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Effective communication is paramount for the inclusion of deaf individuals in society. However, persistent communication barriers due to limited Sign Language (SL) knowledge hinder their full participation. In this context, Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Carlos Eduardo G. R. Alves , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Thiago M. Paixão

Significant progress has been made recently on challenging tasks in automatic sign language understanding, such as sign language recognition, translation and production. However, these works have focused on datasets with relatively few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alvaro Budria , Laia Tarres , Gerard I. Gallego , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

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

Recently, there have been efforts to improve the performance in sign language recognition by designing self-supervised learning methods. However, these methods capture limited information from sign pose data in a frame-wise learning manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Hezhen Hu , Min Wang , Houqiang Li

Conventional Deep Learning frameworks for continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) are comprised of a single or multi-modal feature extractor, a sequence-learning module, and a decoder for outputting the glosses. The sequence learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Neena Aloysius , Geetha M , Prema Nedungadi

Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction,…

In this project, we have developed a sign language tutor that lets users learn isolated signs by watching recorded videos and by trying the same signs. The system records the user's video and analyses it. If the sign is recognized, both…

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

Spoken language recognition (SLR) is the task of automatically identifying the language present in a speech signal. Existing SLR models are either too computationally expensive or too large to run effectively on devices with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Oriol Nieto , Zeyu Jin , Franck Dernoncourt , Justin Salamon

A key challenge in continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) is to efficiently capture long-range spatial interactions over time from the video input. To address this challenge, we propose TCNet, a hybrid network that effectively models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hui Lu , Albert Ali Salah , Ronald Poppe

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task due to its cross-domain nature, involving the translation of visual-gestural language to text. Many previous methods employ an intermediate representation, i.e., gloss sequences, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjia Zhou , Zhigang Chen , Albert Clapés , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Sergio Escalera , Zhen Lei , Du Zhang

Sign languages are visual languages, with vocabularies as rich as their spoken language counterparts. However, current deep-learning based Sign Language Production (SLP) models produce under-articulated skeleton pose sequences from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

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

Sign language recognition is a challenging and often underestimated problem comprising multi-modal articulators (handshape, orientation, movement, upper body and face) that integrate asynchronously on multiple streams. Learning powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Oscar Koller

This paper proposes a simple transfer learning baseline for sign language translation. Existing sign language datasets (e.g. PHOENIX-2014T, CSL-Daily) contain only about 10K-20K pairs of sign videos, gloss annotations and texts, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Yutong Chen , Fangyun Wei , Xiao Sun , Zhirong Wu , Stephen Lin

Due to the emergence of many sign language datasets, isolated sign language recognition (ISLR) has made significant progress in recent years. In addition, the development of various advanced deep neural networks is another reason for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Siyuan Jing , Guangxue Wang , Haoyang Zhai , Qin Tao , Jun Yang , Bing Wang , Peng Jin

Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a challenging research task due to the lack of accurate annotation on the temporal sequence of sign language data. The recent popular usage is a hybrid model based on "CNN + RNN" for CSLR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

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

Machine learning models fundamentally rely on large quantities of high-quality data. Collecting the necessary data for these models can be challenging due to cost, scarcity, and privacy restrictions. Signed languages are visual languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Harry Walsh , Maksym Ivashechkin , Richard Bowden

Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) aims to recognize signs in untrimmed sign language videos to textual glosses. A key challenge of CSLR is achieving effective cross-modality alignment between video and gloss sequences to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Leming Guo , Wanli Xue , Shengyong Chen