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Sign Language Production (SLP) is a challenging task, given the limited resources available and the inherent diversity within sign data. As a result, previous works have suffered from the problem of regression to the mean, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Harry Walsh , Ben Saunders , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the task of generating sign language video from spoken language inputs. The field has seen a range of innovations over the last few years, with the introduction of deep learning-based approaches providing…

In this paper, we propose SignLLM, a multilingual Sign Language Production (SLP) large language model, which includes two novel multilingual SLP modes MLSF and Prompt2LangGloss that allow sign language gestures generation from query texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chen Chen , Lei Wang , Ce Zheng , Chunyu Sui , Yapeng Tian

Gloss-free sign language translation (SLT) is hindered by two key challenges: **inadequate sign representation** that fails to capture nuanced visual cues, and **sentence-level semantic misalignment** in current LLM-based methods, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhi Rao , Yucheng Zhou , Benjia Zhou , Yiqing Huang , Sergio Escalera , Jun Wan

Sign Languages are the primary form of communication for Deaf communities across the world. To break the communication barriers between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and the hearing communities, it is imperative to build systems capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Chrysa Pratikaki , Panagiotis Filntisis , Athanasios Katsamanis , Anastasios Roussos , Petros Maragos

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the true sources of performance improvements often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Jian He Low , Sobhan Asasi , Richard Bowden

Automatic Sign Language Translation requires the integration of both computer vision and natural language processing to effectively bridge the communication gap between sign and spoken languages. However, the deficiency in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ryan Wong , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Production (SLP) aims to generate sign videos corresponding to spoken language sentences, where the conversion of sign Glosses to Poses (G2P) is the key step. Due to the cross-modal semantic gap and the lack of word-action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Peipei Song , Shuo Wang , Dan Guo , Richang Hong

Gloss-free sign language translation (SLT) aims to develop well-performing SLT systems with no requirement for the costly gloss annotations, but currently still lags behind gloss-based approaches significantly. In this paper, we identify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinhui Ye , Xing Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Junwei Liang , Hui Xiong

Sign Language is the dominant yet non-primary form of communication language used in the deaf and hearing-impaired community. To make an easy and mutual communication between the hearing-impaired and the hearing communities, building a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera , Mohammad Sabokrou

Previous Sign Language Translation (SLT) methods achieve superior performance by relying on gloss annotations. However, labeling high-quality glosses is a labor-intensive task, which limits the further development of SLT. Although some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhigang Chen , Benjia Zhou , Jun Li , Jun Wan , Zhen Lei , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Guoqing Zhao

Sign language translation (SLT) converts continuous sign videos into spoken-language text, yet it remains challenging due to the intrinsic modality mismatch between visual signs and written text, particularly in gloss-free settings. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Changhao Lai , Rui Zhao , Xuewen Zhong , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen

Signed Language Processing (SLP) concerns the automated processing of signed languages, the main means of communication of Deaf and hearing impaired individuals. SLP features many different tasks, ranging from sign recognition to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Viktor Schlegel , Marta Romeo , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Sign language translation (SLT) is a challenging task that involves translating sign language images into spoken language. For SLT models to perform this task successfully, they must bridge the modality gap and identify subtle variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jungeun Kim , Hyeongwoo Jeon , Jongseong Bae , Ha Young Kim

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 Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to translate sign videos into spoken language. Inspired by the strong translation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) that are trained on extensive multilingual text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jia Gong , Lin Geng Foo , Yixuan He , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight, modular SLT framework, Spotter+GPT, that leverages the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) converts sign videos directly into spoken language sentences without relying on glosses. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable translation performance in gloss-free methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Junmyeong Lee , Jong C. Park

Sign Language Video Generation (SLVG) seeks to generate identity-preserving sign language videos from spoken language texts. Existing methods primarily rely on the single coarse condition (\eg, skeleton sequences) as the intermediary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Cong Wang , Zexuan Deng , Zhiwei Jiang , Yafeng Yin , Fei Shen , Zifeng Cheng , Shiping Ge , Shiwei Gan , Qing Gu

Many SLT systems quietly assume that brief chunks of signing map directly to spoken-language words. That assumption breaks down because signers often create meaning on the fly using context, space, and movement. We revisit SLT and argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yiyang Jiang , Li Zhang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Li Qing