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Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the true sources of performance improvements often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Jian He Low , Sobhan Asasi , 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

The complexity of Sign Language (SL) data processing brings many challenges. The current approach to recognition of SL signs aims to translate RGB sign language videos through pose information into Word-based ID Glosses, which serve to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Chunyu Sui , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Hongwei Yi , Hezhen Hu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a promising technology to bridge the communication gap between the deaf and the hearing people. Recently, researchers have adopted Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods, which usually require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Biao Fu , Peigen Ye , Liang Zhang , Pei Yu , Cong Hu , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

We introduce the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign class examples to recognize the instances of unseen signs. To this end, we propose to utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yunus Can Bilge , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

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 recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Ozgur Kara , Ogulcan Ozdemir , Lale Akarun

Sign language translation (SLT) is often decomposed into video-to-gloss recognition and gloss-to-text translation, where a gloss is a sequence of transcribed spoken-language words in the order in which they are signed. We focus here on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Amit Moryossef , Kayo Yin , Graham Neubig , Yoav Goldberg

Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) aims to transcribe untrimmed videos into glosses, which are typically textual words. Recent studies indicate that the lack of large datasets and precise annotations has become a bottleneck for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dejie Yang , Zhu Xu , Xinjie Gao , Yang Liu

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight, modular SLT framework, Spotter+GPT, that leverages the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

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 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

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 language recognition (SLR) is a weakly supervised task that annotates sign videos as textual glosses. Recent studies show that insufficient training caused by the lack of large-scale available sign datasets becomes the main bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiangbin Zheng , Yile Wang , Cheng Tan , Siyuan Li , Ge Wang , Jun Xia , Yidong Chen , Stan Z. Li

The primary concern of this research is to take American Sign Language (ASL) data through real time camera footage and be able to convert the data and information into text. Adding to that, we are also putting focus on creating a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hasnat Jamil Bhuiyan , Mubtasim Fuad Mozumder , Md. Rabiul Islam Khan , Md. Sabbir Ahmed , Nabuat Zaman Nahim

Sign language pre-training has gained increasing attention for its ability to enhance performance across various sign language understanding (SLU) tasks. However, existing methods often suffer from a gap between pre-training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zecheng Li , Wengang Zhou , Weichao Zhao , Kepeng Wu , Hezhen Hu , Houqiang Li

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

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

Despite recent successes with neural models for sign language translation (SLT), translation quality still lags behind spoken languages because of the data scarcity and modality gap between sign video and text. To address both problems, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Biao Zhang , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich

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