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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

Searching for unfamiliar American Sign Language (ASL) signs is challenging for learners because, unlike spoken languages, they cannot type a text-based query to look up an unfamiliar sign. Advances in isolated sign recognition have enabled…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Saad Hassan , Matyas Bohacek , Chaelin Kim , Denise Crochet

Sign language recognition (SLR) refers to interpreting sign language glosses from given videos automatically. This research area presents a complex challenge in computer vision because of the rapid and intricate movements inherent in sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Muxin Pu , Mei Kuan Lim , Chun Yong Chong

Sign language recognition is crucial for individuals with hearing impairments to break communication barriers. However, previous approaches have had to choose between efficiency and accuracy. Such as RNNs, LSTMs, and GCNs, had problems with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Tinh Nguyen , Minh Khue Phan Tran

With the recent advancements in intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), their popularity is rapidly increasing when it comes to utilizing Automatic Speech Recognition within households. In this study, we used a Wizard-of-Oz methodology to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Nina Tran , Paige DeVries , Matthew Seita , Raja Kushalnagar , Abraham Glasser , Christian Vogler

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

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

Machine learning models fundamentally rely on large quantities of high-quality data. Collecting the necessary data for these models can be challenging due to cost, scarcity, and privacy restrictions. Signed languages are visual languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Harry Walsh , Maksym Ivashechkin , Richard Bowden

We introduce a goal-oriented conversational AI system enhanced with American Sign Language (ASL) instructions, presenting the first implementation of such a system on a worldwide multimodal conversational AI platform. Accessible through a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Mert İnan , Katherine Atwell , Anthony Sicilia , Lorna Quandt , Malihe Alikhani

Recent advances in tracking sensors and pose estimation software enable smart systems to use trajectories of skeleton joint locations for supervised learning. We study the problem of accurately recognizing sign language words, which is key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Joachim Gudmundsson , Martin P. Seybold , John Pfeifer

Sign languages are visual languages which convey information by signers' handshape, facial expression, body movement, and so forth. Due to the inherent restriction of combinations of these visual ingredients, there exist a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

There have been recent advances in computer-based recognition of isolated, citation-form signs from video. There are many challenges for such a task, not least the naturally occurring inter- and intra- signer synchronic variation in sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Carol Neidle

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

Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communication barriers in critical settings. Sign languages present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Phoebe Chua , Cathy Mengying Fang , Takehiko Ohkawa , Raja Kushalnagar , Suranga Nanayakkara , Pattie Maes

Sign language recognition involves modeling complex multichannel information, such as hand shapes and movements while relying on sufficient sign language-specific data. However, sign languages are often under-resourced, posing a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hossein Ranjbar , Alireza Taheri

Effective communication is paramount for the inclusion of deaf individuals in society. However, persistent communication barriers due to limited Sign Language (SL) knowledge hinder their full participation. In this context, Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Carlos Eduardo G. R. Alves , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Thiago M. Paixão

Sign language recognition and translation technologies have the potential to increase access and inclusion of deaf signing communities, but research progress is bottlenecked by a lack of representative data. We introduce a new resource for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lee Kezar , Elana Pontecorvo , Adele Daniels , Connor Baer , Ruth Ferster , Lauren Berger , Jesse Thomason , Zed Sevcikova Sehyr , Naomi Caselli

As part of the development of an educational tool that can help students achieve fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) through independent and interactive practice with immediate feedback, this paper introduces a near real-time system to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Elahe Vahdani , Longlong Jing , Yingli Tian , Matt Huenerfauth

Communication barriers pose significant challenges for individuals with hearing and speech impairments, often limiting their ability to effectively interact in everyday environments. This project introduces a real-time assistive technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Brandone Fonya , Clarence Worrell

We present SignAvatars, the first large-scale, multi-prompt 3D sign language (SL) motion dataset designed to bridge the communication gap for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. While there has been an exponentially growing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengdi Yu , Shaoli Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Tolga Birdal