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Significant advances have been made in our ability to understand and generate emotionally expressive content such as text and speech, yet comparable progress in sign language technologies remain limited. While computational approaches to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Phoebe Chua , Cathy Mengying Fang , Yasith Samaradivakara , Pattie Maes , Suranga Nanayakkara

Audio is the primary modality for human communication and has driven the success of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. However, such audio-centric systems inherently exclude individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jeong Hun Yeo , Hyeongseop Rha , Sungjune Park , Junil Won , Yong Man Ro

Large language models, with their strong reasoning ability and rich knowledge, have brought revolution to many tasks of AI, but their impact on sign language generation remains limited due to its complexity and unique rules. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zhaoyi An , Rei Kawakami

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

Deaf individuals confront significant communication obstacles on a daily basis. Their inability to hear makes it difficult for them to communicate with those who do not understand sign language. Moreover, it presents difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Velmathi G , Kaushal Goyal

People with vocal and hearing disabilities use sign language to express themselves using visual gestures and signs. Although sign language is a solution for communication difficulties faced by deaf people, there are still problems as most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mallikharjuna Rao K , Harleen Kaur , Sanjam Kaur Bedi , M A Lekhana

There is accelerating interest in sign language technologies (SLTs), with increasing attention from both industry and academia. However, the perspectives of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals remain marginalized in their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Katherine Atwell , Saki Imai , Danielle Bragg , Malihe Alikhani

Sign language visual recognition from continuous multi-modal streams is still one of the most challenging fields. Recent advances in human actions recognition are exploiting the ascension of GPU-based learning from massive data, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Bassem Seddik , Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara

We have come up with a research that hopes to provide a bridge between the users of American Sign Language and the users of spoken language and Indian Sign Language (ISL). The research enabled us to create a novel framework that we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Malay Kumar , S. Sarvajit Visagan , Tanish Sarang Mahajan , Anisha Natarajan

It has always been a rather tough task to communicate with someone possessing a hearing impairment. One of the most tested ways to establish such a communication is through the use of sign based languages. However, not many people are aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sharanya Mukherjee , Md Hishaam Akhtar , Kannadasan R

Emotional voice communication plays a crucial role in effective daily interactions. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals often rely on facial expressions to supplement sign language to convey emotions, as the use of voice is limited.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hyunchul Lim , Minghan Gao , Franklin Mingzhe Li , Nam Anh Dang , Ianip Sit , Michelle M Olson , Cheng Zhang

Sign languages, of any geographical or accentual variation, understandably face continuous scrutiny under the ever present popularity of verbal dictation and audism. Through this, many potential problems arise with the current lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Nina Seron-Abouelfadil , Poppy Fynes

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

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman

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

It is common practice to represent spoken languages at their phonetic level. However, for sign languages, this implies breaking motion into its constituent motion primitives. Avatar based Sign Language Production (SLP) has traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign language, which conveys meaning through gestures, is the chief means of communication among deaf people. Recognizing sign language in natural settings presents significant challenges due to factors such as lighting, background clutter,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Bowen Shi

This demo paper presents sign.mt, an open-source application pioneering real-time multilingual bi-directional translation between spoken and signed languages. Harnessing state-of-the-art open-source models, this tool aims to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Amit Moryossef

Sign Language helps people with Speaking and Hearing Disabilities communicate with others efficiently. Sign Language identification is a challenging area in the field of computer vision and recent developments have been able to achieve near…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yugam Bajaj , Puru Malhotra

This paper explores the use of Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) as a suitable formal framework for describing Sign Language (SL), the language of deaf people, in the context of natural language processing. SLs are visual, complete,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Arturo Curiel , Christophe Collet