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We present Large Sign Language Models (LSLM), a novel framework for translating 3D American Sign Language (ASL) by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as the backbone, which can benefit hearing-impaired individuals' virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sen Zhang , Xiaoxiao He , Di Liu , Zhaoyang Xia , Mingyu Zhao , Chaowei Tan , Vivian Li , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Mubbasir Kapadia

The lack of automatic evaluation metrics tailored for SignWriting presents a significant obstacle in developing effective transcription and translation models for signed languages. This paper introduces a comprehensive suite of evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Amit Moryossef , Rotem Zilberman , Ohad Langer

Sign language is a visual language expressed through hand movements and non-manual markers. Non-manual markers include facial expressions and head movements. These expressions vary across different nations. Therefore, specialized analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yui Tatsumi , Shoko Tanaka , Shunsuke Akamatsu , Takahiro Shindo , Hiroshi Watanabe

Continuously recognizing sign gestures and converting them to glosses plays a key role in bridging the gap between the hearing and hearing-impaired communities. This involves recognizing and interpreting the hands, face, and body gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Andrew Blayama Stephen , Assane Gueye

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

The recognition of sign language is a challenging task with an important role in society to facilitate the communication of deaf persons. We propose a new approach of Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network to sign language recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Cleison Correia de Amorim , David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

The need of sign language is increasing radically especially to hearing impaired community. Only few research groups try to automatically recognize sign language from video, colored gloves and etc. Their approach requires a valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-13 M. Krishnaveni , Dr. V. Radha

This research paper describes a realtime system for identifying American Sign Language (ASL) movements that employs modern computer vision and machine learning approaches. The suggested method makes use of the Mediapipe library for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ashutosh Bajpai , Ayush Sinha

New deep-learning architectures are created every year, achieving state-of-the-art results in image recognition and leading to the belief that, in a few years, complex tasks such as sign language translation will be considerably easier,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Alvaro Leandro Cavalcante Carneiro , Lucas de Brito Silva , Denis Henrique Pinheiro Salvadeo

We introduce the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign class examples to recognize the instances of unseen signs. To this end, we propose to utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yunus Can Bilge , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Hearing-impaired is the disability of partial or total hearing loss that causes a significant problem for communication with other people in society. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the sign languages that most commonly used language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Anthony S. Maida

With the growing Deaf and Hard of Hearing population worldwide and the persistent shortage of certified sign language interpreters, there is a pressing need for an efficient, signs-driven, integrated end-to-end translation system, from sign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Most state-of-the-art sign language models are trained on interpreter or isolated vocabulary data, which overlooks the variability that characterizes natural dialogue. However, human communication dynamically adapts to contexts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Saki Imai , Lee Kezar , Laurel Aichler , Mert Inan , Erin Walker , Alicia Wooten , Lorna Quandt , Malihe Alikhani

We present a method for recognition of isolated Swedish Sign Language signs. The method will be used in a game intended to help children training signing at home, as a complement to training with a teacher. The target group is not primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-19 Saad Akram , Jonas Beskow , Hedvig Kjellstrom

Despite the advent of deep learning in computer vision, the general handwriting recognition problem is far from solved. Most existing approaches focus on handwriting datasets that have clearly written text and carefully segmented labels. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Hai Pham , Amrith Setlur , Saket Dingliwal , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Barnabas Poczos , Kang Huang , Zhuo Li , Jae Lim , Collin McCormack , Tam Vu

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

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) is crucial for scalable sign language technology, yet language-specific approaches limit current models. To address this, we propose a one-shot learning approach that generalises across languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Toon Vandendriessche , Mathieu De Coster , Annelies Lejon , Joni Dambre

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ariel Basso Madjoukeng , Jérôme Fink , Pierre Poitier , Edith Belise Kenmogne , Benoit Frenay

Sign language translation is one of the important issues in communication between deaf and hearing people, as it expresses words through hand, body, and mouth movements. American Sign Language is one of the sign languages used, one of which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Gregorius Guntur Sunardi Putra , Adifa Widyadhani Chanda D'Layla , Dimas Wahono , Riyanarto Sarno , Agus Tri Haryono