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Sign language is a fundamental means of communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) community, enabling nuanced expression through gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. Despite its critical role in facilitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Brettmann , Jakob Grävinghoff , Marlene Rüschoff , Marie Westhues

Changes in facial expression, head movement, body movement and gesture movement are remarkable cues in sign language recognition, and most of the current continuous sign language recognition(CSLR) research methods mainly focus on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

Fingerspelling in sign language has been the means of communicating technical terms and proper nouns when they do not have dedicated sign language gestures. Automatic recognition of fingerspelling can help resolve communication barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Kamala Gajurel , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Automatic sign language recognition plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between deaf communities and hearing individuals; however, most available datasets focus on American Sign Language. For Romanian Isolated Sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cătălin-Alexandru Rîpanu , Andrei-Theodor Hotnog , Giulia-Stefania Imbrea , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

This paper employs a multimodal approach for continuous sign recognition by first using ML for detecting the start and end frames of signs in videos of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences, and then by recognizing the segmented signs. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mingyu Zhao , Zhanfu Yang , Yang Zhou , Zhaoyang Xia , Can Jin , Xiaoxiao He , Dimitris N. Metaxas

The goal of this work is to develop self-sufficient framework for Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) that addresses key issues of sign language recognition. These include the need for complex multi-scale features such as hands,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Youngjoon Jang , Youngtaek Oh , Jae Won Cho , Myungchul Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , In So Kweon , Joon Son Chung

A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 M. Madhiarasan , Partha Pratim Roy

Hand gesture-based Sign Language Recognition (SLR) serves as a crucial communication bridge between deaf and non-deaf individuals. While Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are common, they are limited by their reliance on fixed skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Koki Hirooka , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Tatsuya Murakami , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Yong Seok Hwang , Jungpil Shin

Many continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) studies adopt transformer-based architectures for sequence modeling due to their powerful capacity for capturing global contexts. Nevertheless, vanilla self-attention, which serves as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hossein Ranjbar , Alireza Taheri

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has mostly been applied on datasets containing signs executed slowly and clearly by a limited group of signers. In real-world scenarios, however, we are met with challenging visual conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Mathieu De Coster , Ellen Rushe , Ruth Holmes , Anthony Ventresque , Joni Dambre

Conventional Deep Learning frameworks for continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) are comprised of a single or multi-modal feature extractor, a sequence-learning module, and a decoder for outputting the glosses. The sequence learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Neena Aloysius , Geetha M , Prema Nedungadi

Sign language recognition from sequences of monocular images or 2D poses is a challenging field, not only due to the difficulty to infer 3D information from 2D data, but also due to the temporal relationship between the sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Silvan Ferreira , Esdras Costa , Márcio Dahia , Jampierre Rocha

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between the hearing and vocally impaired community and the rest of the society. Word-level sign language recognition (WSLR) is the first important step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Anirudh Tunga , Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati , Juan Wachs

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a challenging research area in computer vision. To tackle the annotation bottleneck in SLR, we formulate the problem of Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition (ZS-SLR) and propose a two-stream model from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Md Hadiuzzaman , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Jungpil Shin

The objective of this work is to annotate sign instances across a broad vocabulary in continuous sign language. We train a Transformer model to ingest a continuous signing stream and output a sequence of written tokens on a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Samuel Albanie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Current benchmarks for sign language recognition (SLR) focus mainly on isolated SLR, while there are limited datasets for continuous SLR (CSLR), which recognizes sequences of signs in a video. Additionally, existing CSLR datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Sarah Alyami , Hamzah Luqman , Sadam Al-Azani , Maad Alowaifeer , Yazeed Alharbi , Yaser Alonaizan

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is an essential yet challenging task since sign language is performed with the fast and complex movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. %Skeleton Aware Multi-modal Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Maxim Novopoltsev , Leonid Verkhovtsev , Ruslan Murtazin , Dmitriy Milevich , Iuliia Zemtsova

The ultimate goal of continuous sign language recognition(CSLR) is to facilitate the communication between special people and normal people, which requires a certain degree of real-time and deploy-ability of the model. However, in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

Millions of hearing impaired people around the world routinely use some variants of sign languages to communicate, thus the automatic translation of a sign language is meaningful and important. Currently, there are two sub-problems in Sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jie Huang , Wengang Zhou , Qilin Zhang , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li