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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

To promote inclusion and ensuring effective communication for those who rely on sign language as their main form of communication, sign language recognition (SLR) is crucial. Sign language recognition (SLR) seamlessly incorporates with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 A. E. M Ridwan , Mushfiqul Islam Chowdhury , Mekhala Mariam Mary , Md Tahmid Chowdhury Abir

The hearing-impaired community in India deserves the access to tools that help them communicate, however, there is limited known technology solutions that make use of Indian Sign Language (ISL) at present. Even though there are many ISL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Smruti Jagtap , Kanika Jadhav , Rushikesh Temkar , Minal Deshmukh

The human body communicates through various meaningful gestures, with sign language using hands being a prominent example. Bangla Sign Language Translation (BSLT) aims to bridge communication gaps for the deaf and mute community. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Rotan Hawlader Pranto , Shahnewaz Siddique

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to convert continuous sign language videos into textual sentences. As a typical multi-modal task, there exists an inherent modality gap between sign language videos and spoken language text, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rui Zhao , Liang Zhang , Biao Fu , Cong Hu , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen

Despite the recent success of deep learning in continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), deep models typically focus on the most discriminative features, ignoring other potentially non-trivial and informative contents. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hao Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Yun Zhou , Houqiang Li

The automatic interpretation of sign languages is a challenging task, as it requires the usage of high-level vision and high-level motion processing systems for providing accurate image perception. In this paper, we use Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Gustaf Halvardsson , Johanna Peterson , César Soto-Valero , Benoit Baudry

The goal of automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) is to translate spoken language to a continuous stream of sign language video at a level comparable to a human translator. If this was achievable, then it would revolutionise Deaf hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Contextual biasing is essential to improving the recognition of rare and domain-specific words in an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. While numerous methods have been proposed in recent years, most of them focus on offline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Kai-Chen Tsai , Tien-Hong Lo , Yun-Ting Sun , Berlin Chen

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) is an important topic within the areas of human-computer interaction and machine learning. On the one hand, it poses a complex challenge that requires the intervention of various knowledge areas,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , César Estrebou , Laura Lanzarini , Alejandro Rosete

Lip reading, aiming to recognize spoken sentences according to the given video of lip movements without relying on the audio stream, has attracted great interest due to its application in many scenarios. Although prior works that explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zhijie Lin , Zhou Zhao , Haoyuan Li , Jinglin Liu , Meng Zhang , Xingshan Zeng , Xiaofei He

Due to the emergence of many sign language datasets, isolated sign language recognition (ISLR) has made significant progress in recent years. In addition, the development of various advanced deep neural networks is another reason for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Siyuan Jing , Guangxue Wang , Haoyang Zhai , Qin Tao , Jun Yang , Bing Wang , Peng Jin

Sign language is commonly used by deaf or mute people to communicate but requires extensive effort to master. It is usually performed with the fast yet delicate movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Songyao Jiang , Bin Sun , Lichen Wang , Yue Bai , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a task that has not been studied relatively much compared to the study of Sign Language Recognition (SLR). However, the SLR is a study that recognizes the unique grammar of sign language, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Youngmin Kim , Minji Kwak , Dain Lee , Yeongeun Kim , Hyeongboo Baek

The goal of this paper is to develop state-of-the-art models for lip reading -- visual speech recognition. We develop three architectures and compare their accuracy and training times: (i) a recurrent model using LSTMs; (ii) a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Sign Language Translation (SLT) first uses a Sign Language Recognition (SLR) system to extract sign language glosses from videos. Then, a translation system generates spoken language translations from the sign language glosses. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kayo Yin , Jesse Read

In recent years, end-to-end speech recognition has emerged as a technology that integrates the acoustic, pronunciation dictionary, and language model components of the traditional Automatic Speech Recognition model. It is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tzu-Ting Yang , Hsin-Wei Wang , Berlin Chen

Conversational semantic role labeling (CSRL) is believed to be a crucial step towards dialogue understanding. However, it remains a major challenge for existing CSRL parser to handle conversational structural information. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Han Wu , Kun Xu , Linqi Song

This paper presents a novel framework for multi-talker automatic speech recognition without the need for auxiliary information. Serialized Output Training (SOT), a widely used approach, suffers from recognition errors due to speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Asahi Sakuma , Hiroaki Sato , Ryuga Sugano , Tadashi Kumano , Yoshihiko Kawai , Tetsuji Ogawa

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis