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This paper presents the first comprehensive interpretability analysis of a Transformer-based Sign Language Translation (SLT) model, focusing on the translation from video-based Greek Sign Language to glosses and text. Leveraging the Greek…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Pedro Alejandro Dal Bianco , Oscar Agustín Stanchi , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , Franco Ronchetti , Enzo Ferrante

Most deep-learning-based continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) models share a similar backbone consisting of a visual module, a sequential module, and an alignment module. However, due to limited training samples, a connectionist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ronglai Zuo , Brian Mak

Lip reading, aiming to recognize spoken sentences according to the given video of lip movements without relying on the audio stream, has attracted great interest due to its application in many scenarios. Although prior works that explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhijie Lin , Zhou Zhao , Haoyuan Li , Jinglin Liu , Meng Zhang , Xingshan Zeng , Xiaofei He

Sign language recognition and translation first uses a recognition module to generate glosses from sign language videos and then employs a translation module to translate glosses into spoken sentences. Most existing works focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yong Cao , Wei Li , Xianzhi Li , Min Chen , Guangyong Chen , Long Hu , Zhengdao Li , Hwang Kai

Transformer is a ubiquitous model for natural language processing and has attracted wide attentions in computer vision. The attention maps are indispensable for a transformer model to encode the dependencies among input tokens. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Jing Bai , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Transformers have achieved success in both language and vision domains. However, it is prohibitively expensive to scale them to long sequences such as long documents or high-resolution images, because self-attention mechanism has quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Chen Zhu , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , Mohammad Shoeybi , Tom Goldstein , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Sign Language Representation Learning (SLRL) is crucial for a range of sign language-related downstream tasks such as Sign Language Translation (SLT) and Sign Language Retrieval (SLRet). Recently, many gloss-based and gloss-free SLRL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhigang Chen , Benjia Zhou , Yiqing Huang , Jun Wan , Yibo Hu , Hailin Shi , Yanyan Liang , Zhen Lei , Du Zhang

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to convert continuous sign language videos into textual sentences. As a typical multi-modal task, there exists an inherent modality gap between sign language videos and spoken language text, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rui Zhao , Liang Zhang , Biao Fu , Cong Hu , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

Sign language translation remains a challenging task due to the scarcity of large-scale, sentence-aligned datasets. Prior arts have focused on various feature extraction and architectural changes to support neural machine translation for…

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Transformer models are powerful sequence-to-sequence architectures that are capable of directly mapping speech inputs to transcriptions or translations. However, the mechanism for modeling positions in this model was tailored for text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thanh-Le Ha , Tuan-Nam Nguyen , Thai-Son Nguyen , Elizabeth Salesky , Sebastian Stueker , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a promising technology to bridge the communication gap between the deaf and the hearing people. Recently, researchers have adopted Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods, which usually require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Biao Fu , Peigen Ye , Liang Zhang , Pei Yu , Cong Hu , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Scene text recognition (STR) enables computers to recognize and read the text in various real-world scenes. Recent STR models benefit from taking linguistic information in addition to visual cues into consideration. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jie Wu , Ying Peng , Shengming Zhang , Weigang Qi , Jian Zhang

Sign language is the primary language for people with a hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) is the automatic recognition of sign language, which represents a challenging problem for computers, though some progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Roman Töngi

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Md Hadiuzzaman , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Jungpil Shin

Sign language translation as a kind of technology with profound social significance has attracted growing researchers' interest in recent years. However, the existing sign language translation methods need to read all the videos before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Aoxiong Yin , Zhou Zhao , Jinglin Liu , Weike Jin , Meng Zhang , Xingshan Zeng , Xiaofei He

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for applications such as autonomous driving navigation and mobile robot localization. Distracting elements presenting in complex scenes often lead to deviations in the perception of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruotong Wang , Yanqing Shen , Weiliang Zuo , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

Traffic forecasting represents a crucial problem within intelligent transportation systems. In recent research, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising method, but their intrinsic design, tailored primarily for sequential…

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