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Emotion recognition based on body movements is vital in human-computer interaction. However, existing emotion recognition methods predominantly focus on enhancing classification accuracy, often neglecting the provision of textual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Haifeng Lu , Jiuyi Chen , Feng Liang , Mingkui Tan , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

Skeleton-based human action recognition has attracted a lot of research attention during the past few years. Recent works attempted to utilize recurrent neural networks to model the temporal dependencies between the 3D positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jun Liu , Amir Shahroudy , Dong Xu , Alex C. Kot , Gang Wang

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

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

Accurate recognition and interpretation of sign language are crucial for enhancing communication accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. However, current approaches of Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Karina Kvanchiani , Roman Kraynov , Elizaveta Petrova , Petr Surovcev , Aleksandr Nagaev , Alexander Kapitanov

Sign(ed) languages use gestures, such as hand or head movements, for communication. Sign language recognition is an assistive technology for individuals with hearing disability and its goal is to improve such individuals' life quality by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Mohammad Eslami , Mahdi Karami , Sedigheh Eslami , Solale Tabarestani , Farah Torkamani-Azar , Christoph Meinel

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging task that requires learning on both spatial and temporal dimensions of signing frame sequences. Most recent work accomplishes this by using CNN and RNN hybrid networks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ka Leong Cheng , Zhaoyang Yang , Qifeng Chen , Yu-Wing Tai

This study presents TSLFormer, a light and robust word-level Turkish Sign Language (TSL) recognition model that treats sign gestures as ordered, string-like language. Instead of using raw RGB or depth videos, our method only works with 3D…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kutay Ertürk , Furkan Altınışık , İrem Sarıaltın , Ömer Nezih Gerek

In human interactions, hands are a powerful way of expressing information that, in some cases, can be used as a valid substitute for voice, as it happens in Sign Language. Hand gesture recognition has always been an interesting topic in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Danilo Avola , Marco Bernardi , Luigi Cinque , Gian Luca Foresti , Cristiano Massaroni

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a task that has not been studied relatively much compared to the study of Sign Language Recognition (SLR). However, the SLR is a study that recognizes the unique grammar of sign language, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Youngmin Kim , Minji Kwak , Dain Lee , Yeongeun Kim , Hyeongboo Baek

Sign language recognition (SLR) technology has enormous promise to improve communication and accessibility for the difficulty of hearing. This paper presents a novel approach for identifying gestures in TSL using the YOLOv5 object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Vipul Reddy. P , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. B , Sukriti

We present Large Sign Language Models (LSLM), a novel framework for translating 3D American Sign Language (ASL) by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as the backbone, which can benefit hearing-impaired individuals' virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sen Zhang , Xiaoxiao He , Di Liu , Zhaoyang Xia , Mingyu Zhao , Chaowei Tan , Vivian Li , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Mubbasir Kapadia

Signed languages are visual languages produced by the movement of the hands, face, and body. In this paper, we evaluate representations based on skeleton poses, as these are explainable, person-independent, privacy-preserving,…

Sign language is a set of gestures that deaf people use to communicate. Unfortunately, normal people don't understand it, which creates a communication gap that needs to be filled. Because of the variations in (Egyptian Sign Language) ESL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-27 Ahmed Elhagry , Rawan Glalal Elrayes

Gestural language is used by deaf & mute communities to communicate through hand gestures & body movements that rely on visual-spatial patterns known as sign languages. Sign languages, which rely on visual-spatial patterns of hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Rajat Singhal , Jatin Gupta , Akhil Sharma , Anushka Gupta , Navya Sharma

Sign language recognition and translation technologies have the potential to increase access and inclusion of deaf signing communities, but research progress is bottlenecked by a lack of representative data. We introduce a new resource for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lee Kezar , Elana Pontecorvo , Adele Daniels , Connor Baer , Ruth Ferster , Lauren Berger , Jesse Thomason , Zed Sevcikova Sehyr , Naomi Caselli

Accurate recognition of sign language in healthcare communication poses a significant challenge, requiring frameworks that can accurately interpret complex multimodal gestures. To deal with this, we propose FusionEnsemble-Net, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Md. Milon Islam , Md Rezwanul Haque , S M Taslim Uddin Raju , Fakhri Karray

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual-language reasoning, yet cannot process structured, non-visual data such as human skeletons. Existing methods either compress skeleton dynamics into lossy feature vectors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ziyi Wang , Peiming Li , Xinshun Wang , Yang Tang , Kai-Kuang Ma , Mengyuan Liu

The ageing population trend is correlated with an increased prevalence of acquired cognitive impairments such as dementia. Although there is no cure for dementia, a timely diagnosis helps in obtaining necessary support and appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Xing Liang , Anastassia Angelopoulou , Epaminondas Kapetanios , Bencie Woll , Reda Al-batat , Tyron Woolfe

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