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In this paper, we present an efficient method to incrementally learn to classify static hand gestures. This method allows users to teach a robot to recognize new symbols in an incremental manner. Contrary to other works which use special…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Xavier Cucurull , Anaís Garrell

Fingerspelling poses challenges for sign language processing due to its high-frequency motion and use for open-vocabulary terms. While prior work has studied fingerspelling recognition, there has been little attention to evaluating how well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Garrett Tanzer

Sign languages are multi-channel languages that communicate information through not just the hands (manual signals) but also facial expressions and upper body movements (non-manual signals). However, since automatic sign language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jung-Ho Kim , Mathew Huerta-Enochian , Changyong Ko , Du Hui Lee

Sign language segmentation is a crucial task in sign language processing systems. It enables downstream tasks such as sign recognition, transcription, and machine translation. In this work, we consider two kinds of segmentation:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amit Moryossef , Zifan Jiang , Mathias Müller , Sarah Ebling , Yoav Goldberg

Sign language translation is one of the important issues in communication between deaf and hearing people, as it expresses words through hand, body, and mouth movements. American Sign Language is one of the sign languages used, one of which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Gregorius Guntur Sunardi Putra , Adifa Widyadhani Chanda D'Layla , Dimas Wahono , Riyanarto Sarno , Agus Tri Haryono

Sign language is a visual language expressed through hand movements and non-manual markers. Non-manual markers include facial expressions and head movements. These expressions vary across different nations. Therefore, specialized analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yui Tatsumi , Shoko Tanaka , Shunsuke Akamatsu , Takahiro Shindo , Hiroshi Watanabe

In this work, we propose a gesture based language to allow humans to interact with robots using their body in a natural way. We have created a new gesture detection model using neural networks and a custom dataset of humans performing a set…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Javier Laplaza , Joan Jaume Oliver , Ramón Romero , Alberto Sanfeliu , Anaís Garrell

Systems that can efficiently search collections of sign language videos have been highlighted as a useful application of sign language technology. However, the problem of searching videos beyond individual keywords has received limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Amanda Duarte , Samuel Albanie , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Gül Varol

We address the problem of American Sign Language fingerspelling recognition in the wild, using videos collected from websites. We introduce the largest data set available so far for the problem of fingerspelling recognition, and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Bowen Shi , Aurora Martinez Del Rio , Jonathan Keane , Jonathan Michaux , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

The primary concern of this research is to take American Sign Language (ASL) data through real time camera footage and be able to convert the data and information into text. Adding to that, we are also putting focus on creating a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hasnat Jamil Bhuiyan , Mubtasim Fuad Mozumder , Md. Rabiul Islam Khan , Md. Sabbir Ahmed , Nabuat Zaman Nahim

The recognition of sign language is a challenging task with an important role in society to facilitate the communication of deaf persons. We propose a new approach of Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network to sign language recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Cleison Correia de Amorim , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin

Historically, sign language machine translation has been posed as a sentence-level task: datasets consisting of continuous narratives are chopped up and presented to the model as isolated clips. In this work, we explore the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Garrett Tanzer , Maximus Shengelia , Ken Harrenstien , David Uthus

People with vocal and hearing disabilities use sign language to express themselves using visual gestures and signs. Although sign language is a solution for communication difficulties faced by deaf people, there are still problems as most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mallikharjuna Rao K , Harleen Kaur , Sanjam Kaur Bedi , M A Lekhana

People with speech and hearing impairments often rely on sign language to communicate with others but most of the general population cannot understand sign language and sign language itself is a difficult language to learn, so there is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Sai Charan Bodda , Palki Gupta , Gaurav Joshi , Ayush Chaturvedi

Researches on signed languages still strongly dissociate lin- guistic issues related on phonological and phonetic aspects, and gesture studies for recognition and synthesis purposes. This paper focuses on the imbrication of motion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Sylvie Gibet , Pierre-François Marteau , Kyle Duarte

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to translate sign videos into spoken language. Inspired by the strong translation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) that are trained on extensive multilingual text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jia Gong , Lin Geng Foo , Yixuan He , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

Achieving expressive 3D motion reconstruction and automatic generation for isolated sign words can be challenging, due to the lack of real-world 3D sign-word data, the complex nuances of signing motions, and the cross-modal understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Lu Dong , Lipisha Chaudhary , Fei Xu , Xiao Wang , Mason Lary , Ifeoma Nwogu

Translating spoken languages into Sign languages is necessary for open communication between the hearing and hearing-impaired communities. To achieve this goal, we propose the first method for animating a text written in HamNoSys, a lexical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Rotem Shalev-Arkushin , Amit Moryossef , Ohad Fried

New deep-learning architectures are created every year, achieving state-of-the-art results in image recognition and leading to the belief that, in a few years, complex tasks such as sign language translation will be considerably easier,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Alvaro Leandro Cavalcante Carneiro , Lucas de Brito Silva , Denis Henrique Pinheiro Salvadeo