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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

Human Pose Estimation is a low-level task useful forsurveillance, human action recognition, and scene understandingat large. It also offers promising perspectives for the animationof synthetic characters. For all these applications, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Lucas Mourot , François Le Clerc , Cédric Thébault , Pierre Hellier

Human pose estimation aims to locate the human body parts and build human body representation (e.g., body skeleton) from input data such as images and videos. It has drawn increasing attention during the past decade and has been utilized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ce Zheng , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Taojiannan Yang , Sijie Zhu , Ju Shen , Nasser Kehtarnavaz , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we propose P3D, the human part-wise motion context learning framework for sign language recognition. Our main contributions lie in two dimensions: learning the part-wise motion context and employing the pose ensemble to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Taeryung Lee , Yeonguk Oh , Kyoung Mu Lee

Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communication barriers in critical settings. Sign languages present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Phoebe Chua , Cathy Mengying Fang , Takehiko Ohkawa , Raja Kushalnagar , Suranga Nanayakkara , Pattie Maes

Human pose estimation aims at localizing human anatomical keypoints or body parts in the input data (e.g., images, videos, or signals). It forms a crucial component in enabling machines to have an insightful understanding of the behaviors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Haoming Chen , Runyang Feng , Sifan Wu , Hao Xu , Fengcheng Zhou , Zhenguang Liu

We introduce MotionScript, a novel framework for generating highly detailed, natural language descriptions of 3D human motions. Unlike existing motion datasets that rely on broad action labels or generic captions, MotionScript provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Payam Jome Yazdian , Rachel Lagasse , Hamid Mohammadi , Eric Liu , Li Cheng , Angelica Lim

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Current signing avatars are often described as unnatural as they cannot accurately reproduce all the subtleties of synchronized body behaviors of a human signer. In this paper, we propose a new dynamic approach for transitions between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Inês Lacerda , Hugo Nicolau , Luisa Coheur

The number of static human poses is limited, it is hard to retrieve the exact videos using one single pose as the clue. However, with a pose sequence or a dynamic gesture as the keyword, retrieving specific videos becomes more feasible. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Cheng Zhang

Recognizing human actions in untrimmed videos is an important challenging task. An effective 3D motion representation and a powerful learning model are two key factors influencing recognition performance. In this paper we introduce a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Huy-Hieu Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

Analyzing human motion is a challenging task with a wide variety of applications in computer vision and in graphics. One such application, of particular importance in computer animation, is the retargeting of motion from one performer to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Kfir Aberman , Rundi Wu , Dani Lischinski , Baoquan Chen , Daniel Cohen-Or

"How can we animate 3D-characters from a movie script or move robots by simply telling them what we would like them to do?" "How unstructured and complex can we make a sentence and still generate plausible movements from it?" These are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Anindita Ghosh , Noshaba Cheema , Cennet Oguz , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently in motion data collection technologies and generation methods, laying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Dongwoo Ro , Hai Ci , Jinlu Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

Sign language understanding has made significant strides; however, there is still no viable solution for generating sign sequences directly from entire spoken content, e.g., text or speech. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian Ma , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang , Feng Zheng

Continuously recognizing sign gestures and converting them to glosses plays a key role in bridging the gap between the hearing and hearing-impaired communities. This involves recognizing and interpreting the hands, face, and body gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Andrew Blayama Stephen , Assane Gueye

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

Human pose analysis has garnered significant attention within both the research community and practical applications, owing to its expanding array of uses, including gaming, video surveillance, sports performance analysis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Lijuan Zhou , Xiang Meng , Zhihuan Liu , Mengqi Wu , Zhimin Gao , Pichao Wang

Searching for unfamiliar American Sign Language (ASL) signs is challenging for learners because, unlike spoken languages, they cannot type a text-based query to look up an unfamiliar sign. Advances in isolated sign recognition have enabled…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Saad Hassan , Matyas Bohacek , Chaelin Kim , Denise Crochet

Existing Sign Language Learning applications focus on the demonstration of the sign in the hope that the student will copy a sign correctly. In these cases, only a teacher can confirm that the sign was completed correctly, by reviewing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Nikita Louison , Wayne Goodridge , Koffka Khan