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Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a core task in the field of AI-assisted disability. Traditional SLT methods are typically based on visible light videos, which are easily affected by factors such as lighting variations, rapid hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Duoqing Yang , Yao Rong , Fuling Wang , Jianing Li , Lin Zhu , Bo Jiang

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

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a key component of task-oriented dialogue systems. SLU parses natural language user utterances into semantic frames. Previous work has shown that incorporating context information significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Qian Chen , Zhu Zhuo , Wen Wang , Qiuyun Xu

In the realm of Sign Language Translation (SLT), reliance on costly gloss-annotated datasets has posed a significant barrier. Recent advancements in gloss-free SLT methods have shown promise, yet they often largely lag behind gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Han Liang , Chengyu Huang , Yuecheng Xu , Cheng Tang , Weicai Ye , Juze Zhang , Xin Chen , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

End-to-end sign language translation (SLT) aims to convert sign language videos into spoken language texts directly without intermediate representations. It has been a challenging task due to the modality gap between sign videos and texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jinhui Ye , Wenxiang Jiao , Xing Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Hui Xiong

Hallucination, where models generate fluent text unsupported by visual evidence, remains a major flaw in vision-language models and is particularly critical in sign language translation (SLT). In SLT, meaning depends on precise grounding in…

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to translate natural language from sign language videos, serving as a vital bridge for inclusive communication. While recent advances leverage powerful visual backbones and large language models, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Wenfang Wu , Tingting Yuan , Yupeng Li , Daling Wang , Xiaoming Fu

Sign language translation remains a challenging task due to the scarcity of large-scale, sentence-aligned datasets. Prior arts have focused on various feature extraction and architectural changes to support neural machine translation for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Abhinav Joshi , Vaibhav Sharma , Sanjeet Singh , Ashutosh Modi

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

The absence of effective communication the deaf population represents the main social gap in this community. Furthermore, the sign language, main deaf communication tool, is unlettered, i.e., there is no formal written representation. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Fredy Alejandro Mendoza López , Jefferson Rodriguez , Fabio Martínez

In this paper, we tackle the problem of sign language translation (SLT) without gloss annotations. Although intermediate representation like gloss has been proven effective, gloss annotations are hard to acquire, especially in large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kezhou Lin , Xiaohan Wang , Linchao Zhu , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Yi Yang

Artificial intelligence has achieved notable results in sign language recognition and translation. However, relatively few efforts have been made to significantly improve the quality of life for the 72 million hearing-impaired people…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yulong Li , Bolin Ren , Ke Hu , Changyuan Liu , Zhengyong Jiang , Kang Dang , Jionglong Su

Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) has advanced rapidly, achieving strong performances without relying on gloss annotations. However, these gains have often come with increased model complexity and high computational demands,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Helping deaf and hard-of-hearing people communicate more easily is the main goal of Automatic Sign Language Translation. Although most past research has focused on turning sign language into text, doing the reverse, turning spoken English…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kazi Mahathir Rahman , Naveed Imtiaz Nafis , Md. Farhan Sadik , Mohammad Al Rafi , Mehedi Hasan Shahed

Sign language gloss translation aims to translate the sign glosses into spoken language texts, which is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled gloss-text parallel data. Back translation (BT), which generates pseudo-parallel data by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jinhui Ye , Wenxiang Jiao , Xing Wang , Zhaopeng Tu

Despite progress in gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT), traditional single modality end-to-end approaches consistently fail on two critical components of natural signing: the precise recognition of high-speed fingerspelling and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Marshall Thomas , Edward Fish , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation as a kind of technology with profound social significance has attracted growing researchers' interest in recent years. However, the existing sign language translation methods need to read all the videos before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Aoxiong Yin , Zhou Zhao , Jinglin Liu , Weike Jin , Meng Zhang , Xingshan Zeng , Xiaofei He

Advancements in self-supervised pre-training (SSL) have significantly advanced the field of learning transferable time series representations, which can be very useful in enhancing the downstream task. Despite being effective, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Mingyue Cheng , Xiaoyu Tao , Qi Liu , Hao Zhang , Yiheng Chen , Defu Lian

Sign Language (SL), as the mother tongue of the deaf community, is a special visual language that most hearing people cannot understand. In recent years, neural Sign Language Translation (SLT), as a possible way for bridging communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jiangbin Zheng , Siyuan Li , Cheng Tan , Chong Wu , Yidong Chen , Stan Z. Li

Gloss-free sign language translation (SLT) aims to develop well-performing SLT systems with no requirement for the costly gloss annotations, but currently still lags behind gloss-based approaches significantly. In this paper, we identify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinhui Ye , Xing Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Junwei Liang , Hui Xiong