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Sign language translation (SLT) addresses the problem of translating information from a sign language in video to a spoken language in text. Existing studies, while showing progress, are often limited to narrow domains and/or few sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Biao Zhang , Garrett Tanzer , Orhan Firat

Sign language research has achieved significant progress due to the advances in large language models (LLMs). However, the intrinsic ability of LLMs to understand sign language, especially in multimodal contexts, remains underexplored. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Rui Zhao , Xuewen Zhong , Xiaoyun Zheng , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen

Sign language discourse is an essential mode of daily communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing people. However, research on Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) faces notable limitations, primarily due to the lack of datasets. Recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Husne Ara Rubaiyeat , Hasan Mahmud , Ahsan Habib , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Artificial agents, particularly humanoid robots, interact with their environment, objects, and people using cameras, actuators, and physical presence. Their communication methods are often pre-programmed, limiting their actions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Emotion Recognition in Conversation is a core component of affective computing, while current resources of sign language emotion datasets primarily focus on isolated sentences and lack conversational context. Models trained exclusively on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yusong Wang , Keyu Mao , Takao Obi , Minghao Shao , Kotaro Funakoshi

Sign languages, used by around 70 million Deaf individuals globally, are visual languages that convey visual and contextual information. Current methods in vision-based sign language recognition (SLR) and translation (SLT) struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuqi Liu , Wenqian Zhang , Sihan Ren , Chengyu Huang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

This project is centered around building a neural network that is able to recognize ASL letters in images, particularly within the scope of a live video feed. Initial testing results came up short of expectations when both the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kyle Boone , Ben Wurster , Seth Thao , Yu Hen Hu

An robust sign language recognition system can greatly alleviate communication barriers, particularly for people who struggle with verbal communication. This is crucial for human growth and progress as it enables the expression of thoughts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Md Shamimul Islam , A. J. M. Akhtarujjaman Joha , Md Nur Hossain , Sohaib Abdullah , Ibrahim Elwarfalli , Md Mahedi Hasan

Sign language recognition could significantly improve the user experience for d/Deaf people with the general consumer technology, such as IoT devices or videoconferencing. However, current sign language recognition architectures are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Matyáš Boháček , Zhuo Cao , Marek Hrúz

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

In this paper, a comparative experimental assessment of computer vision-based methods for sign language recognition is conducted. By implementing the most recent deep neural network methods in this field, a thorough evaluation on multiple…

We present SignCLIP, which re-purposes CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining) to project spoken language text and sign language videos, two classes of natural languages of distinct modalities, into the same space. SignCLIP is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zifan Jiang , Gerard Sant , Amit Moryossef , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich , Sarah Ebling

Previous research underscored the potential of danmaku--a text-based commenting feature on videos--in engaging hearing audiences. Yet, for many Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals, American Sign Language (ASL) takes precedence over…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Si Chen , Haocong Cheng , Jason Situ , Desirée Kirst , Suzy Su , Saumya Malhotra , Lawrence Angrave , Qi Wang , Yun Huang

Significant progress has been made recently on challenging tasks in automatic sign language understanding, such as sign language recognition, translation and production. However, these works have focused on datasets with relatively few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alvaro Budria , Laia Tarres , Gerard I. Gallego , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) is an essential communication method for individuals in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. However, existing recognition systems face significant challenges due to their reliance on single sensor approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ghadeer Alanazi , Abir Benabid

Accurate sign language understanding serves as a crucial communication channel for individuals with disabilities. Current sign language translation algorithms predominantly rely on RGB frames, which may be limited by fixed frame rates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiao Wang , Yuehang Li , Fuling Wang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Sign language is a visual language used by the deaf and dumb community to communicate. However, for most recognition methods based on monocular cameras, the recognition accuracy is low and the robustness is poor. Even if the effect is good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhiyu Long , Xingyou Liu , Jiaqi Qiao , Zhi Li

Automatic Sign Language (SL) recognition is an important task in the computer vision community. To build a robust SL recognition system, we need a considerable amount of data which is lacking particularly in Indian sign language (ISL). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Suvajit Patra , Arkadip Maitra , Megha Tiwari , K. Kumaran , Swathy Prabhu , Swami Punyeshwarananda , Soumitra Samanta

With the rapid adoption of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) across diverse applications, there is a pressing need for task-centered, high-quality training data. A key limitation of current training datasets is their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xiaoyu Lin , Aniket Ghorpade , Hansheng Zhu , Justin Qiu , Dea Rrozhani , Monica Lama , Mick Yang , Zixuan Bian , Ruohan Ren , Alan B. Hong , Jiatao Gu , Chris Callison-Burch

Sign languages serve as essential communication systems for individuals with hearing and speech impairments. However, digital linguistic dataset resources for underrepresented sign languages, such as Nepali Sign Language (NSL), remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Birat Poudel , Satyam Ghimire , Sijan Bhattarai , Saurav Bhandari , Suramya Sharma Dahal