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To promote inclusion and ensuring effective communication for those who rely on sign language as their main form of communication, sign language recognition (SLR) is crucial. Sign language recognition (SLR) seamlessly incorporates with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 A. E. M Ridwan , Mushfiqul Islam Chowdhury , Mekhala Mariam Mary , Md Tahmid Chowdhury Abir

This paper presents a transfer learning method in speech emotion recognition based on a Time-Delay Neural Network (TDNN) architecture. A major challenge in the current speech-based emotion detection research is data scarcity. The proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Sitong Zhou , Homayoon Beigi

Deep Learning methods employ multiple processing layers to learn hierarchial representations of data. They have already been deployed in a humongous number of applications and have produced state-of-the-art results. Recently with the growth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Sarvesh Patil

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

Transfer learning (TL) is widely used in conventional hybrid automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, to transfer the knowledge from source to target language. TL can be applied to end-to-end (E2E) ASR system such as recurrent neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Vikas Joshi , Rui Zhao , Rupesh R. Mehta , Kshitiz Kumar , Jinyu Li

This research explores using lightweight deep neural network architectures to enable the humanoid robot Pepper to understand American Sign Language (ASL) and facilitate non-verbal human-robot interaction. First, we introduce a lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 JongYoon Lim , Inkyu Sa , Bruce MacDonald , Ho Seok Ahn

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is an essential yet challenging task since sign language is performed with the fast and complex movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. %Skeleton Aware Multi-modal Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Maxim Novopoltsev , Leonid Verkhovtsev , Ruslan Murtazin , Dmitriy Milevich , Iuliia Zemtsova

Sign language translation (SLT), which generates text in a spoken language from visual content in a sign language, is important to assist the hard-of-hearing community for their communications. Inspired by neural machine translation (NMT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jichao Kan , Kun Hu , Markus Hagenbuchner , Ah Chung Tsoi , Mohammed Bennamounm , Zhiyong Wang

End-to-end speech recognition is a promising technology for enabling compact automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems since it can unify the acoustic and language model into a single neural network. However, as a drawback, training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yotaro Kubo , Shigeki Karita , Michiel Bacchiani

Transfer Learning (TL) plays a crucial role when a given dataset has insufficient labeled examples to train an accurate model. In such scenarios, the knowledge accumulated within a model pre-trained on a source dataset can be transferred to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Tushar Semwal , Gaurav Mathur , Promod Yenigalla , Shivashankar B. Nair

Emotional voice communication plays a crucial role in effective daily interactions. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals often rely on facial expressions to supplement sign language to convey emotions, as the use of voice is limited.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hyunchul Lim , Minghan Gao , Franklin Mingzhe Li , Nam Anh Dang , Ianip Sit , Michelle M Olson , Cheng Zhang

Modern computational linguistic software cannot produce important aspects of sign language translation. Using some researches we deduce that the majority of automatic sign language translation systems ignore many aspects when they generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-15 Mehrez Boulares , Mohamed Jemni

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Gestural language is used by deaf & mute communities to communicate through hand gestures & body movements that rely on visual-spatial patterns known as sign languages. Sign languages, which rely on visual-spatial patterns of hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Rajat Singhal , Jatin Gupta , Akhil Sharma , Anushka Gupta , Navya Sharma

This research paper describes a realtime system for identifying American Sign Language (ASL) movements that employs modern computer vision and machine learning approaches. The suggested method makes use of the Mediapipe library for feature…

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

Current sign language machine translation systems rely on recognizing hand movements, facial expressions and body postures, and natural language processing, to convert signs into text. Recent approaches use Transformer architectures to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Translating natural languages into sign languages is a highly complex and underexplored task. Despite growing interest in accessibility and inclusivity, the development of robust translation systems remains hindered by the limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Luana Bulla , Gabriele Tuccio , Misael Mongiovì , Aldo Gangemi

We introduce a goal-oriented conversational AI system enhanced with American Sign Language (ASL) instructions, presenting the first implementation of such a system on a worldwide multimodal conversational AI platform. Accessible through a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Mert İnan , Katherine Atwell , Anthony Sicilia , Lorna Quandt , Malihe Alikhani

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman

Models of sign language have historically lagged behind those for spoken language (text and speech). Recent work has greatly improved their performance on tasks like sign language translation and isolated sign recognition. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Serpil Karabüklü , Kanishka Misra , Shester Gueuwou , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu