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Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has garnered significant attention from researchers in recent years, particularly the intricate domain of Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR), which presents heightened complexity compared to Isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

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

Sign language is the fundamental communication method among people who suffer from speech and hearing defects. The rest of the world doesn't have a clear idea of sign language. "Sign Language Communicator" (SLC) is designed to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Matheesha Fernando , Janaka Wijayanayake

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

Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research domain, lying on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this domain is performed mostly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mathieu De Coster , Dimitar Shterionov , Mieke Van Herreweghe , Joni Dambre

The primary concern of this research is to take American Sign Language (ASL) data through real time camera footage and be able to convert the data and information into text. Adding to that, we are also putting focus on creating a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hasnat Jamil Bhuiyan , Mubtasim Fuad Mozumder , Md. Rabiul Islam Khan , Md. Sabbir Ahmed , Nabuat Zaman Nahim

Hand gesture serves as a critical role in sign language. Current deep-learning-based sign language recognition (SLR) methods may suffer insufficient interpretability and overfitting due to limited sign data sources. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Yuechen Wang , Houqiang Li

This demo paper presents sign.mt, an open-source application pioneering real-time multilingual bi-directional translation between spoken and signed languages. Harnessing state-of-the-art open-source models, this tool aims to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Amit Moryossef

Understanding intricate and fast-paced movements of body parts is essential for the recognition and translation of sign language. The inclusion of additional information intended to identify and locate the moving body parts has been an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim , Rasman Mubtasim Swargo , Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

Sign language pre-training has gained increasing attention for its ability to enhance performance across various sign language understanding (SLU) tasks. However, existing methods often suffer from a gap between pre-training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zecheng Li , Wengang Zhou , Weichao Zhao , Kepeng Wu , Hezhen Hu , Houqiang Li

People with vocal and hearing disabilities use sign language to express themselves using visual gestures and signs. Although sign language is a solution for communication difficulties faced by deaf people, there are still problems as most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Mallikharjuna Rao K , Harleen Kaur , Sanjam Kaur Bedi , M A Lekhana

We present Large Sign Language Models (LSLM), a novel framework for translating 3D American Sign Language (ASL) by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as the backbone, which can benefit hearing-impaired individuals' virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sen Zhang , Xiaoxiao He , Di Liu , Zhaoyang Xia , Mingyu Zhao , Chaowei Tan , Vivian Li , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Mubbasir Kapadia

Although text recognition has significantly evolved over the years, state-of-the-art (SOTA) models still struggle in the wild scenarios due to complex backgrounds, varying fonts, uncontrolled illuminations, distortions and other artefacts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Amandeep Kumar , Shuvozit Ghose , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Yi-Zhe Song

Sign languages are dynamic visual languages that involve hand gestures, in combination with non manual elements such as facial expressions. While video recordings of sign language are commonly used for education and documentation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Janna Bruner , Amit Moryossef , Lior Wolf

Sign language understanding has made significant strides; however, there is still no viable solution for generating sign sequences directly from entire spoken content, e.g., text or speech. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian Ma , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang , Feng Zheng

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

We have come up with a research that hopes to provide a bridge between the users of American Sign Language and the users of spoken language and Indian Sign Language (ISL). The research enabled us to create a novel framework that we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Malay Kumar , S. Sarvajit Visagan , Tanish Sarang Mahajan , Anisha Natarajan

Scene text recognition (STR) has been an active research topic in computer vision for years. To tackle this challenging problem, numerous innovative methods have been successively proposed and incorporating linguistic knowledge into STR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Peng Wang , Cheng Da , Cong Yao

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to interpret sign video sequences into text-based natural language sentences. Sign videos consist of continuous sequences of sign gestures with no clear boundaries in between. Existing SLT models usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dongxu Li , Chenchen Xu , Xin Yu , Kaihao Zhang , Ben Swift , Hanna Suominen , Hongdong Li

Millions of individuals worldwide are affected by deafness and hearing impairment. Sign language serves as a sophisticated means of communication for the deaf and hard of hearing. However, in societies that prioritize spoken languages, sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Safaeid Hossain Arib , Rabeya Akter , Sejuti Rahman