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Automatic sign language processing is gaining popularity in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research (Yin et al., 2021). In machine translation (MT) in particular, sign language translation based on glosses is a prominent approach. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mathias Müller , Zifan Jiang , Amit Moryossef , Annette Rios , Sarah Ebling

Simultaneous speech translation (SST) outputs translations in parallel with streaming speech input, balancing translation quality and latency. While large language models (LLMs) have been extended to handle the speech modality, streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Keqi Deng , Wenxi Chen , Xie Chen , Philip C. Woodland

Sign language is the primary language for people with a hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) is the automatic recognition of sign language, which represents a challenging problem for computers, though some progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Roman Töngi

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional generalization capabilities for downstream tasks. Due to its efficiency, prompt learning has gradually become a more effective and efficient method for transferring VLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenhao Ding , Xinyuan Gao , Songlin Dong , Jizhou Han , Qiang Wang , Zhengdong Zhou , Yuhang He , Yihong Gong

This paper presents a study on strategies to enhance the translation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in the context of machine translation (MT) tasks. The paper proposes a novel paradigm consisting of three stages: Secondary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jiaxin Guo , Hao Yang , Zongyao Li , Daimeng Wei , Hengchao Shang , Xiaoyu Chen

Advances in deep learning are re-defining how visual data is processed and understand by the machines. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated prominent performance in computer vision related tasks. However, their performance…

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 translation (SLT) aims to interpret sign video sequences into text-based natural language sentences. Sign videos consist of continuous sequences of sign gestures with no clear boundaries in between. Existing SLT models usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dongxu Li , Chenchen Xu , Xin Yu , Kaihao Zhang , Ben Swift , Hanna Suominen , Hongdong Li

In this work, we are dedicated to leveraging the BERT pre-training success and modeling the domain-specific statistics to fertilize the sign language recognition~(SLR) model. Considering the dominance of hand and body in sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Jiaxin Shi , Houqiang Li

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) aims to translate a signing sequence into a sentence. It is very challenging as sign language is rich in vocabulary, while many among them contain similar gestures and motions. Moreover, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Zhaoyang Yang , Zhenmei Shi , Xiaoyong Shen , Yu-Wing Tai

We have come up with a research that hopes to provide a bridge between the users of American Sign Language and the users of spoken language and Indian Sign Language (ISL). The research enabled us to create a novel framework that we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Malay Kumar , S. Sarvajit Visagan , Tanish Sarang Mahajan , Anisha Natarajan

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) on large-scale image-text pairs has recently witnessed rapid progress for learning cross-modal representations. Existing pre-training methods either directly concatenate image representation and text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Haiyang Xu , Fuli Luo , Wei Wang , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang

This paper explores the application of T5 models for Saudi Sign Language (SSL) translation using a novel dataset. The SSL dataset includes three challenging testing protocols, enabling comprehensive evaluation across different scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ali Alhejab , Tomas Zelezny , Lamya Alkanhal , Ivan Gruber , Yazeed Alharbi , Jakub Straka , Vaclav Javorek , Marek Hruz , Badriah Alkalifah , Ahmed Ali

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhao Li , Qiangchang Wang , Xianjing Meng , Zhibin Wu , Yilong Yin

The objective of this work is to align asynchronous subtitles in sign language videos with limited labelled data. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel framework with the following contributions: (1) we leverage fundamental grammatical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Youngjoon Jang , Jeongsoo Choi , Junseok Ahn , Joon Son Chung

ChatGPT is a language model based on Generative AI. Existing research work on ChatGPT focused on its use in various domains. However, its potential for Sign Language Translation (SLT) is yet to be explored. This paper addresses this void.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a valuable and robust training methodology for contemporary Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), enabling unsupervised pretraining on a 'pretext task' that does not require ground-truth labels/annotation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sotirios Konstantakos , Jorgen Cani , Ioannis Mademlis , Despina Ioanna Chalkiadaki , Yuki M. Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

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

Soft prompt learning has recently emerged as one of the methods of choice for adapting V&L models to a downstream task using a few training examples. However, current methods significantly overfit the training data, suffering from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) focuses on interpreting and transcribing sequences of sign language gestures in videos. In this work, we propose CLIP sign language adaptation (CLIP-SLA), a novel CSLR framework that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sarah Alyami , Hamzah Luqman