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This study investigates the performance of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for real-time American Sign Language (ASL) recognition. Though 3D CNNs are good at spatiotemporal feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Madhumati Pol , Anvay Anturkar , Anushka Khot , Ayush Andure , Aniruddha Ghosh , Anvit Magadum , Anvay Bahadur

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

We developed an American Sign Language (ASL) learning platform in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment to facilitate immersive interaction and real-time feedback for ASL learners. We describe the first game to use an interactive teaching…

Sign languages are dynamic visual languages that involve hand gestures, in combination with non manual elements such as facial expressions. While video recordings of sign language are commonly used for education and documentation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Janna Bruner , Amit Moryossef , Lior Wolf

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging task that requires learning on both spatial and temporal dimensions of signing frame sequences. Most recent work accomplishes this by using CNN and RNN hybrid networks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ka Leong Cheng , Zhaoyang Yang , Qifeng Chen , Yu-Wing Tai

In the past decades the set of human tasks that are solved by machines was extended dramatically. From simple image classification problems researchers now move towards solving more sophisticated and vital problems, like, autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Evgeny Izutov

In this work, our goals are two fold: large-vocabulary continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), and sign language retrieval. To this end, we introduce a multi-task Transformer model, CSLR2, that is able to ingest a signing sequence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Charles Raude , K R Prajwal , Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman , Gül Varol

This work dedicates to continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), which is a weakly supervised task dealing with the recognition of continuous signs from videos, without any prior knowledge about the temporal boundaries between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Fangyun Wei , Yutong Chen

Recently, sign language researchers have turned to sign language interpreted TV broadcasts, comprising (i) a video of continuous signing and (ii) subtitles corresponding to the audio content, as a readily available and large-scale source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , K R Prajwal , Samuel Albanie , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

Sign language recognition is a difficult task, yet required for many applications in real-time speed. Using RGB cameras for recognition of sign languages is not very successful in practical situations and accurate 3D imaging requires…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Morteza Zahedi , Ali Reza Manashty

Deep learning and contactless sensing technologies have significantly advanced the automated assessment of human behaviors in healthcare. In the context of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), repetitive motor behaviors such as spinning, head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Amit Kumar Singh , Vrijendra Singh

Fingerspelling poses challenges for sign language processing due to its high-frequency motion and use for open-vocabulary terms. While prior work has studied fingerspelling recognition, there has been little attention to evaluating how well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Garrett Tanzer

For a long time, detecting hand gestures and recognizing them as letters or numbers has been a challenging task. This creates communication barriers for individuals with disabilities. This paper introduces a new dataset, the Annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Sanyam Jain

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

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) is crucial for scalable sign language technology, yet language-specific approaches limit current models. To address this, we propose a one-shot learning approach that generalises across languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Toon Vandendriessche , Mathieu De Coster , Annelies Lejon , Joni Dambre

Machine learning techniques have excelled in the automatic semantic analysis of images, reaching human-level performances on challenging benchmarks. Yet, the semantic analysis of videos remains challenging due to the significantly higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Christina Runkel , Stefan Dorenkamp , Hartmut Bauermeister , Michael Moeller

Hearing-impaired is the disability of partial or total hearing loss that causes a significant problem for communication with other people in society. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the sign languages that most commonly used language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Anthony S. Maida

Large language models have revolutionized sign language generation by automatically transforming text into high-quality sign language videos, providing accessible communication for the Deaf community. However, existing LLM-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yanchao Zhao , Jihao Zhu , Yu Liu , Weizhuo Chen , Yuling Yang , Kun Peng

Raw videos have been proven to own considerable feature redundancy where in many cases only a portion of frames can already meet the requirements for accurate recognition. In this paper, we are interested in whether such redundancy can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Wei Feng

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