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Due to the enormous technical challenges and wide range of applications, scene text recognition (STR) has been an active research topic in computer vision for years. To tackle this tough problem, numerous innovative methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Cheng Da , Peng Wang , Cong Yao

Gloss-free sign language translation (SLT) aims to develop well-performing SLT systems with no requirement for the costly gloss annotations, but currently still lags behind gloss-based approaches significantly. In this paper, we identify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jinhui Ye , Xing Wang , Wenxiang Jiao , Junwei Liang , Hui Xiong

Sign language recognition (SLR) technology has enormous promise to improve communication and accessibility for the difficulty of hearing. This paper presents a novel approach for identifying gestures in TSL using the YOLOv5 object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Vipul Reddy. P , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. B , Sukriti

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in perceiving and reasoning over multimodal inquiries, ushering in a new research era for foundation models. However, vision-language misalignment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wei-Yao Wang , Zhao Wang , Helen Suzuki , Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

The growing need for instant spoken language transcription and translation is driven by increased global communication and cross-lingual interactions. This has made offering translations in multiple languages essential for user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sara Papi , Peidong Wang , Junkun Chen , Jian Xue , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Yashesh Gaur

Sign language recognition (SLR) facilitates communication between deaf and hearing individuals. Deep learning is widely used to develop SLR-based systems; however, it is computationally intensive and requires substantial computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Nitin Kumar Singh , Arie Rachmad Syulistyo , Yuichiro Tanaka , Hakaru Tamukoh

Few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted considerable attention recently. Among existing approaches, the metric-based method aims to train an embedding network that can make similar samples close while dissimilar samples as far as possible and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Bin Xiao , Chien-Liang Liu , Wen-Hoar Hsaio

Sign language translation from video to spoken text presents unique challenges owing to the distinct grammar, expression nuances, and high variation of visual appearance across different speakers and contexts. The intermediate gloss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Pooya Fayyazsanavi , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Jana Košecká

Multi-Intent Spoken Language Understanding (SLU), a novel and more complex scenario of SLU, is attracting increasing attention. Unlike traditional SLU, each intent in this scenario has its specific scope. Semantic information outside the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Lizhi Cheng , Wenmian Yang , Weijia Jia

Sign language recognition (SLR) has long been plagued by insufficient model representation capabilities. Although current pre-training approaches have alleviated this dilemma to some extent and yielded promising performance by employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Yunyao Mao , Min Wang , Houqiang Li

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

Sign languages are multi-channel visual languages, where signers use a continuous 3D space to communicate.Sign Language Production (SLP), the automatic translation from spoken to sign languages, must embody both the continuous articulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

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

Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) aims to transcribe untrimmed videos into glosses, which are typically textual words. Recent studies indicate that the lack of large datasets and precise annotations has become a bottleneck for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Dejie Yang , Zhu Xu , Xinjie Gao , Yang Liu

Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in streaming applications such as multi-round dialogue, where long interactions are expected, is urgently needed but poses two major challenges. Firstly, during the decoding stage, caching previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Guangxuan Xiao , Yuandong Tian , Beidi Chen , Song Han , Mike Lewis

Sign language recognition (SLR) faces fundamental challenges in creating accurate annotations due to the inherent complexity of simultaneous manual and non-manual signals. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to integrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Siyu Liang , Yunan Li , Wentian Xin , Huizhou Chen , Xujie Liu , Kang Liu , Qiguang Miao

In this work, our goals are two fold: large-vocabulary continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), and sign language retrieval. To this end, we introduce a multi-task Transformer model, CSLR2, that is able to ingest a signing sequence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Charles Raude , K R Prajwal , Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman , Gül Varol

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

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have greatly improved their abilities in image understanding. However, these models often struggle with grasping pixel-level semantic details, e.g., the keypoints of an object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jie Yang , Wang Zeng , Sheng Jin , Lumin Xu , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Ruimao Zhang

Language models for American Sign Language (ASL) could make language technologies substantially more accessible to those who sign. To train models on tasks such as isolated sign recognition (ISR) and ASL-to-English translation, datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lee Kezar , Nidhi Munikote , Zian Zeng , Zed Sehyr , Naomi Caselli , Jesse Thomason