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Automatic sign language recognition is an open problem that has received a lot of attention recently, not only because of its usefulness to signers, but also due to the numerous applications a sign classifier can have. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Lucas Rioux-Maldague , Philippe Giguère

Significant progress has been made recently on challenging tasks in automatic sign language understanding, such as sign language recognition, translation and production. However, these works have focused on datasets with relatively few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alvaro Budria , Laia Tarres , Gerard I. Gallego , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

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

Fingerspelling in sign language has been the means of communicating technical terms and proper nouns when they do not have dedicated sign language gestures. Automatic recognition of fingerspelling can help resolve communication barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Kamala Gajurel , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is an essential yet challenging task since sign language is performed with the fast and complex movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. %Skeleton Aware Multi-modal Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Maxim Novopoltsev , Leonid Verkhovtsev , Ruslan Murtazin , Dmitriy Milevich , Iuliia Zemtsova

Sign language recognition is a challenging and often underestimated problem comprising multi-modal articulators (handshape, orientation, movement, upper body and face) that integrate asynchronously on multiple streams. Learning powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Oscar Koller

Handshapes serve a fundamental phonological role in signed languages, with American Sign Language employing approximately 50 distinct shapes. However,computational approaches rarely model handshapes explicitly, limiting both recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alessa Carbo , Eric Nalisnick

In recent years, deep learning techniques have been used to develop sign language recognition systems, potentially serving as a communication tool for millions of hearing-impaired individuals worldwide. However, there are inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Alvaro Leandro Cavalcante Carneiro , Denis Henrique Pinheiro Salvadeo , Lucas de Brito Silva

Language models for American Sign Language (ASL) could make language technologies substantially more accessible to those who sign. To train models on tasks such as isolated sign recognition (ISR) and ASL-to-English translation, datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lee Kezar , Nidhi Munikote , Zian Zeng , Zed Sehyr , Naomi Caselli , Jesse Thomason

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

Fingerspelling is a component of sign languages in which words are spelled out letter by letter using specific hand poses. Automatic fingerspelling recognition plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between Deaf and hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Junuk Cha , Jihyeon Kim , Han-Mu Park

The lack of automatic evaluation metrics tailored for SignWriting presents a significant obstacle in developing effective transcription and translation models for signed languages. This paper introduces a comprehensive suite of evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Amit Moryossef , Rotem Zilberman , Ohad Langer

Progress in machine understanding of sign languages has been slow and hampered by limited data. In this paper, we present FSboard, an American Sign Language fingerspelling dataset situated in a mobile text entry use case, collected from 147…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Manfred Georg , Garrett Tanzer , Saad Hassan , Maximus Shengelia , Esha Uboweja , Sam Sepah , Sean Forbes , Thad Starner

Learning fine-grained movements is a challenging topic in robotics, particularly in the context of robotic hands. One specific instance of this challenge is the acquisition of fingerspelling sign language in robots. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Labeling is the cornerstone of supervised machine learning, which has been exploited in a plethora of various applications, with sign language recognition being one of them. However, such algorithms must be fed with a huge amount of…

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.…

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…

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

We are releasing a dataset containing videos of both fluent and non-fluent signers using American Sign Language (ASL), which were collected using a Kinect v2 sensor. This dataset was collected as a part of a project to develop and evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Saad Hassan , Matthew Seita , Larwan Berke , Yingli Tian , Elaine Gale , Sooyeon Lee , Matt Huenerfauth

In the realm of multimodal communication, sign language is, and continues to be, one of the most understudied areas. In line with recent advances in the field of deep learning, there are far reaching implications and applications that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Vivek Bheda , Dianna Radpour