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Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) learns models for recognizing new classes. One of the main challenges in ZSL is the domain discrepancy caused by the category inconsistency between training and testing data. Domain adaptation is the most intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Fengmao Lv , Jianyang Zhang , Guowu Yang , Lei Feng , Yufeng Yu , Lixin Duan

The focus of this work is $\textit{sign spotting}$ - given a video of an isolated sign, our task is to identify $\textit{whether}$ and $\textit{where}$ it has been signed in a continuous, co-articulated sign language video. To achieve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Samuel Albanie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to map sign language videos to spoken language text. A common approach relies on gloss annotations as an intermediate representation, decomposing SLT into two sub-tasks: video-to-gloss recognition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jianyuan Guo , Peike Li , Trevor Cohn

The objective of this work is to align asynchronous subtitles in sign language videos with limited labelled data. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel framework with the following contributions: (1) we leverage fundamental grammatical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Youngjoon Jang , Jeongsoo Choi , Junseok Ahn , Joon Son Chung

State-of-the-art sign language translation (SLT) systems facilitate the learning process through gloss annotations, either in an end2end manner or by involving an intermediate step. Unfortunately, gloss labelled sign language data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

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

Many continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) studies adopt transformer-based architectures for sequence modeling due to their powerful capacity for capturing global contexts. Nevertheless, vanilla self-attention, which serves as the…

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

Research on continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) is essential to bridge the communication gap between deaf and hearing individuals. Numerous previous studies have trained their models using the connectionist temporal classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

. Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a long challenging task in Computer Vision due to the difficulties in detecting the explicit boundaries between the words in a sign sentence. To deal with this challenge, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

Sign languages are visual languages using manual articulations and non-manual elements to convey information. For sign language recognition and translation, the majority of existing approaches directly encode RGB videos into hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yutong Chen , Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Yu Wu , Shujie Liu , Brian Mak

In this paper, we present our solution to the Cross-View Isolated Sign Language Recognition (CV-ISLR) challenge held at WWW 2025. CV-ISLR addresses a critical issue in traditional Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR), where existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Fei Wang , Kun Li , Yiqi Nie , Zhangling Duan , Peng Zou , Zhiliang Wu , Yuwei Wang , Yanyan Wei

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to interpret sign video sequences into text-based natural language sentences. Sign videos consist of continuous sequences of sign gestures with no clear boundaries in between. Existing SLT models usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dongxu Li , Chenchen Xu , Xin Yu , Kaihao Zhang , Ben Swift , Hanna Suominen , Hongdong Li

Training deep learning based video classifiers for action recognition requires a large amount of labeled videos. The labeling process is labor-intensive and time-consuming. On the other hand, large amount of weakly-labeled images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

Current weakly-supervised incremental learning for semantic segmentation (WILSS) approaches only consider replacing pixel-level annotations with image-level labels, while the training images are still from well-designed datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chang Liu , Giulia Rizzoli , Pietro Zanuttigh , Fu Li , Yi Niu

Since the superiority of Transformer in learning long-term dependency, the sign language Transformer model achieves remarkable progress in Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Translation (SLT). However, there are several issues with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pan Xie , Mengyi Zhao , Xiaohui Hu

With the rapid evolution of social media, fake news has become a significant social problem, which cannot be addressed in a timely manner using manual investigation. This has motivated numerous studies on automating fake news detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Amila Silva , Ling Luo , Shanika Karunasekera , Christopher Leckie

This work focuses on sign language retrieval-a recently proposed task for sign language understanding. Sign language retrieval consists of two sub-tasks: text-to-sign-video (T2V) retrieval and sign-video-to-text (V2T) retrieval. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yiting Cheng , Fangyun Wei , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Wenqiang Zhang

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task due to its cross-domain nature, involving the translation of visual-gestural language to text. Many previous methods employ an intermediate representation, i.e., gloss sequences, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjia Zhou , Zhigang Chen , Albert Clapés , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Sergio Escalera , Zhen Lei , Du Zhang

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

This paper studies the problem of learning semantic segmentation from image-level supervision only. Current popular solutions leverage object localization maps from classifiers as supervision signals, and struggle to make the localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Guolei Sun , Wenguan Wang , Jifeng Dai , Luc Van Gool