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Hand gesture recognition possesses extensive applications in virtual reality, sign language recognition, and computer games. The direct interface of hand gestures provides us a new way for communicating with the virtual environment. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni

Sign language recognition is a challenging gesture sequence recognition problem, characterized by quick and highly coarticulated motion. In this paper we focus on recognition of fingerspelling sequences in American Sign Language (ASL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Bowen Shi , Aurora Martinez Del Rio , Jonathan Keane , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

We study the problem of recognizing video sequences of fingerspelled letters in American Sign Language (ASL). Fingerspelling comprises a significant but relatively understudied part of ASL. Recognizing fingerspelling is challenging for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Taehwan Kim , Jonathan Keane , Weiran Wang , Hao Tang , Jason Riggle , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Diane Brentari , Karen Livescu

Due to the growth of the population with hearing problems, devices have been developed that facilitate the inclusion of deaf people in society, using technology as a communication tool, such as vision systems. Then, a solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rivas P. Pedro E. , Velarde-Anaya Omar , Gonzalez-Lopez Samuel , Rivas P. Pablo , Alvarez-Torres Norma Angelica

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

In this thesis, we study the problem of recognizing video sequences of fingerspelled letters in American Sign Language (ASL). Fingerspelling comprises a significant but relatively understudied part of ASL, and recognizing it is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Taehwan Kim

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

Sign(ed) languages use gestures, such as hand or head movements, for communication. Sign language recognition is an assistive technology for individuals with hearing disability and its goal is to improve such individuals' life quality by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Mohammad Eslami , Mahdi Karami , Sedigheh Eslami , Solale Tabarestani , Farah Torkamani-Azar , Christoph Meinel

Vision-based sign language recognition aims at helping deaf people to communicate with others. However, most existing sign language datasets are limited to a small number of words. Due to the limited vocabulary size, models learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dongxu Li , Cristian Rodriguez Opazo , Xin Yu , Hongdong Li

We present a method for recognition of isolated Swedish Sign Language signs. The method will be used in a game intended to help children training signing at home, as a complement to training with a teacher. The target group is not primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Saad Akram , Jonas Beskow , Hedvig Kjellstrom

We address the problem of automatic American Sign Language fingerspelling recognition from video. Prior work has largely relied on frame-level labels, hand-crafted features, or other constraints, and has been hampered by the scarcity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Bowen Shi , Karen Livescu

The need of sign language is increasing radically especially to hearing impaired community. Only few research groups try to automatically recognize sign language from video, colored gloves and etc. Their approach requires a valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-13 M. Krishnaveni , Dr. V. Radha

This research paper describes a realtime system for identifying American Sign Language (ASL) movements that employs modern computer vision and machine learning approaches. The suggested method makes use of the Mediapipe library for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ashutosh Bajpai , Ayush Sinha

Over the years, hand gesture recognition has been mostly addressed considering hand trajectories in isolation. However, in most sign languages, hand gestures are defined on a particular context (body region). We propose a pipeline to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Marc Martínez-Camarena , Jose Oramas , Mario Montagud-Climent , Tinne Tuytelaars

We present a novel framework for real-time sign language recognition using lightweight DNNs trained on limited data. Our system addresses key challenges in sign language recognition, including data scarcity, high computational costs, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Nikita Nikitin , Eugene Fomin

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

Learning fine-grained movements is a challenging topic in robotics, particularly in the context of robotic hands. One specific instance of this challenge is the acquisition of fingerspelling sign language in robots. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Biometrics systems have been used in a wide range of applications and have improved people authentication. Signature verification is one of the most common biometric methods with techniques that employ various specifications of a signature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohsen Fayyaz , Mohammad Hajizadeh_Saffar , Mohammad Sabokrou , Mahmood Fathy

Sign language, which conveys meaning through gestures, is the chief means of communication among deaf people. Recognizing sign language in natural settings presents significant challenges due to factors such as lighting, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Bowen Shi

Natural language processing for sign language video - including tasks like recognition, translation, and search - is crucial for making artificial intelligence technologies accessible to deaf individuals, and is gaining research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu