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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

Sign language recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Ozgur Kara , Ogulcan Ozdemir , Lale Akarun

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

This research explores using lightweight deep neural network architectures to enable the humanoid robot Pepper to understand American Sign Language (ASL) and facilitate non-verbal human-robot interaction. First, we introduce a lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 JongYoon Lim , Inkyu Sa , Bruce MacDonald , Ho Seok Ahn

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

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

Current sign language machine translation systems rely on recognizing hand movements, facial expressions and body postures, and natural language processing, to convert signs into text. Recent approaches use Transformer architectures to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

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

Language models for American Sign Language (ASL) could make language technologies substantially more accessible to those who sign. To train models on tasks such as isolated sign recognition (ISR) and ASL-to-English translation, datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lee Kezar , Nidhi Munikote , Zian Zeng , Zed Sehyr , Naomi Caselli , Jesse Thomason

Sign language recognition (SLR) technology has enormous promise to improve communication and accessibility for the difficulty of hearing. This paper presents a novel approach for identifying gestures in TSL using the YOLOv5 object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Vipul Reddy. P , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. B , Sukriti

Tremendous headway has been made in the field of 3D hand pose estimation but the 3D depth cameras are usually inaccessible. We propose a model to recognize American Sign Language alphabet from RGB images. Images for the training were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Nikhil Kasukurthi , Brij Rokad , Shiv Bidani , Aju Dennisan

Fingerspelling is a critical part of American Sign Language (ASL) recognition and has become an accessible optional text entry method for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) individuals. In this paper, we introduce SpellRing, a single smart ring…

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Md Hadiuzzaman , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Jungpil Shin

This paper introduces an open-source interface for American Sign Language fingerspell recognition and semantic pose retrieval, aimed to serve as a stepping stone towards more advanced sign language translation systems. Utilizing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kevin Jose Thomas

We present Large Sign Language Models (LSLM), a novel framework for translating 3D American Sign Language (ASL) by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as the backbone, which can benefit hearing-impaired individuals' virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sen Zhang , Xiaoxiao He , Di Liu , Zhaoyang Xia , Mingyu Zhao , Chaowei Tan , Vivian Li , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Mubbasir Kapadia

American Sign Language recognition is a difficult gesture recognition problem, characterized by fast, highly articulate gestures. These are comprised of arm movements with different hand shapes, facial expression and head movements. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Al Amin Hosain , Panneer Selvam Santhalingam , Parth Pathak , Huzefa Rangwala , Jana Kosecka

This paper investigates RF-based system for automatic American Sign Language (ASL) recognition. We consider radar for ASL by joint spatio-temporal preprocessing of radar returns using time frequency (TF) analysis and high-resolution receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Gavin MacLaughlin , Jack Malcolm , Syed Ali Hamza

The deaf and hard of hearing community relies on American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary mode of communication, but communication with others who do not know ASL can be difficult, especially during emergencies where no interpreter is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Janice Nguyen , Y. Curtis Wang

Progress in machine understanding of sign languages has been slow and hampered by limited data. In this paper, we present FSboard, an American Sign Language fingerspelling dataset situated in a mobile text entry use case, collected from 147…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Manfred Georg , Garrett Tanzer , Saad Hassan , Maximus Shengelia , Esha Uboweja , Sam Sepah , Sean Forbes , Thad Starner

We have come up with a research that hopes to provide a bridge between the users of American Sign Language and the users of spoken language and Indian Sign Language (ISL). The research enabled us to create a novel framework that we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Malay Kumar , S. Sarvajit Visagan , Tanish Sarang Mahajan , Anisha Natarajan