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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

American Sign Language (ASL) is the fourth most commonly used language in the United States and is the language most commonly used by Deaf people in the United States and the English-speaking regions of Canada. Unfortunately, until…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Nicholas Wilkins , Beck Cordes Galbraith , Ifeoma Nwogu

In the past decades the set of human tasks that are solved by machines was extended dramatically. From simple image classification problems researchers now move towards solving more sophisticated and vital problems, like, autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Evgeny Izutov

Bangladeshi Sign Language (BdSL) is a commonly used medium of communication for the hearing-impaired people in Bangladesh. A real-time BdSL interpreter with no controlled lab environment has a broad social impact and an interesting avenue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Oishee Bintey Hoque , Mohammad Imrul Jubair , Al-Farabi Akash , Saiful Islam

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman

Communication barriers pose significant challenges for individuals with hearing and speech impairments, often limiting their ability to effectively interact in everyday environments. This project introduces a real-time assistive technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Brandone Fonya , Clarence Worrell

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

This study explores integrating sign language into virtual reality (VR) by examining the comprehensibility and user experience of viewing American Sign Language (ASL) videos captured with body-mounted 360-degree cameras. Ten participants…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Gauri Umesh Rajmane , Ziming Li , Tae Oh , Roshan Peiris

In this work, our goals are two fold: large-vocabulary continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), and sign language retrieval. To this end, we introduce a multi-task Transformer model, CSLR2, that is able to ingest a signing sequence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Charles Raude , K R Prajwal , Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman , Gül Varol

Imagine a humanoid that can safely and creatively dance with a human, adapting to its partner's proficiency, using haptic signaling as a primary form of communication. While today's AI systems excel at text or voice-based interaction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bermet Burkanova , Payam Jome Yazdian , Chuxuan Zhang , Trinity Evans , Paige Tuttösí , Angelica Lim

Subtle hand differences make sign language recognition challenging, yet many existing methods rely on encoders pretrained on generic action datasets that poorly capture such fine-grained cues. We propose a self-supervised pretraining method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kunyuan Xie , Zhixi Cai , Kalin Stefanov

Systems that can efficiently search collections of sign language videos have been highlighted as a useful application of sign language technology. However, the problem of searching videos beyond individual keywords has received limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Amanda Duarte , Samuel Albanie , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Gül Varol

We propose a sign language translation system based on human keypoint estimation. It is well-known that many problems in the field of computer vision require a massive amount of dataset to train deep neural network models. The situation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Sang-Ki Ko , Chang Jo Kim , Hyedong Jung , Choongsang Cho

Sign language is one of the most effective communication tools for people with hearing difficulties. Most existing works focus on improving the performance of sign language tasks on RGB videos, which may suffer from degraded recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Pengyu Zhang , Hao Yin , Zeren Wang , Wenyue Chen , Shengming Li , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Progress in machine understanding of sign languages has been slow and hampered by limited data. In this paper, we present FSboard, an American Sign Language fingerspelling dataset situated in a mobile text entry use case, collected from 147…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Manfred Georg , Garrett Tanzer , Saad Hassan , Maximus Shengelia , Esha Uboweja , Sam Sepah , Sean Forbes , Thad Starner

We address the problem of American Sign Language fingerspelling recognition in the wild, using videos collected from websites. We introduce the largest data set available so far for the problem of fingerspelling recognition, and the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Bowen Shi , Aurora Martinez Del Rio , Jonathan Keane , Jonathan Michaux , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Fingerspelling, in which words are signed letter by letter, is an important component of American Sign Language. Most previous work on automatic fingerspelling recognition has assumed that the boundaries of fingerspelling regions in signing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Sign language translation has historically been peripheral to mainstream machine translation research. In order to help converge the fields, we introduce FLEURS-ASL, an extension of the multiway parallel benchmarks FLORES (for text) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Garrett Tanzer

Sign language recognition is important for natural and convenient communication between deaf community and hearing majority. We take the highly efficient initial step of automatic fingerspelling recognition system using convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Byeongkeun Kang , Subarna Tripathi , Truong Q. Nguyen

The target of this research is to experiment, iterate and recommend a system that is successful in recognition of American Sign Language (ASL). It is a challenging as well as an interesting problem that if solved will bring a leap in social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Dhruv Rathi