2025
Do Multimodal Large Language Models Truly See What We Point At? Investigating Indexical, Iconic, and Symbolic Gesture Comprehension
ACL 2025short
Understanding hand gestures is essential for human communication, yet it remains unclear how well multimodal large language models (MLLMs) comprehend them. In this paper, we examine MLLMs’ ability to interpret indexical gestures, which require external referential grounding, in comparison to iconic…