National University of Singapore

Budaya Lab

Computational methods for documenting and analyzing cultural heritage in Southeast Asia.

Our projects Join the lab

Projects

The Jawi AI Project

AI tools for reading, searching and analysing historical Malay documents in Jawi script.

Video Segmentation for Intangible Cultural Heritage

Segmenting recordings of performances into meaningful actions, with Wayang Kulit as a case study.

Computational Social Simulations for Cultural Policy

Using LLMs to simulate how different communities might respond to heritage policies.

Code, models and data

We release our code on GitHub and our models and datasets on Hugging Face, with licences and usage terms agreed with the communities and archives we work with.

GitHub ↗

Source code for our papers and tools.

Hugging Face ↗

Trained models and datasets, grouped by project.