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The deaf and hard of hearing community relies on American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary mode of communication, but communication with others who do not know ASL can be difficult, especially during emergencies where no interpreter is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Janice Nguyen , Y. Curtis Wang

We introduce a goal-oriented conversational AI system enhanced with American Sign Language (ASL) instructions, presenting the first implementation of such a system on a worldwide multimodal conversational AI platform. Accessible through a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Mert İnan , Katherine Atwell , Anthony Sicilia , Lorna Quandt , Malihe Alikhani

Sign languages are visual languages which convey information by signers' handshape, facial expression, body movement, and so forth. Due to the inherent restriction of combinations of these visual ingredients, there exist a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

Tremendous headway has been made in the field of 3D hand pose estimation but the 3D depth cameras are usually inaccessible. We propose a model to recognize American Sign Language alphabet from RGB images. Images for the training were…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Nikhil Kasukurthi , Brij Rokad , Shiv Bidani , Aju Dennisan

Sign language to text is a crucial technology that can break down communication barriers for individuals with hearing difficulties. We replicate and try to improve on a recently published study. We evaluate models using BLEU and rBLEU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Parsheeta Roy , Ji-Eun Han , Srishti Chouhan , Bhaavanaa Thumu

Hand gesture serves as a crucial role during the expression of sign language. Current deep learning based methods for sign language understanding (SLU) are prone to over-fitting due to insufficient sign data resource and suffer limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

In this paper, a comparative experimental assessment of computer vision-based methods for sign language recognition is conducted. By implementing the most recent deep neural network methods in this field, a thorough evaluation on multiple…

AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters and 100s of hours of data but remain only partially annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Colin Lea , Vasileios Baltatzis , Connor Gillis , Raja Kushalnagar , Lorna Quandt , Leah Findlater

We use insights from research on American Sign Language (ASL) phonology to train models for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR), a step towards automatic sign language understanding. Our key insight is to explicitly recognize the role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lee Kezar , Jesse Thomason , Zed Sevcikova Sehyr

Sign language translation has historically been peripheral to mainstream machine translation research. In order to help converge the fields, we introduce FLEURS-ASL, an extension of the multiway parallel benchmarks FLORES (for text) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Garrett Tanzer

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

Since American Sign Language (ASL) has no standard written form, Deaf signers frequently share videos in order to communicate in their native language. However, since both hands and face convey critical linguistic information in signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhaoyang Xia , Carol Neidle , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Vision-based sign language recognition aims at helping deaf people to communicate with others. However, most existing sign language datasets are limited to a small number of words. Due to the limited vocabulary size, models learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dongxu Li , Cristian Rodriguez Opazo , Xin Yu , Hongdong Li

Systems that can efficiently search collections of sign language videos have been highlighted as a useful application of sign language technology. However, the problem of searching videos beyond individual keywords has received limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Amanda Duarte , Samuel Albanie , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Gül Varol

As online tracking continues to grow, existing anti-tracking and fingerprinting detection techniques that require significant manual input must be augmented. Heuristic approaches to fingerprinting detection are precise but must be carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Sarah Bird , Vikas Mishra , Steven Englehardt , Rob Willoughby , David Zeber , Walter Rudametkin , Martin Lopatka

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,…

The goal of this work is background-robust continuous sign language recognition. Most existing Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) benchmarks have fixed backgrounds and are filmed in studios with a static monochromatic background.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Youngjoon Jang , Youngtaek Oh , Jae Won Cho , Dong-Jin Kim , Joon Son Chung , In So Kweon

The focus of this work is $\textit{sign spotting}$ - given a video of an isolated sign, our task is to identify $\textit{whether}$ and $\textit{where}$ it has been signed in a continuous, co-articulated sign language video. To achieve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Samuel Albanie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

This research combines MediaPipe and CNNs for the efficient and accurate interpretation of ASL dataset for the real-time detection of sign language. The system presented here captures and processes hands' gestures in real time. the intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Aditya Raj Verma , Gagandeep Singh , Karnim Meghwal , Banawath Ramji , Praveen Kumar Dadheech

Sign language is a visual language that enhances communication between people and is frequently used as the primary form of communication by people with hearing loss. Even so, not many people with hearing loss use sign language, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ayush Sinha , Ashutosh Bajpai , S. K Singh