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Recent advancements in the field of computer vision with the help of deep neural networks have led us to explore and develop many existing challenges that were once unattended due to the lack of necessary technologies. Hand Sign/Gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Shahjalal Ahmed , Md. Rafiqul Islam , Jahid Hassan , Minhaz Uddin Ahmed , Bilkis Jamal Ferdosi , Sanjay Saha , Md. Shopon

Sign language generation (SLG) aims to translate written texts into expressive sign motions, bridging communication barriers for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities. Recent studies formulate SLG within the language modeling framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ronglai Zuo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Qi Sun , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Sign language serves as a non-vocal means of communication, transmitting information and significance through gestures, facial expressions, and bodily movements. The majority of current approaches for sign language recognition (SLR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mo Guan , Yan Wang , Guangkun Ma , Jiarui Liu , Mingzu Sun

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) has become a key enabler of inclusive human-computer interaction, fostering seamless communication between deaf individuals and hearing communities. Despite significant advances in multimodal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiaofang Xiao , Guangchao Li , Guangrong Zhao , Qi Lin , Wen Ma , Hongkai Wen , Yanxiang Wang , Yiran Shen

We present SignAvatars, the first large-scale, multi-prompt 3D sign language (SL) motion dataset designed to bridge the communication gap for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. While there has been an exponentially growing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengdi Yu , Shaoli Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Tolga Birdal

Sign language translation (SLT), which generates text in a spoken language from visual content in a sign language, is important to assist the hard-of-hearing community for their communications. Inspired by neural machine translation (NMT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jichao Kan , Kun Hu , Markus Hagenbuchner , Ah Chung Tsoi , Mohammed Bennamounm , Zhiyong Wang

In this work, we propose DARSLP, a simple gloss-free, transformer-based sign language production (SLP) framework that directly maps spoken-language text to sign pose sequences. We first train a pose autoencoder that encodes sign poses into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sumeyye Meryem Tasyurek , Tugce Kiziltepe , Hacer Yalim Keles

Sign language is a beautiful visual language and is also the primary language used by speaking and hearing-impaired people. However, sign language has many complex expressions, which are difficult for the public to understand and master.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ronghui Li , Lu Meng

Social media platforms support the sharing of written text, video, and audio. All of these formats may be inaccessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), particularly those who primarily communicate via sign language, people…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Kelly Mack , Danielle Bragg , Meredith Ringel Morris , Maarten W. Bos , Isabelle Albi , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

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 languages are visual languages which convey information by signers' handshape, facial expression, body movement, and so forth. Due to the inherent restriction of combinations of these visual ingredients, there exist a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

People with speech and hearing impairments often rely on sign language to communicate with others but most of the general population cannot understand sign language and sign language itself is a difficult language to learn, so there is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Sai Charan Bodda , Palki Gupta , Gaurav Joshi , Ayush Chaturvedi

Sign language, which contains hand movements, facial expressions and bodily gestures, is a significant medium for communicating with hard-of-hearing people. A well-trained sign language community communicates easily, but those who don't…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ajeet Kumar Yadav , Nishant Kumar , Rathna G N

Sign languages are used as a primary language by approximately 70 million D/deaf people world-wide. However, most communication technologies operate in spoken and written languages, creating inequities in access. To help tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aashaka Desai , Lauren Berger , Fyodor O. Minakov , Vanessa Milan , Chinmay Singh , Kriston Pumphrey , Richard E. Ladner , Hal Daumé , Alex X. Lu , Naomi Caselli , Danielle Bragg

Sign language is a fundamental means of communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) community, enabling nuanced expression through gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. Despite its critical role in facilitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Brettmann , Jakob Grävinghoff , Marlene Rüschoff , Marie Westhues

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) is an important topic within the areas of human-computer interaction and machine learning. On the one hand, it poses a complex challenge that requires the intervention of various knowledge areas,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , César Estrebou , Laura Lanzarini , Alejandro Rosete

The term natural language refers to any system of symbolic communication (spoken, signed or written) without intentional human planning and design. This distinguishes natural languages such as Arabic and Japanese from artificially…

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

Our objective is to translate continuous sign language into spoken language text. Inspired by the way human interpreters rely on context for accurate translation, we incorporate additional contextual cues together with the signing video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Youngjoon Jang , Haran Raajesh , Liliane Momeni , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

Sign language is the primary communication mode for 72 million hearing-impaired individuals worldwide, necessitating effective bidirectional Sign Language Production and Sign Language Translation systems. However, functional bidirectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yulong Li , Yuxuan Zhang , Feilong Tang , Ming Hu , Zhixiang Lu , Haochen Xue , Jianghao Wu , Mian Zhou , Kang Dang , Chong Li , Yifang Wang , Imran Razzak , Jionglong Su