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Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) has become a key enabler of inclusive human-computer interaction, fostering seamless communication between deaf individuals and hearing communities. Despite significant advances in multimodal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiaofang Xiao , Guangchao Li , Guangrong Zhao , Qi Lin , Wen Ma , Hongkai Wen , Yanxiang Wang , Yiran Shen

Communication is defined as the act of sharing or exchanging information, ideas or feelings. To establish communication between two people, both of them are required to have knowledge and understanding of a common language. But in the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Sharvani Srivastava , Amisha Gangwar , Richa Mishra , Sudhakar Singh

After the interviews, it has been comprehended that speech-impaired individuals who use sign languages have difficulty communicating with other people who do not know sign language. Due to the communication problems, the sense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Arda Mavi , Zeynep Dikle

Despite existing pioneering works on sign language translation (SLT), there is a non-trivial obstacle, i.e., the limited quantity of parallel sign-text data. To tackle this parallel data bottleneck, we propose a sign back-translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hao Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Weizhen Qi , Junfu Pu , Houqiang Li

Like spoken languages, a single sign language expression could correspond to multiple valid textual interpretations. Hence, learning a rigid one-to-one mapping for sign language translation (SLT) models might be inadequate, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xin Shen , Lei Shen , Shaozu Yuan , Heming Du , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yu

Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) translation represents a low-resource NLP task due to the lack of large-scale datasets that address sentence-level translation. Correspondingly, existing research in this field has been limited to word and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Neelavro Saha , Rafi Shahriyar , Nafis Ashraf Roudra , Saadman Sakib , Annajiat Alim Rasel

We aim to solve the highly challenging task of generating continuous sign language videos solely from speech segments for the first time. Recent efforts in this space have focused on generating such videos from human-annotated text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Parul Kapoor , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Sindhu B Hegde , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Automatic sign language translation has gained particular interest in the computer vision and computational linguistics communities in recent years. Given each sign language country particularities, machine translation requires local data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ariel E. Stassi , Yanina Boria , J. Matías Di Martino , Gregory Randall

Sign language to spoken language audio translation is important to connect the hearing- and speech-challenged humans with others. We consider sign language videos with isolated sign sequences rather than continuous grammatical signing. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Harsh Kavediya , Vighnesh Nayak , Bheeshm Sharma , Balamurugan Palaniappan

Sign language is a gesture-based symbolic communication medium among speech and hearing impaired people. It also serves as a communication bridge between non-impaired and impaired populations. Unfortunately, in most situations, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Partha Pratim Roy , Umapada Pal

Bangladeshi Sign Language (BdSL) is a commonly used medium of communication for the hearing-impaired people in Bangladesh. A real-time BdSL interpreter with no controlled lab environment has a broad social impact and an interesting avenue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Oishee Bintey Hoque , Mohammad Imrul Jubair , Al-Farabi Akash , Saiful Islam

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

Language is a method by which individuals express their thoughts. Each language has its own set of alphabetic and numeric characters. People can communicate with one another through either oral or written communication. However, each…

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

Sign language processing technology development relies on extensive and reliable datasets, instructions, and ethical guidelines. We present a comprehensive Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset (AzSLD) collected from diverse sign language users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Nigar Alishzade , Jamaladdin Hasanov

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrated transformative capabilities in many applications that require automatically generating responses based on human instruction. However, the major challenge for building LLMs, particularly in Indic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shantipriya Parida , Shakshi Panwar , Kusum Lata , Sanskruti Mishra , Sambit Sekhar

The performance of a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis model depends on various factors, of which the quality of the training data is of utmost importance. Millions of data are collected around the globe for various languages, but resources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Sujitha Sathiyamoorthy , N Mohana , Anusha Prakash , Hema A Murthy

This paper presents Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Mumbai's (CDACM) submission to NLP Tools Contest on Statistical Machine Translation in Indian Languages (ILSMT) 2015 (collocated with ICON 2015). The aim of the contest was to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Raj Nath Patel , Prakash B. Pimpale

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 translation (SLT) addresses the problem of translating information from a sign language in video to a spoken language in text. Existing studies, while showing progress, are often limited to narrow domains and/or few sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Biao Zhang , Garrett Tanzer , Orhan Firat