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People with vocal and hearing disabilities use sign language to express themselves using visual gestures and signs. Although sign language is a solution for communication difficulties faced by deaf people, there are still problems as most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mallikharjuna Rao K , Harleen Kaur , Sanjam Kaur Bedi , M A Lekhana

Our objective is to translate continuous sign language into spoken language text. Inspired by the way human interpreters rely on context for accurate translation, we incorporate additional contextual cues together with the signing video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Youngjoon Jang , Haran Raajesh , Liliane Momeni , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

Sign language is a vital communication medium for the hearing-impaired community, enabling effective interaction and self-expression. To help bridge the communication gap between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals, a text-to-sign…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-24 MD. Ashikul Islam , Prato Dewan , Md Fuadul Islam , Md. Ataullha , M. Shahidur Rahman

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) converts the human voice into readily understandable and categorized text or words. Although Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, there have been very few studies on Bengali…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Mir Sayeed Mohammad , Azizul Zahid , Md Asif Iqbal

To promote inclusion and ensuring effective communication for those who rely on sign language as their main form of communication, sign language recognition (SLR) is crucial. Sign language recognition (SLR) seamlessly incorporates with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 A. E. M Ridwan , Mushfiqul Islam Chowdhury , Mekhala Mariam Mary , Md Tahmid Chowdhury Abir

Sign language is a natural and visual form of language that uses movements and expressions to convey meaning, serving as a crucial means of communication for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH). However, the number of people…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guanren Qiao , Sixu Lin , Ronglai Zuo , Zhizheng Wu , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

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 Language Recognition is a challenging research domain. It has recently seen several advancements with the increased availability of data. In this paper, we introduce the BosphorusSign22k, a publicly available large scale sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Oğulcan Özdemir , Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu , Necati Cihan Camgöz , Lale Akarun

Sign languages are essential for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Sign language generation systems have the potential to support communication by translating from written languages, such as English, into signed videos. However,…

Sign Language Translation has attained considerable success recently, raising hopes for improved communication with the Deaf. A pre-processing step called tokenization improves the success of translations. Tokens can be learned from sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Alptekin Orbay , Lale Akarun

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

One of the main challenges of the sign language recognition task is the difficulty of collecting a suitable dataset due to the gap between hard-of-hearing and hearing societies. In addition, the sign language in each country differs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Alexander Kapitanov , Karina Kvanchiani , Alexander Nagaev , Elizaveta Petrova

Bangladeshi Sign Language (BdSL) is a commonly used medium of communication for the hearing-impaired people in Bangladesh. Developing a real time system to detect these signs from images is a great challenge. In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Oishee Bintey Hoque , Mohammad Imrul Jubair , Md. Saiful Islam , Al-Farabi Akash , Alvin Sachie Paulson

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

Ensuring that the benefits of sign language technologies are distributed equitably among all community members is crucial. Thus, it is important to address potential biases and inequities that may arise from the design or use of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Katherine Atwell , Danielle Bragg , Malihe Alikhani

Existing work on sign language translation - that is, translation from sign language videos into sentences in a written language - has focused mainly on (1) data collected in a controlled environment or (2) data in a specific domain, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Traditionally, sign language resources have been collected in controlled settings for specific tasks involving supervised sign classification or linguistic studies accompanied by specific annotation type. To date, very few who explored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Boris Mocialov , Graham Turner , Helen Hastie

Sign language recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Ozgur Kara , Ogulcan Ozdemir , Lale Akarun

Recent progress in fine-grained gesture and action classification, and machine translation, point to the possibility of automated sign language recognition becoming a reality. A key stumbling block in making progress towards this goal is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Samuel Albanie , Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Neil Fox , Andrew Zisserman

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