA languages. By involving contributors from SEA countries, SEA-VL aims to ensure better cultural relevance and diversity, fostering greater inclusivity of underrepresented languages in VL research. Beyond crowdsourcing, our initiative goes one step further in the exploration of the automatic collection of culturally relevant images through crawling and image generation. First, we find that image crawling achieves approximately ~85% cultural relevance while being more cost- and time-efficient than crowdsourcing. Second, despite the substantial progress in generative vision models, synthetic images remain unreliable in accurately reflecting SEA cultures. The generated images often fail to reflect the nuanced traditions and cultural contexts of the region. Collectively, we gather 1.28M SEA culturally-relevant images, more than 50 times larger than other existing datasets. Through SEA-VL, we aim to bridge the representation gap in SEA, fostering the development of more inclusive AI systems that authentically represent diverse cultures across SEA.

This study presents an integrated deep learning model for automatic detection and classification of Gastrointestinal bleeding in the frames extracted from Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) videos. The dataset has been released as part of Auto-WCBleedGen Challenge Version V2 hosted by the MISAHUB team. Our model attained the highest performance among 75 teams that took part in this competition. It aims to efficiently utilizes CNN based model i.e. DenseNet and UNet to detect and segment bleeding and non-bleeding areas in the real-world complex dataset. The model achieves an impressive overall accuracy of 80% which would surely help a skilled doctor to carry out further diagnostics.