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Handwriting recognition remains challenging for some of the most spoken languages, like Bangla, due to the complexity of line and word segmentation brought by the curvilinear nature of writing and lack of quality datasets. This paper solves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Sheikh Mohammad Jubaer , Nazifa Tabassum , Md. Ataur Rahman , Mohammad Khairul Islam

Sign language is a vital communication medium for the hearing-impaired community, enabling effective interaction and self-expression. To help bridge the communication gap between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals, a text-to-sign…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-24 MD. Ashikul Islam , Prato Dewan , Md Fuadul Islam , Md. Ataullha , M. Shahidur Rahman

Bangladeshi Sign Language (BdSL) - like other sign languages - is tough to learn for general people, especially when it comes to expressing letters. In this poster, we propose PerSign, a system that can reproduce a person's image by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Mohammad Imrul Jubair , Ali Ahnaf , Tashfiq Nahiyan Khan , Ullash Bhattacharjee , Tanjila Joti

This study focuses on recognizing Bangladeshi dialects and converting diverse Bengali accents into standardized formal Bengali speech. Dialects, often referred to as regional languages, are distinctive variations of a language spoken in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Md. Nazmus Sadat Samin , Jawad Ibn Ahad , Tanjila Ahmed Medha , Fuad Rahman , Mohammad Ruhul Amin , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Sign language recognition is a challenging problem where signs are identified by simultaneous local and global articulations of multiple sources, i.e. hand shape and orientation, hand movements, body posture, and facial expressions. Solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Hacer Yalim Keles

The absence of annotated sign language datasets has hindered the development of sign language recognition and translation technologies. In this paper, we introduce Bornil; a crowdsource-friendly, multilingual sign language data collection,…

This study presents BanStereoSet, a dataset designed to evaluate stereotypical social biases in multilingual LLMs for the Bangla language. In an effort to extend the focus of bias research beyond English-centric datasets, we have localized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mahammed Kamruzzaman , Abdullah Al Monsur , Shrabon Das , Enamul Hassan , Gene Louis Kim

This article presents a Bangla handwriting dataset named BanglaWriting that contains single-page handwritings of 260 individuals of different personalities and ages. Each page includes bounding-boxes that bounds each word, along with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 M. F. Mridha , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. Ameer Ali , Mazedul Islam Emon , Muhammad Mohsin Kabir

Accurate sign language understanding serves as a crucial communication channel for individuals with disabilities. Current sign language translation algorithms predominantly rely on RGB frames, which may be limited by fixed frame rates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xiao Wang , Yuehang Li , Fuling Wang , Bo Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Fingerspelling is a critical component of British Sign Language (BSL), used to spell proper names, technical terms, and words that lack established lexical signs. Fingerspelling recognition is challenging due to the rapid pace of signing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Alyssa Chan , Taein Kwon , Andrew Zisserman

Indian Sign Language has limited resources for developing machine learning and data-driven approaches for automated language processing. Though text/audio-based language processing techniques have shown colossal research interest and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Abhinav Joshi , Romit Mohanty , Mounika Kanakanti , Andesha Mangla , Sudeep Choudhary , Monali Barbate , Ashutosh Modi

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a core task in the field of AI-assisted disability. Traditional SLT methods are typically based on visible light videos, which are easily affected by factors such as lighting variations, rapid hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Duoqing Yang , Yao Rong , Fuling Wang , Jianing Li , Lin Zhu , Bo Jiang

Despite tremendous progress in natural language processing using deep learning techniques in recent years, sign language production and comprehension has advanced very little. One critical barrier is the lack of largescale datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yehong Jiang

Hate speech on digital platforms has become a growing concern globally, especially in linguistically diverse countries like Bangladesh, where regional dialects play a major role in everyday communication. Despite progress in hate speech…

Sign language processing technology development relies on extensive and reliable datasets, instructions, and ethical guidelines. We present a comprehensive Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset (AzSLD) collected from diverse sign language users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Nigar Alishzade , Jamaladdin Hasanov

For a long time, detecting hand gestures and recognizing them as letters or numbers has been a challenging task. This creates communication barriers for individuals with disabilities. This paper introduces a new dataset, the Annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Sanyam Jain

Sign language recognition is a challenging and often underestimated problem comprising multi-modal articulators (handshape, orientation, movement, upper body and face) that integrate asynchronously on multiple streams. Learning powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Oscar Koller

Character recognition is the fundamental part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Word recognition, sentence transcription, document digitization, and language processing are some of the higher-order activities that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mirza Raquib , Asif Pervez Polok , Kedar Nath Biswas , Farida Siddiqi Prity , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

Sign language recognition has attracted the interest of researchers in recent years. While numerous approaches have been proposed for European and Asian sign languages recognition, very limited attempts have been made to develop similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hamzah Luqman

Bangla handwriting recognition is becoming a very important issue nowadays. It is potentially a very important task specially for Bangla speaking population of Bangladesh and West Bengal. By keeping that in our mind we are introducing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mithun Biswas , Rafiqul Islam , Gautam Kumar Shom , Md Shopon , Nabeel Mohammed , Sifat Momen , Md Anowarul Abedin