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Sign language recognition (SLR) technology has enormous promise to improve communication and accessibility for the difficulty of hearing. This paper presents a novel approach for identifying gestures in TSL using the YOLOv5 object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Vipul Reddy. P , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. B , Sukriti

Hand gesture recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. It forms the basis of sign language for the visually impaired people. This work proposes a novel hand gesture recognizing system for the differently-abled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Subham Sharma , Sharmila Subudhi

The success of machine learning is deeply linked to the availability of high-quality training data, yet retrieving and manually labeling new data remains a time-consuming and error-prone process. Traditional annotation tools, such as Label…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sachin Kumar Singh , Ko Watanabe , Brian Moser , Shoya Ishimaru , Andreas Dengel

AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters and 100s of hours of data but remain only partially annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Colin Lea , Vasileios Baltatzis , Connor Gillis , Raja Kushalnagar , Lorna Quandt , Leah Findlater

Sign language recognition is a challenging problem where signs are identified by simultaneous local and global articulations of multiple sources, i.e. hand shape and orientation, hand movements, body posture, and facial expressions. Solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Hacer Yalim Keles

Vision-based sign language recognition aims at helping deaf people to communicate with others. However, most existing sign language datasets are limited to a small number of words. Due to the limited vocabulary size, models learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dongxu Li , Cristian Rodriguez Opazo , Xin Yu , Hongdong Li

According to interviews with people who work with speech impaired persons, speech impaired people have difficulties in communicating with other people around them who do not know the sign language, and this situation may cause them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Arda Mavi

One of the factors that have hindered progress in the areas of sign language recognition, translation, and production is the absence of large annotated datasets. Towards this end, we introduce How2Sign, a multimodal and multiview continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Amanda Duarte , Shruti Palaskar , Lucas Ventura , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Kenneth DeHaan , Florian Metze , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

This paper presents a real-time American Sign Language (ASL) recognition system utilizing a hybrid deep learning architecture combining 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. The system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Dawnena Key

Dyslexia affects reading and writing skills across many languages. This work describes a new application of YOLO-based object detection to isolate and label handwriting patterns (Normal, Reversal, Corrected) within synthetic images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nora Fink

Since American Sign Language (ASL) has no standard written form, Deaf signers frequently share videos in order to communicate in their native language. However, since both hands and face convey critical linguistic information in signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhaoyang Xia , Carol Neidle , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Despite tremendous progress in natural language processing using deep learning techniques in recent years, sign language production and comprehension has advanced very little. One critical barrier is the lack of largescale datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yehong Jiang

Training a real-time gesture recognition model heavily relies on annotated data. However, manual data annotation is costly and demands substantial human effort. In order to address this challenge, we propose a framework that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Junxiao Shen , Xuhai Xu , Ran Tan , Amy Karlson , Evan Strasnick

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Md Hadiuzzaman , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Jungpil Shin

Automatic sign language recognition 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, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , César Estrebou , Laura Lanzarini

Accurate recognition and interpretation of sign language are crucial for enhancing communication accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. However, current approaches of Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Karina Kvanchiani , Roman Kraynov , Elizaveta Petrova , Petr Surovcev , Aleksandr Nagaev , Alexander Kapitanov

We address the problem of automatic American Sign Language fingerspelling recognition from video. Prior work has largely relied on frame-level labels, hand-crafted features, or other constraints, and has been hampered by the scarcity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Bowen Shi , Karen Livescu

Sign language recognition has attracted the interest of researchers in recent years. While numerous approaches have been proposed for European and Asian sign languages recognition, very limited attempts have been made to develop similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hamzah Luqman

Hand gesture recognition possesses extensive applications in virtual reality, sign language recognition, and computer games. The direct interface of hand gestures provides us a new way for communicating with the virtual environment. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Iman Tavakoli Kazerooni

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