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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

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the process of converting the complex input text into a real video. Most previous works focused on the Text2Gloss, Gloss2Pose, Pose2Vid stages, and some concentrated on Prompt2Gloss and Text2Avatar stages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Phonetic representations are used when recording spoken languages, but no equivalent exists for recording signed languages. As a result, linguists have proposed several annotation systems that operate on the gloss or sub-unit level;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Harry Walsh , Abolfazl Ravanshad , Mariam Rahmani , Richard Bowden

Sign languages are multi-channel visual languages, where signers use a continuous 3D space to communicate.Sign Language Production (SLP), the automatic translation from spoken to sign languages, must embody both the continuous articulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Processing (SLP) is an interdisciplinary field comprised of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision. It is focused on the computational understanding, translation, and production of signed languages. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Amit Moryossef

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to map sign language videos to spoken language text. A common approach relies on gloss annotations as an intermediate representation, decomposing SLT into two sub-tasks: video-to-gloss recognition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jianyuan Guo , Peike Li , Trevor Cohn

Gloss-free Sign Language Production (SLP) offers a direct translation of spoken language sentences into sign language, bypassing the need for gloss intermediaries. This paper presents the Sign language Vector Quantization Network, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Eui Jun Hwang , Huije Lee , Jong C. Park

The goal of automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) is to translate spoken language to a continuous stream of sign language video at a level comparable to a human translator. If this was achievable, then it would revolutionise Deaf hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign language production (SLP) aims to translate spoken language sentences into a sequence of pose frames in a sign language, bridging the communication gap and promoting digital inclusion for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liqian Feng , Lintao Wang , Kun Hu , Dehui Kong , Zhiyong Wang

Signed Language Processing (SLP) concerns the automated processing of signed languages, the main means of communication of Deaf and hearing impaired individuals. SLP features many different tasks, ranging from sign recognition to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Viktor Schlegel , Marta Romeo , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the task of generating sign language video from spoken language inputs. The field has seen a range of innovations over the last few years, with the introduction of deep learning-based approaches providing…

To be truly understandable and accepted by Deaf communities, an automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) system must generate a photo-realistic signer. Prior approaches based on graphical avatars have proven unpopular, whereas recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

In this thesis, we propose a multitask learning based method to improve Neural Sign Language Translation (NSLT) consisting of two parts, a tokenization layer and Neural Machine Translation (NMT). The tokenization part focuses on how Sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Alptekin Orbay

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 translation from video to spoken text presents unique challenges owing to the distinct grammar, expression nuances, and high variation of visual appearance across different speakers and contexts. The intermediate gloss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Pooya Fayyazsanavi , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Jana Košecká

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task due to its cross-domain nature, involving the translation of visual-gestural language to text. Many previous methods employ an intermediate representation, i.e., gloss sequences, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjia Zhou , Zhigang Chen , Albert Clapés , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Sergio Escalera , Zhen Lei , Du Zhang

Translating written sentences from oral languages to a sequence of manual and non-manual gestures plays a crucial role in building a more inclusive society for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Facial expressions (non-manual), in particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Rafael Azevedo , Thiago Coutinho , João Ferreira , Thiago Gomes , Erickson Nascimento

Sign Language Translation (SLT) attempts to convert sign language videos into spoken sentences. However, many existing methods struggle with the disparity between visual and textual representations during end-to-end learning. Gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sobhan Asasi , Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Translation (SLT) first uses a Sign Language Recognition (SLR) system to extract sign language glosses from videos. Then, a translation system generates spoken language translations from the sign language glosses. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kayo Yin , Jesse Read

Sign Languages are the primary form of communication for Deaf communities across the world. To break the communication barriers between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and the hearing communities, it is imperative to build systems capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Chrysa Pratikaki , Panagiotis Filntisis , Athanasios Katsamanis , Anastasios Roussos , Petros Maragos
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