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Spoken language understanding system is traditionally designed as a pipeline of a number of components. First, the audio signal is processed by an automatic speech recognizer for transcription or n-best hypotheses. With the recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Dmitriy Serdyuk , Yongqiang Wang , Christian Fuegen , Anuj Kumar , Baiyang Liu , Yoshua Bengio

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

Prior work on Sign Language Translation has shown that having a mid-level sign gloss representation (effectively recognizing the individual signs) improves the translation performance drastically. In fact, the current state-of-the-art in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Necati Cihan Camgoz , Oscar Koller , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

Millions of hearing impaired people around the world routinely use some variants of sign languages to communicate, thus the automatic translation of a sign language is meaningful and important. Currently, there are two sub-problems in Sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jie Huang , Wengang Zhou , Qilin Zhang , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

Sign Language Translation (SLT) bridges the communication gap between deaf people and hearing people, where dialogue provides crucial contextual cues to aid in translation. Building on this foundational concept, this paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zekang Liu , Wei Feng , Fanhua Shang , Lianyu Hu , Jichao Feng , Liqing Gao

Computational sign language research lacks the large-scale datasets that enables the creation of useful reallife applications. To date, most research has been limited to prototype systems on small domains of discourse, e.g. weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Necati Cihan Camgoz , Ben Saunders , Guillaume Rochette , Marco Giovanelli , Giacomo Inches , Robin Nachtrab-Ribback , Richard Bowden

Despite existing pioneering works on sign language translation (SLT), there is a non-trivial obstacle, i.e., the limited quantity of parallel sign-text data. To tackle this parallel data bottleneck, we propose a sign back-translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hao Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Weizhen Qi , Junfu Pu , Houqiang Li

Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) is an essential communication method for individuals in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. However, existing recognition systems face significant challenges due to their reliance on single sensor approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ghadeer Alanazi , Abir Benabid

The recognition of sign language is a challenging task with an important role in society to facilitate the communication of deaf persons. We propose a new approach of Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network to sign language recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Cleison Correia de Amorim , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin

Technology for language generation has advanced rapidly, spurred by advancements in pre-training large models on massive amounts of data and the need for intelligent agents to communicate in a natural manner. While techniques can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Emily Sheng , Kai-Wei Chang , Premkumar Natarajan , Nanyun Peng

Sign languages serve as essential communication systems for individuals with hearing and speech impairments. However, digital linguistic dataset resources for underrepresented sign languages, such as Nepali Sign Language (NSL), remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Birat Poudel , Satyam Ghimire , Sijan Bhattarai , Saurav Bhandari , Suramya Sharma Dahal

Automatic Sign Language Translation requires the integration of both computer vision and natural language processing to effectively bridge the communication gap between sign and spoken languages. However, the deficiency in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ryan Wong , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ariel Basso Madjoukeng , Jérôme Fink , Pierre Poitier , Edith Belise Kenmogne , Benoit Frenay

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) aims to extract the semantics frame of user queries, which is a core component in a task-oriented dialog system. With the burst of deep neural networks and the evolution of pre-trained language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Libo Qin , Tianbao Xie , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

In this paper, we propose a dual-condition diffusion pre-training model named SignDiff that can generate human sign language speakers from a skeleton pose. SignDiff has a novel Frame Reinforcement Network called FR-Net, similar to dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chunyu Sui , Yanghao Zhou , Xuedong Zhang , Hongbin Zhong , Yapeng Tian , Chen Chen

Previous audio-visual speech separation methods use the synchronization of the speaker's facial movement and speech in the video to supervise the speech separation in a self-supervised way. In this paper, we propose a model to solve the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Jiasong Wu , Xuan Li , Taotao Li , Fanman Meng , Youyong Kong , Guanyu Yang , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Body language (BL) refers to the non-verbal communication expressed through physical movements, gestures, facial expressions, and postures. It is a form of communication that conveys information, emotions, attitudes, and intentions without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Li Liu , Lufei Gao , Wentao Lei , Fengji Ma , Xiaotian Lin , Jinting Wang

With the development of deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP) makes it possible for us to analyze and understand a large amount of language texts. Accordingly, we can achieve a semantic communication in terms of joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Chenghui Peng , Honggang Zhang

This paper presents a sign language conversation system based on the See-Through Face Display to address the challenge of maintaining eye contact in remote sign language interactions. A camera positioned behind a transparent display allows…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Kazuya Izumi , Akihisa Shitara , Yoichi Ochiai

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently garnered significant attention, primarily for their capabilities in text-based interactions. However, natural human interaction often relies on speech, necessitating a shift towards voice-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenqian Cui , Dianzhi Yu , Xiaoqi Jiao , Ziqiao Meng , Guangyan Zhang , Qichao Wang , Yiwen Guo , Irwin King