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Earlier Sign Language Production (SLP) models typically relied on autoregressive methods that generate output tokens one by one, which inherently provide temporal alignment. Although techniques like Teacher Forcing can prevent model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Maoxiao Ye , Xinfeng Ye , Mano Manoharan

Sign language production (SLP) aims to translate spoken language sentences into a sequence of pose frames in a sign language, bridging the communication gap and promoting digital inclusion for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liqian Feng , Lintao Wang , Kun Hu , Dehui Kong , Zhiyong Wang

In this work, we propose DARSLP, a simple gloss-free, transformer-based sign language production (SLP) framework that directly maps spoken-language text to sign pose sequences. We first train a pose autoencoder that encodes sign poses into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sumeyye Meryem Tasyurek , Tugce Kiziltepe , Hacer Yalim Keles

In this paper, we propose SignLLM, a multilingual Sign Language Production (SLP) large language model, which includes two novel multilingual SLP modes MLSF and Prompt2LangGloss that allow sign language gestures generation from query texts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chen Chen , Lei Wang , Ce Zheng , Chunyu Sui , Yapeng Tian

Sign language generation aims to produce diverse sign representations based on spoken language. However, achieving realistic and naturalistic generation remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of sign language, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Lechao Cheng , Feng Li , Shuo Wang , Richang Hong

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task due to its cross-domain nature, involving the translation of visual-gestural language to text. Many previous methods employ an intermediate representation, i.e., gloss sequences, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjia Zhou , Zhigang Chen , Albert Clapés , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Sergio Escalera , Zhen Lei , Du Zhang

Sign Languages are rich multi-channel languages, requiring articulation of both manual (hands) and non-manual (face and body) features in a precise, intricate manner. Sign Language Production (SLP), the automatic translation from spoken to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) models face significant performance limitations due to insufficient training data availability. In this article, we address the challenge of limited data in SLR by introducing a novel and lightweight sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Gaston Gustavo Rios , Pedro Dal Bianco , Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Quiroga , Oscar Stanchi , Santiago Ponte Ahón , Waldo Hasperué

State-of-the-art sign language translation (SLT) systems facilitate the learning process through gloss annotations, either in an end2end manner or by involving an intermediate step. Unfortunately, gloss labelled sign language data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

Sign language is a visual language that encompasses all linguistic features of natural languages and serves as the primary communication method for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Although many studies have successfully adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ronglai Zuo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Most existing sign language translation (SLT) datasets are limited in scale, lack multilingual coverage, and are costly to curate due to their reliance on expert annotation and controlled recording setup. Recently, Vision Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shakib Yazdani , Yasser Hamidullah , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith

Accurately annotating and controlling protein function from sequence data remains a major challenge, particularly within homologous families where annotated sequences are scarce and structural variation is minimal. We present a two-stage…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-22 Lorenzo Rosset , Martin Weigt , Francesco Zamponi

Signed languages are the primary means of communication for many deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Since signed languages exhibit all the fundamental linguistic properties of natural language, we believe that tools and theories of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Kayo Yin , Amit Moryossef , Julie Hochgesang , Yoav Goldberg , Malihe Alikhani

Deep learning models have improved sign language-to-text translation and made it easier for non-signers to understand signed messages. When the goal is spoken communication, a naive approach is to convert signed messages into text and then…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Toranosuke Manabe , Yuto Shibata , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Yoshimitsu Aoki

Sign Language Production (SLP) aims to generate sign videos corresponding to spoken language sentences, where the conversion of sign Glosses to Poses (G2P) is the key step. Due to the cross-modal semantic gap and the lack of word-action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Peipei Song , Shuo Wang , Dan Guo , Richang Hong

Sign Languages are the primary form of communication for Deaf communities across the world. To break the communication barriers between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and the hearing communities, it is imperative to build systems capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Chrysa Pratikaki , Panagiotis Filntisis , Athanasios Katsamanis , Anastasios Roussos , Petros Maragos

End-to-end sign language generation models do not accurately represent the prosody in sign language. A lack of temporal and spatial variations leads to poor-quality generated presentations that confuse human interpreters. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Mert İnan , Yang Zhong , Sabit Hassan , Lorna Quandt , Malihe Alikhani

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

Sign languages are essential for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Sign language generation systems have the potential to support communication by translating from written languages, such as English, into signed videos. However,…

Generating natural and linguistically accurate sign language avatars remains a formidable challenge. Current Sign Language Production (SLP) frameworks face a stark trade-off: direct text-to-pose models suffer from regression-to-the-mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jianhe Low , Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Maksym Ivashechkin , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden