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Deep learning models have improved sign language-to-text translation and made it easier for non-signers to understand signed messages. When the goal is spoken communication, a naive approach is to convert signed messages into text and then…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Toranosuke Manabe , Yuto Shibata , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Natural language plays a critical role in many computer vision applications, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieval, to provide fine-grained semantic information. Unfortunately, while human pose is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ginger Delmas , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Thomas Lucas , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Grégory Rogez

In this work, we introduce the BBC-Oxford British Sign Language (BOBSL) dataset, a large-scale video collection of British Sign Language (BSL). BOBSL is an extended and publicly released dataset based on the BSL-1K dataset introduced in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Samuel Albanie , Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , Triantafyllos Afouras , Himel Chowdhury , Neil Fox , Bencie Woll , Rob Cooper , Andrew McParland , Andrew Zisserman

In this work, we present an efficient approach for capturing sign language in 3D, introduce the 3D-LEX v1.0 dataset, and detail a method for semi-automatic annotation of phonetic properties. Our procedure integrates three motion capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Oline Ranum , Gomer Otterspeer , Jari I. Andersen , Robert G. Belleman , Floris Roelofsen

We introduce the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign class examples to recognize the instances of unseen signs. To this end, we propose to utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yunus Can Bilge , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

In this project, we have developed a sign language tutor that lets users learn isolated signs by watching recorded videos and by trying the same signs. The system records the user's video and analyses it. If the sign is recognized, both…

The absence of annotated sign language datasets has hindered the development of sign language recognition and translation technologies. In this paper, we introduce Bornil; a crowdsource-friendly, multilingual sign language data collection,…

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

The past decade has seen great advancements in speech recognition for control of interactive devices, personal assistants, and computer interfaces. However, Deaf and hard-ofhearing (HoH) individuals, whose primary mode of communication is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Emre Kurtoglu , Ali C. Gurbuz , Evie A. Malaia , Darrin Griffin , Chris Crawford , Sevgi Z. Gurbuz

Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR) has emerged as a vital field for bridging the gap between deaf and hearing communities. However, the problem of sign-to-sign retrieval or detecting a specific sign within a sequence of continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Emmanuel Enejo Aaron , Assane Gueye

This paper explores the application of T5 models for Saudi Sign Language (SSL) translation using a novel dataset. The SSL dataset includes three challenging testing protocols, enabling comprehensive evaluation across different scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ali Alhejab , Tomas Zelezny , Lamya Alkanhal , Ivan Gruber , Yazeed Alharbi , Jakub Straka , Vaclav Javorek , Marek Hruz , Badriah Alkalifah , Ahmed Ali

Sign language is the primary communication language for people with disabling hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) systems aim to recognize sign gestures and translate them into spoken language. One of the main challenges in SLR is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hasan Algafri , Hamzah Luqman , Sarah Alyami , Issam Laradji

Accurate sign language understanding serves as a crucial communication channel for individuals with disabilities. Current sign language translation algorithms predominantly rely on RGB frames, which may be limited by fixed frame rates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiao Wang , Yuehang Li , Fuling Wang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

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

Sign language is one of the most effective communication tools for people with hearing difficulties. Most existing works focus on improving the performance of sign language tasks on RGB videos, which may suffer from degraded recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Pengyu Zhang , Hao Yin , Zeren Wang , Wenyue Chen , Shengming Li , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

This paper proposes an attentional network for the task of Continuous Sign Language Recognition. The proposed approach exploits co-independent streams of data to model the sign language modalities. These different channels of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Fares Ben Slimane , Mohamed Bouguessa

Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction,…

Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch

An robust sign language recognition system can greatly alleviate communication barriers, particularly for people who struggle with verbal communication. This is crucial for human growth and progress as it enables the expression of thoughts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Md Shamimul Islam , A. J. M. Akhtarujjaman Joha , Md Nur Hossain , Sohaib Abdullah , Ibrahim Elwarfalli , Md Mahedi Hasan

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