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Sign Language is used to facilitate the communication between Deaf and non-Deaf people. It uses signs-words with basic structural elements such as handshape, parts of face, body or space, and the orientation of the fingers-palm. Sign…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Maria Papatsimouli , Lazaros Lazaridis , Konstantinos-Filippos Kollias , Ioannis Skordas , George F. Fragulis

With the growing Deaf and Hard of Hearing population worldwide and the persistent shortage of certified sign language interpreters, there is a pressing need for an efficient, signs-driven, integrated end-to-end translation system, from sign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

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

Communication is defined as the act of sharing or exchanging information, ideas or feelings. To establish communication between two people, both of them are required to have knowledge and understanding of a common language. But in the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Sharvani Srivastava , Amisha Gangwar , Richa Mishra , Sudhakar Singh

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 machine translation (SLMT) -- the task of automatically translating between sign and spoken languages or between sign languages -- is a complex task within the field of NLP. Its multi-modal and non-linear nature require the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lisa Lepp , Dimitar Shterionov , Mirella De Sisto , Grzegorz Chrupała

Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research domain, lying on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this domain is performed mostly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mathieu De Coster , Dimitar Shterionov , Mieke Van Herreweghe , Joni Dambre

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the task of generating sign language video from spoken language inputs. The field has seen a range of innovations over the last few years, with the introduction of deep learning-based approaches providing…

Sign language is an essential means of communication for millions of people around the world and serves as their primary language. However, most communication tools are developed for spoken and written languages which can cause problems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ali Ghadami , Alireza Taheri , Ali Meghdari

A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 M. Madhiarasan , Partha Pratim Roy

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

In this paper, we propose SignLLM, a multilingual Sign Language Production (SLP) large language model, which includes two novel multilingual SLP modes MLSF and Prompt2LangGloss that allow sign language gestures generation from query texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chen Chen , Lei Wang , Ce Zheng , Chunyu Sui , Yapeng Tian

Sign languages, used by around 70 million Deaf individuals globally, are visual languages that convey visual and contextual information. Current methods in vision-based sign language recognition (SLR) and translation (SLT) struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuqi Liu , Wenqian Zhang , Sihan Ren , Chengyu Huang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Automatic speech processing systems are employed more and more often in real environments. Although the underlying speech technology is mostly language independent, differences between languages with respect to their structure and grammar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-20 A. M. Riad , Hamdy K. Elmonier , Samaa. M. Shohieb , A. S. Asem

Sign languages are visual languages, with vocabularies as rich as their spoken language counterparts. However, current deep-learning based Sign Language Production (SLP) models produce under-articulated skeleton pose sequences from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

The field of sign language translation has witnessed significant progress in the translation between sign and spoken languages, but the translation between sign languages remains largely unexplored and out of reach. The latter can help 1.5…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zetian Wu , Bowen Xie , Wuyang Meng , Milan Gautam , Stefan Lee , Liang Huang

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

Sign language is a natural and visual form of language that uses movements and expressions to convey meaning, serving as a crucial means of communication for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH). However, the number of people…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guanren Qiao , Sixu Lin , Ronglai Zuo , Zhizheng Wu , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

Growing research in sign language recognition, generation, and translation AI has been accompanied by calls for ethical development of such technologies. While these works are crucial to helping individual researchers do better, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Aashaka Desai , Maartje De Meulder , Julie A. Hochgesang , Annemarie Kocab , Alex X. Lu

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the process of converting the complex input text into a real video. Most previous works focused on the Text2Gloss, Gloss2Pose, Pose2Vid stages, and some concentrated on Prompt2Gloss and Text2Avatar stages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas