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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

Real-time captioning is a useful technique for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people to talk to hearing people. With the improvement in device performance and the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR), real-time captioning is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Kenta Yamamoto , Ippei Suzuki , Akihisa Shitara , Yoichi Ochiai

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

Accurate sign language understanding serves as a crucial communication channel for individuals with disabilities. Current sign language translation algorithms predominantly rely on RGB frames, which may be limited by fixed frame rates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiao Wang , Yuehang Li , Fuling Wang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

Natural language processing for sign language video - including tasks like recognition, translation, and search - is crucial for making artificial intelligence technologies accessible to deaf individuals, and is gaining research interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Human lip-reading is a challenging task. It requires not only knowledge of underlying language but also visual clues to predict spoken words. Experts need certain level of experience and understanding of visual expressions learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-16 M Faisal , Sanaullah Manzoor

Individuals with language disorders often face significant communication challenges due to their limited language processing and comprehension abilities, which also affect their interactions with voice-assisted systems that mostly rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Seungbae Kim , Daeun Lee , Brielle Stark , Jinyoung Han

A long-standing goal in the field of sensory substitution is to enable sound perception for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people by visualizing audio content. Different from existing models that translate to hand sign language, between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Chunjin Song , Yuchi Zhang , Willis Peng , Parmis Mohaghegh , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Sign languages are multi-channel visual languages, where signers use a continuous 3D space to communicate.Sign Language Production (SLP), the automatic translation from spoken to sign languages, must embody both the continuous articulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

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

The proposed model aims to develop a speech recognition technology for hearing, speech, or cognitively disabled people. All the available technology in the field of speech recognition doesn't come with an interface for communication for…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ritabrata Roy Choudhury

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 Assessment (SLA) tools are useful to aid in language learning and are underdeveloped. Previous work has focused on isolated signs or comparison against a single reference video to assess Sign Languages (SL). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Oliver Cory , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Matthew Vowels , Alessia Battisti , Franz Holzknecht , Katja Tissi , Sandra Sidler-Miserez , Tobias Haug , Sarah Ebling , Richard Bowden

Sign language is a visual language that encompasses all linguistic features of natural languages and serves as the primary communication method for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Although many studies have successfully adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ronglai Zuo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Sign language to spoken language audio translation is important to connect the hearing- and speech-challenged humans with others. We consider sign language videos with isolated sign sequences rather than continuous grammatical signing. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Harsh Kavediya , Vighnesh Nayak , Bheeshm Sharma , Balamurugan Palaniappan

This paper proposes an attentional network for the task of Continuous Sign Language Recognition. The proposed approach exploits co-independent streams of data to model the sign language modalities. These different channels of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Fares Ben Slimane , Mohamed Bouguessa

This research explores the positive application of deepfake technology for upper body generation, specifically sign language for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHoH) community. Given the complexity of sign language and the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shahzeb Naeem , Muhammad Riyyan Khan , Usman Tariq , Abhinav Dhall , Carlos Ivan Colon , Hasan Al-Nashash

Sign language segmentation is a crucial task in sign language processing systems. It enables downstream tasks such as sign recognition, transcription, and machine translation. In this work, we consider two kinds of segmentation:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amit Moryossef , Zifan Jiang , Mathias Müller , Sarah Ebling , Yoav Goldberg

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