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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…

Zero-shot referring image segmentation aims to locate and segment the target region based on a referring expression, with the primary challenge of aligning and matching semantics across visual and textual modalities without training.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jiachen Li , Qing Xie , Renshu Gu , Jinyu Xu , Yongjian Liu , Xiaohan Yu

Labeling is the cornerstone of supervised machine learning, which has been exploited in a plethora of various applications, with sign language recognition being one of them. However, such algorithms must be fed with a huge amount of…

We present a new method for discovering a segmental discourse structure of a document while categorizing segment function. We demonstrate how retrieval of noun phrases and pronominal forms, along with a zero-sum weighting scheme, determines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Min-Yen Kan , Judith L. Klavans , Kathleen R. McKeown

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyu Zhao , Xiaoguang Li , Linjia Shi , Nasrin Imanpour , Song Wang

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

Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research domain, lying on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this domain is performed mostly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mathieu De Coster , Dimitar Shterionov , Mieke Van Herreweghe , Joni Dambre

In this paper we are interested in the problem of image segmentation given natural language descriptions, i.e. referring expressions. Existing works tackle this problem by first modeling images and sentences independently and then segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chenxi Liu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Alan Yuille

Sign language generation (SLG) aims to translate written texts into expressive sign motions, bridging communication barriers for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities. Recent studies formulate SLG within the language modeling framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ronglai Zuo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Qi Sun , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Most machine vision tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation) are based on images encoded and decoded by image compression algorithms (e.g., JPEG). However, these decoded images in the pixel domain introduce distortion, and they are optimized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jinming Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and critical step in many image-guided clinical approaches. Recent success of deep learning-based segmentation methods usually relies on a large amount of labeled data, which is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Rushi Jiao , Yichi Zhang , Le Ding , Rong Cai , Jicong Zhang

. Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a long challenging task in Computer Vision due to the difficulties in detecting the explicit boundaries between the words in a sign sentence. To deal with this challenge, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

A persistent challenge in sign language video processing, including the task of sign to written language translation, is how we learn representations of sign language in an effective and efficient way that preserves the important attributes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shester Gueuwou , Xiaodan Du , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Signature-based techniques give mathematical insight into the interactions between complex streams of evolving data. These insights can be quite naturally translated into numerical approaches to understanding streamed data, and perhaps…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-21 Terry Lyons , Andrew D. McLeod

Over the years, hand gesture recognition has been mostly addressed considering hand trajectories in isolation. However, in most sign languages, hand gestures are defined on a particular context (body region). We propose a pipeline to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Marc Martínez-Camarena , Jose Oramas , Mario Montagud-Climent , Tinne Tuytelaars

This paper presents our segmentation system developed for the MLP 2017 shared tasks on cross-lingual word segmentation and morpheme segmentation. We model both word and morpheme segmentation as character-level sequence labelling tasks. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Yan Shao

A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 M. Madhiarasan , Partha Pratim Roy

Semantic segmentation is essential in computer vision for various applications, yet traditional approaches face significant challenges, including the high cost of annotation and extensive training for supervised learning. Additionally, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yasufumi Kawano , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Semantic image segmentation is an important computer vision task that is difficult because it consists of both recognition and segmentation. The task is often cast as a structured output problem on an exponentially large output-space, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Payman Yadollahpour