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The goal of automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) is to translate spoken language to a continuous stream of sign language video at a level comparable to a human translator. If this was achievable, then it would revolutionise Deaf hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

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

While sign language translation systems promise to enhance deaf people's access to information and communication, they have been met with strong skepticism from deaf communities due to risks of misrepresenting and oversimplifying the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xinru Tang , Anne Marie Piper

Signed Language Processing (SLP) concerns the automated processing of signed languages, the main means of communication of Deaf and hearing impaired individuals. SLP features many different tasks, ranging from sign recognition to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Viktor Schlegel , Marta Romeo , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Sign language is an essential resource enabling access to communication and proper socioemotional development for individuals suffering from disabling hearing loss. As this population is expected to reach 700 million by 2050, the importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Cleison Correia de Amorim , Cleber Zanchettin

Sign Language is used to facilitate the communication between Deaf and non-Deaf people. It uses signs-words with basic structural elements such as handshape, parts of face, body or space, and the orientation of the fingers-palm. Sign…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Maria Papatsimouli , Lazaros Lazaridis , Konstantinos-Filippos Kollias , Ioannis Skordas , George F. Fragulis

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the process of converting the complex input text into a real video. Most previous works focused on the Text2Gloss, Gloss2Pose, Pose2Vid stages, and some concentrated on Prompt2Gloss and Text2Avatar stages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Sign languages, used by around 70 million Deaf individuals globally, are visual languages that convey visual and contextual information. Current methods in vision-based sign language recognition (SLR) and translation (SLT) struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuqi Liu , Wenqian Zhang , Sihan Ren , Chengyu Huang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Automatic speech processing systems are employed more and more often in real environments. Although the underlying speech technology is mostly language independent, differences between languages with respect to their structure and grammar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-20 A. M. Riad , Hamdy K. Elmonier , Samaa. M. Shohieb , A. S. Asem

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

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

With the growing Deaf and Hard of Hearing population worldwide and the persistent shortage of certified sign language interpreters, there is a pressing need for an efficient, signs-driven, integrated end-to-end translation system, from sign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Audio is the primary modality for human communication and has driven the success of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. However, such audio-centric systems inherently exclude individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jeong Hun Yeo , Hyeongseop Rha , Sungjune Park , Junil Won , Yong Man Ro

To be truly understandable and accepted by Deaf communities, an automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) system must generate a photo-realistic signer. Prior approaches based on graphical avatars have proven unpopular, whereas recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign language visual recognition from continuous multi-modal streams is still one of the most challenging fields. Recent advances in human actions recognition are exploiting the ascension of GPU-based learning from massive data, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Bassem Seddik , Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara

Sign language is an essential means of communication for millions of people around the world and serves as their primary language. However, most communication tools are developed for spoken and written languages which can cause problems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ali Ghadami , Alireza Taheri , Ali Meghdari

Sign languages are visual languages, with vocabularies as rich as their spoken language counterparts. However, current deep-learning based Sign Language Production (SLP) models produce under-articulated skeleton pose sequences from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Growing research in sign language recognition, generation, and translation AI has been accompanied by calls for ethical development of such technologies. While these works are crucial to helping individual researchers do better, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Aashaka Desai , Maartje De Meulder , Julie A. Hochgesang , Annemarie Kocab , Alex X. Lu

People with vocal and hearing disabilities use sign language to express themselves using visual gestures and signs. Although sign language is a solution for communication difficulties faced by deaf people, there are still problems as most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mallikharjuna Rao K , Harleen Kaur , Sanjam Kaur Bedi , M A Lekhana

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