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In this work we present SignIT, a new dataset to study the task of Italian Sign Language (LIS) recognition. The dataset is composed of 644 videos covering 3.33 hours. We manually annotated videos considering a taxonomy of 94 distinct sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Alessia Micieli , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Francesco Ragusa

Historically, sign language machine translation has been posed as a sentence-level task: datasets consisting of continuous narratives are chopped up and presented to the model as isolated clips. In this work, we explore the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Garrett Tanzer , Maximus Shengelia , Ken Harrenstien , David Uthus

Many technologies for human-computer interaction have been designed for hearing individuals and depend upon vocalized speech, precluding users of American Sign Language (ASL) in the Deaf community from benefiting from these advancements.…

Sign languages are the primary means of communication for many hard-of-hearing people worldwide. Recently, to bridge the communication gap between the hard-of-hearing community and the rest of the population, several sign language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Abhinav Joshi , Susmit Agrawal , Ashutosh Modi

This research combines MediaPipe and CNNs for the efficient and accurate interpretation of ASL dataset for the real-time detection of sign language. The system presented here captures and processes hands' gestures in real time. the intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Aditya Raj Verma , Gagandeep Singh , Karnim Meghwal , Banawath Ramji , Praveen Kumar Dadheech

This study explores integrating sign language into virtual reality (VR) by examining the comprehensibility and user experience of viewing American Sign Language (ASL) videos captured with body-mounted 360-degree cameras. Ten participants…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Gauri Umesh Rajmane , Ziming Li , Tae Oh , Roshan Peiris

Sign language translation from video to spoken text presents unique challenges owing to the distinct grammar, expression nuances, and high variation of visual appearance across different speakers and contexts. The intermediate gloss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Pooya Fayyazsanavi , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Jana Košecká

A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 M. Madhiarasan , Partha Pratim Roy

Automatic Sign Language Translation requires the integration of both computer vision and natural language processing to effectively bridge the communication gap between sign and spoken languages. However, the deficiency in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ryan Wong , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language helps people with Speaking and Hearing Disabilities communicate with others efficiently. Sign Language identification is a challenging area in the field of computer vision and recent developments have been able to achieve near…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yugam Bajaj , Puru Malhotra

In this paper, we propose a dual-condition diffusion pre-training model named SignDiff that can generate human sign language speakers from a skeleton pose. SignDiff has a novel Frame Reinforcement Network called FR-Net, similar to dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chunyu Sui , Yanghao Zhou , Xuedong Zhang , Hongbin Zhong , Yapeng Tian , Chen Chen

Sign(ed) languages use gestures, such as hand or head movements, for communication. Sign language recognition is an assistive technology for individuals with hearing disability and its goal is to improve such individuals' life quality by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Mohammad Eslami , Mahdi Karami , Sedigheh Eslami , Solale Tabarestani , Farah Torkamani-Azar , Christoph Meinel

Sign spotting, the task of identifying and localizing individual signs within continuous sign language video, plays a pivotal role in scaling dataset annotations and addressing the severe data scarcity issue in sign language translation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation (SLT) is an active field of study that encompasses human-computer interaction, computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. Progress on this field could lead to higher levels of integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Pedro Dal Bianco , Gastón Ríos , Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Quiroga , Oscar Stanchi , Waldo Hasperué , Alejandro Rosete

One of the main challenges of the sign language recognition task is the difficulty of collecting a suitable dataset due to the gap between hard-of-hearing and hearing societies. In addition, the sign language in each country differs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Alexander Kapitanov , Karina Kvanchiani , Alexander Nagaev , Elizaveta Petrova

A primary challenge for the deaf and hearing-impaired community stems from the communication gap with the hearing society, which can greatly impact their daily lives and result in social exclusion. To foster inclusivity in society, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Elisa Cabana

Since American Sign Language (ASL) has no standard written form, Deaf signers frequently share videos in order to communicate in their native language. However, since both hands and face convey critical linguistic information in signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhaoyang Xia , Carol Neidle , Dimitris N. Metaxas

This works aims to design a statistical machine translation from English text to American Sign Language (ASL). The system is based on Moses tool with some modifications and the results are synthesized through a 3D avatar for interpretation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-12-02 Achraf Othman , Mohamed Jemni

In this paper, we propose SignLLM, a multilingual Sign Language Production (SLP) large language model, which includes two novel multilingual SLP modes MLSF and Prompt2LangGloss that allow sign language gestures generation from query texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chen Chen , Lei Wang , Ce Zheng , Chunyu Sui , Yapeng Tian

In this research, we present our findings to recognize American Sign Language from series of hand gestures. While most researches in literature focus only on static handshapes, our work target dynamic hand gestures. Since dynamic signs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Nguyen Huu Phong , Bernardete Ribeiro