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Sign language serves as the primary meaning of communication for the deaf-mute community. Different from spoken language, it commonly conveys information by the collaboration of manual features, i.e., hand gestures and body movements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Wengang Zhou , Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Zecheng Li , Houqiang Li

Sign Languages are expressed through hand and upper body gestures as well as facial expressions. Therefore, Sign Language Recognition (SLR) needs to focus on all such cues. Previous work uses hand-crafted mechanisms or network aggregation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Çağrı Gökçe , Oğulcan Özdemir , Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu , Lale Akarun

Our goal is to train a generative model of 3D hand motions, conditioned on natural language descriptions specifying motion characteristics such as handshapes, locations, finger/hand/arm movements. To this end, we automatically build pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Léore Bensabath , Mathis Petrovich , Gül Varol

Sign language translation (SLT), which generates text in a spoken language from visual content in a sign language, is important to assist the hard-of-hearing community for their communications. Inspired by neural machine translation (NMT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jichao Kan , Kun Hu , Markus Hagenbuchner , Ah Chung Tsoi , Mohammed Bennamounm , Zhiyong Wang

The proliferation of several streaming services in recent years has now made it possible for a diverse audience across the world to view the same media content, such as movies or TV shows. While translation and dubbing services are being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Sudha Krishnamurthy , Vimal Bhat , Abhinav Jain

Achieving expressive 3D motion reconstruction and automatic generation for isolated sign words can be challenging, due to the lack of real-world 3D sign-word data, the complex nuances of signing motions, and the cross-modal understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Lu Dong , Lipisha Chaudhary , Fei Xu , Xiao Wang , Mason Lary , Ifeoma Nwogu

The Sign Language Production (SLP) project aims to automatically translate spoken languages into sign sequences. Our approach focuses on the transformation of sign gloss sequences into their corresponding sign pose sequences (G2P). In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Pan Xie , Qipeng Zhang , Taiyi Peng , Hao Tang , Yao Du , Zexian Li

Effective communication is paramount for the inclusion of deaf individuals in society. However, persistent communication barriers due to limited Sign Language (SL) knowledge hinder their full participation. In this context, Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Carlos Eduardo G. R. Alves , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Thiago M. Paixão

In this paper, we introduce a novel text-to-avatar generation method that separately generates the human body and the clothes and allows high-quality animation on the generated avatar. While recent advancements in text-to-avatar generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jionghao Wang , Yuan Liu , Zhiyang Dou , Zhengming Yu , Yongqing Liang , Cheng Lin , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song

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

Sign languages serve as essential communication systems for individuals with hearing and speech impairments. However, digital linguistic dataset resources for underrepresented sign languages, such as Nepali Sign Language (NSL), remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Birat Poudel , Satyam Ghimire , Sijan Bhattarai , Saurav Bhandari , Suramya Sharma Dahal

Independent Sign Language Recognition is a complex visual recognition problem that combines several challenging tasks of Computer Vision due to the necessity to exploit and fuse information from hand gestures, body features and facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Agelos Kratimenos , Georgios Pavlakos , Petros Maragos

There is an undeniable communication barrier between deaf people and people with normal hearing ability. Although innovations in sign language translation technology aim to tear down this communication barrier, the majority of existing sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Biyi Fang , Jillian Co , Mi Zhang

Accurate recognition and interpretation of sign language are crucial for enhancing communication accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. However, current approaches of Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Karina Kvanchiani , Roman Kraynov , Elizaveta Petrova , Petr Surovcev , Aleksandr Nagaev , Alexander Kapitanov

Audio is the primary modality for human communication and has driven the success of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. However, such audio-centric systems inherently exclude individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jeong Hun Yeo , Hyeongseop Rha , Sungjune Park , Junil Won , Yong Man Ro

This survey paper provides a comprehensive review of the use of diffusion models in natural language processing (NLP). Diffusion models are a class of mathematical models that aim to capture the diffusion of information or signals across a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hao Zou , Zae Myung Kim , Dongyeop Kang

Gestural language is used by deaf & mute communities to communicate through hand gestures & body movements that rely on visual-spatial patterns known as sign languages. Sign languages, which rely on visual-spatial patterns of hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Rajat Singhal , Jatin Gupta , Akhil Sharma , Anushka Gupta , Navya Sharma

The ability to generate diverse 3D articulated head avatars is vital to a plethora of applications, including augmented reality, cinematography, and education. Recent work on text-guided 3D object generation has shown great promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alexander W. Bergman , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein

Speech-driven 3D facial animation plays a key role in applications such as virtual avatars, gaming, and digital content creation. While existing methods have made significant progress in achieving accurate lip synchronization and generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yifang Pan , Karan Singh , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann