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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…

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) approaches primarily rely on RGB data or signer pose information. However, combining these modalities often results in the loss of crucial details, such as hand shape and orientation, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sven Schreiber , Noha Sarhan , Simone Frintrop , Christian Wilms

We aim to solve the highly challenging task of generating continuous sign language videos solely from speech segments for the first time. Recent efforts in this space have focused on generating such videos from human-annotated text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Parul Kapoor , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Sindhu B Hegde , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Chen , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Jinpeng Li , Donghao Zhou , Bian Wu , Chenyong Guan , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

The complexity of Sign Language (SL) data processing brings many challenges. The current approach to recognition of SL signs aims to translate RGB sign language videos through pose information into Word-based ID Glosses, which serve to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Chunyu Sui , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Hongwei Yi , Hezhen Hu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

In this paper, we focus on the task of one-shot sign spotting, i.e. given an example of an isolated sign (query), we want to identify whether/where this sign appears in a continuous, co-articulated sign language video (target). To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tao Jiang , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Hand gesture serves as a critical role in sign language. Current deep-learning-based sign language recognition (SLR) methods may suffer insufficient interpretability and overfitting due to limited sign data sources. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Yuechen Wang , Houqiang Li

In human interactions, hands are a powerful way of expressing information that, in some cases, can be used as a valid substitute for voice, as it happens in Sign Language. Hand gesture recognition has always been an interesting topic in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Danilo Avola , Marco Bernardi , Luigi Cinque , Gian Luca Foresti , Cristiano Massaroni

We present an attention-based model for end-to-end handwriting recognition. Our system does not require any segmentation of the input paragraph. The model is inspired by the differentiable attention models presented recently for speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Théodore Bluche , Jérôme Louradour , Ronaldo Messina

Sign languages play a crucial role in the communication of deaf communities, but they are often marginalized, limiting access to essential services such as healthcare and education. This study proposes an automatic sign language recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fraisse Sacré Takouchouang , Ho Tuong Vinh

In this paper, we propose a set of features called temporal accumulative features (TAF) for representing and recognizing isolated sign language gestures. By incorporating sign language specific constructs to better represent the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu , Oğulcan Özdemir , Lale Akarun

The people in the world who are hearing impaired face many obstacles in communication and require an interpreter to comprehend what a person is saying. There has been constant scientific research and the existing models lack the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Shubham Thakar , Samveg Shah , Bhavya Shah , Anant V. Nimkar

In the realm of multimodal communication, sign language is, and continues to be, one of the most understudied areas. In line with recent advances in the field of deep learning, there are far reaching implications and applications that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Vivek Bheda , Dianna Radpour

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Sign language is a fundamental means of communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) community, enabling nuanced expression through gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. Despite its critical role in facilitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Brettmann , Jakob Grävinghoff , Marlene Rüschoff , Marie Westhues

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

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

Sign language recognition is a challenging problem where signs are identified by simultaneous local and global articulations of multiple sources, i.e. hand shape and orientation, hand movements, body posture, and facial expressions. Solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Hacer Yalim Keles

Our aim is to develop a unified model for sign language understanding, that performs sign language translation (SLT) and sign-subtitle alignment (SSA). Together, these two tasks enable the conversion of continuous signing videos into spoken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Youngjoon Jang , Liliane Momeni , Zifan Jiang , Joon Son Chung , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

Sign Language is the dominant yet non-primary form of communication language used in the deaf and hearing-impaired community. To make an easy and mutual communication between the hearing-impaired and the hearing communities, building a…

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