Zory/gaze-referent-stimuli

Vision-Language Models Mistake Head Orientation for Gaze Direction: Nonverbal Conversation Cues

Accepted by ACL 2026

• Project Webpage: https://zoryzhang.github.io/gaze/
• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05412
• OSF Preregistration: https://osf.io/v8kdf
• Analysis Code: https://github.com/zoryzhang/referential-gaze

Site0 maps to pilot stimuli; SiteB and SiteH map to two physical locations for main study stimuli. Only the latter controlled head orientation.

If you find our work helpful for your research, please cite as follows :)

@inproceedings{vlmGaze2026,
  title={Vision-Language Models Mistake Head Orientation for Gaze Direction: Nonverbal Conversation Cues},
  author={Zhang, Zory and Feng, Pinyuan and Wang, Bingyang and Zhao, Tianwei and Yu, Suyang and Gao, Qingying and Deng, Hokin and Ma, Ziqiao and Li, Yijiang and Luo, Dezhi},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year={2026},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05412},
}