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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

The goal of this work is to develop self-sufficient framework for Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) that addresses key issues of sign language recognition. These include the need for complex multi-scale features such as hands,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Youngjoon Jang , Youngtaek Oh , Jae Won Cho , Myungchul Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , In So Kweon , Joon Son Chung

Aiming at the problem that the spatial-temporal hierarchical continuous sign language recognition model based on deep learning has a large amount of computation, which limits the real-time application of the model, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR) has emerged as a vital field for bridging the gap between deaf and hearing communities. However, the problem of sign-to-sign retrieval or detecting a specific sign within a sequence of continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Emmanuel Enejo Aaron , Assane Gueye

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between the hearing and vocally impaired community and the rest of the society. Word-level sign language recognition (WSLR) is the first important step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Anirudh Tunga , Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati , Juan Wachs

Sign languages are the language of hearing-impaired people who use visuals like the hand, facial, and body movements for communication. There are different signs and gestures representing alphabets, words, and phrases. Nowadays…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sharvani Srivastava , Sudhakar Singh , Pooja , Shiv Prakash

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Chen , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Jinpeng Li , Donghao Zhou , Bian Wu , Chenyong Guan , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Word-level sign language recognition (WSLR) is a fundamental task in sign language interpretation. It requires models to recognize isolated sign words from videos. However, annotating WSLR data needs expert knowledge, thus limiting WSLR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dongxu Li , Xin Yu , Chenchen Xu , Lars Petersson , Hongdong Li

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the tough task of turning sign language into sign videos. The main goal of SLP is to create these videos using a sign gloss. In this research, we've developed a new method to make high-quality sign videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Pan Xie , Taiyi Peng , Yao Du , Qipeng Zhang

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) approaches primarily rely on RGB data or signer pose information. However, combining these modalities often results in the loss of crucial details, such as hand shape and orientation, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sven Schreiber , Noha Sarhan , Simone Frintrop , Christian Wilms

Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) has achieved remarkable progress in recent years; however, most existing methods are developed under single-view settings and thus remain insufficiently robust to viewpoint variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Wan Jiang , Yaxiong Wang , Lechao Cheng , Richang Hong

Sign language is a visual language that enhances communication between people and is frequently used as the primary form of communication by people with hearing loss. Even so, not many people with hearing loss use sign language, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ayush Sinha , Ashutosh Bajpai , S. K Singh

Sign spotting, the task of identifying and localizing individual signs within continuous sign language video, plays a pivotal role in scaling dataset annotations and addressing the severe data scarcity issue in sign language translation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

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

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) deals with unaligned video-text pair and uses the word error rate (WER), i.e., edit distance, as the main evaluation metric. Since it is not differentiable, we usually instead optimize the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Junfu Pu , Wengang Zhou , Hezhen Hu , Houqiang Li

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

There have been recent advances in computer-based recognition of isolated, citation-form signs from video. There are many challenges for such a task, not least the naturally occurring inter- and intra- signer synchronic variation in sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Carol Neidle

Spoken language recognition (SLR) refers to the automatic process used to determine the language present in a speech sample. SLR is an important task in its own right, for example, as a tool to analyze or categorize large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Luciana Ferrer , Diego Castan , Mitchell McLaren , Aaron Lawson

Independent Sign Language Recognition is a complex visual recognition problem that combines several challenging tasks of Computer Vision due to the necessity to exploit and fuse information from hand gestures, body features and facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Agelos Kratimenos , Georgios Pavlakos , Petros Maragos

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