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This paper explores the effectiveness of Multimodal Large Language models (MLLMs) as assistive technologies for visually impaired individuals. We conduct a user survey to identify adoption patterns and key challenges users face with such…

Sign Language is the dominant yet non-primary form of communication language used in the deaf and hearing-impaired community. To make an easy and mutual communication between the hearing-impaired and the hearing communities, building a…

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A persistent challenge in sign language video processing, including the task of sign to written language translation, is how we learn representations of sign language in an effective and efficient way that preserves the important attributes…

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Multimodal machine translation involves drawing information from more than one modality, based on the assumption that the additional modalities will contain useful alternative views of the input data. The most prominent tasks in this area…

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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

Visual-based human action recognition can be found in various application fields, e.g., surveillance systems, sports analytics, medical assistive technologies, or human-robot interaction frameworks, and it concerns the identification and…

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Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research domain, lying on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this domain is performed mostly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mathieu De Coster , Dimitar Shterionov , Mieke Van Herreweghe , Joni Dambre

Sign language is a natural and visual form of language that uses movements and expressions to convey meaning, serving as a crucial means of communication for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH). However, the number of people…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guanren Qiao , Sixu Lin , Ronglai Zuo , Zhizheng Wu , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

With advances in data-driven machine learning research, a wide variety of prediction models have been proposed to capture spatio-temporal features for the analysis of video streams. Recognising actions and detecting action transitions…

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Sign Language Recognition has emerged as one of the important area of research in Computer Vision. The difficulty faced by the researchers is that the instances of signs vary with both motion and appearance. Thus, in this paper a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Joyeeta Singha , Karen Das

Recent technological advancements in multimodal machine learning--including the rise of large language models (LLMs)--have improved our ability to collect, process, and analyze diverse multimodal data such as speech, video, and eye gaze in…

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

Vision based human motion recognition has fascinated many researchers due to its critical challenges and a variety of applications. The applications range from simple gesture recognition to complicated behaviour understanding in…

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Deep Learning has implemented a wide range of applications and has become increasingly popular in recent years. The goal of multimodal deep learning is to create models that can process and link information using various modalities. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jabeen Summaira , Xi Li , Amin Muhammad Shoib , Songyuan Li , Jabbar Abdul

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…

Sign languages are essential for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Sign language generation systems have the potential to support communication by translating from written languages, such as English, into signed videos. However,…

Sign language is a visual language expressed through hand movements and non-manual markers. Non-manual markers include facial expressions and head movements. These expressions vary across different nations. Therefore, specialized analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yui Tatsumi , Shoko Tanaka , Shunsuke Akamatsu , Takahiro Shindo , Hiroshi Watanabe

In recent years, sign language processing (SLP) has gained importance in the general field of Natural Language Processing. However, compared to research on spoken languages, SLP research is hindered by complex ad-hoc code, inadvertently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Gerard Sant , Zifan Jiang , Carlos Escolano , Amit Moryossef , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich , Sarah Ebling

One of the factors that have hindered progress in the areas of sign language recognition, translation, and production is the absence of large annotated datasets. Towards this end, we introduce How2Sign, a multimodal and multiview continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Amanda Duarte , Shruti Palaskar , Lucas Ventura , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Kenneth DeHaan , Florian Metze , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Recent progress in fine-grained gesture and action classification, and machine translation, point to the possibility of automated sign language recognition becoming a reality. A key stumbling block in making progress towards this goal is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Samuel Albanie , Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Neil Fox , Andrew Zisserman