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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

Continuously recognizing sign gestures and converting them to glosses plays a key role in bridging the gap between the hearing and hearing-impaired communities. This involves recognizing and interpreting the hands, face, and body gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Andrew Blayama Stephen , Assane Gueye

We present SignAvatars, the first large-scale, multi-prompt 3D sign language (SL) motion dataset designed to bridge the communication gap for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. While there has been an exponentially growing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengdi Yu , Shaoli Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Tolga Birdal

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to convert sign language (SL) videos into spoken language text, thereby bridging the communication gap between the sign and the spoken community. While most existing works focus on translating a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sihan Tan , Taro Miyazaki , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Word-level sign language recognition (WSLR) has attracted attention because it is expected to overcome the communication barrier between people with speech impairment and those who can hear. In the WSLR problem, a method designed for action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Mizuki Maruyama , Shrey Singh , Katsufumi Inoue , Partha Pratim Roy , Masakazu Iwamura , Michifumi Yoshioka

With the growing Deaf and Hard of Hearing population worldwide and the persistent shortage of certified sign language interpreters, there is a pressing need for an efficient, signs-driven, integrated end-to-end translation system, from sign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

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 is an essential resource enabling access to communication and proper socioemotional development for individuals suffering from disabling hearing loss. As this population is expected to reach 700 million by 2050, the importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Cleison Correia de Amorim , Cleber Zanchettin

Automatic Sign Language (SL) recognition is an important task in the computer vision community. To build a robust SL recognition system, we need a considerable amount of data which is lacking particularly in Indian sign language (ISL). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Suvajit Patra , Arkadip Maitra , Megha Tiwari , K. Kumaran , Swathy Prabhu , Swami Punyeshwarananda , Soumitra Samanta

Sign language is the primary language for many Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) signers, yet most conversational AI systems still mediate interaction through spoken or written language. This spoken-language-centered interface can limit access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Youngmin Kim , Kyobin Choo , Jiwoo Park , Minseo Kim , Chanyoung Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Seong Jae Hwang

Sign language is a visual language that encompasses all linguistic features of natural languages and serves as the primary communication method for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Although many studies have successfully adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ronglai Zuo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Previous research underscored the potential of danmaku--a text-based commenting feature on videos--in engaging hearing audiences. Yet, for many Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals, American Sign Language (ASL) takes precedence over…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Si Chen , Haocong Cheng , Jason Situ , Desirée Kirst , Suzy Su , Saumya Malhotra , Lawrence Angrave , Qi Wang , Yun Huang

The goal of sign language recognition (SLR) is to help those who are hard of hearing or deaf overcome the communication barrier. Most existing approaches can be typically divided into two lines, i.e., Skeleton-based and RGB-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiaolong Shen , Zhedong Zheng , Yi Yang

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

People with speech and hearing impairments often rely on sign language to communicate with others but most of the general population cannot understand sign language and sign language itself is a difficult language to learn, so there is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Sai Charan Bodda , Palki Gupta , Gaurav Joshi , Ayush Chaturvedi

The deaf and hard of hearing community relies on American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary mode of communication, but communication with others who do not know ASL can be difficult, especially during emergencies where no interpreter is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Janice Nguyen , Y. Curtis Wang

AI technologies for Natural Languages have made tremendous progress recently. However, commensurate progress has not been made on Sign Languages, in particular, in recognizing signs as individual words or as complete sentences. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Prem Selvaraj , Gokul NC , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh Khapra

We present two solutions to sentence-level SLR. Sentence-level SLR required mapping videos of sign language sentences to sequences of gloss labels. Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) has been used as the classifier level of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Atra Akandeh

Current continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) methods struggle with handling diverse samples. Although dynamic convolutions are ideal for this task, they mainly focus on spatial modeling and fail to capture the temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sheng Liu , Yiheng Yu , Yuan Feng , Min Xu , Zhelun Jin , Yining Jiang , Tiantian Yuan

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung