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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

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) aims to translate a signing sequence into a sentence. It is very challenging as sign language is rich in vocabulary, while many among them contain similar gestures and motions. Moreover, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Zhaoyang Yang , Zhenmei Shi , Xiaoyong Shen , Yu-Wing Tai

Sign language is a visual language that enhances communication between people and is frequently used as the primary form of communication by people with hearing loss. Even so, not many people with hearing loss use sign language, and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ayush Sinha , Ashutosh Bajpai , S. K Singh

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

Like spoken languages, a single sign language expression could correspond to multiple valid textual interpretations. Hence, learning a rigid one-to-one mapping for sign language translation (SLT) models might be inadequate, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xin Shen , Lei Shen , Shaozu Yuan , Heming Du , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yu

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging task that requires learning on both spatial and temporal dimensions of signing frame sequences. Most recent work accomplishes this by using CNN and RNN hybrid networks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ka Leong Cheng , Zhaoyang Yang , Qifeng Chen , Yu-Wing Tai

Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a crucial task for understanding the languages of deaf communities. Contemporary keypoint-based approaches typically rely on spatio-temporal encoding, where spatial interactions among keypoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Suvajit Patra , Soumitra Samanta

Current continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) methods struggle with handling diverse samples. Although dynamic convolutions are ideal for this task, they mainly focus on spatial modeling and fail to capture the temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sheng Liu , Yiheng Yu , Yuan Feng , Min Xu , Zhelun Jin , Yining Jiang , Tiantian Yuan

Sign languages are visual languages which convey information by signers' handshape, facial expression, body movement, and so forth. Due to the inherent restriction of combinations of these visual ingredients, there exist a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

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

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Chen , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Jinpeng Li , Donghao Zhou , Bian Wu , Chenyong Guan , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Continuously recognizing sign gestures and converting them to glosses plays a key role in bridging the gap between the hearing and hearing-impaired communities. This involves recognizing and interpreting the hands, face, and body gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Andrew Blayama Stephen , Assane Gueye

Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) faces multiple challenges, including significant inter-signer variability and poor generalization to novel sentence structures. Traditional solutions frequently fail to handle these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Md Rezwanul Haque , Md. Milon Islam , S M Taslim Uddin Raju , Fakhri Karray

Existing Sign Language Learning applications focus on the demonstration of the sign in the hope that the student will copy a sign correctly. In these cases, only a teacher can confirm that the sign was completed correctly, by reviewing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Nikita Louison , Wayne Goodridge , Koffka Khan

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Ariel Basso Madjoukeng , Jérôme Fink , Pierre Poitier , Edith Belise Kenmogne , Benoit Frenay

Human body trajectories are a salient cue to identify actions in the video. Such body trajectories are mainly conveyed by hands and face across consecutive frames in sign language. However, current methods in continuous sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Wei Feng

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is an important step in facilitating the communication among deaf people and the rest of society. Existing Persian sign language recognition systems are mainly restricted to static signs which are not very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Saeideh Ghanbari Azar , Hadi Seyedarabi

Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) has achieved remarkable progress in recent years; however, most existing methods are developed under single-view settings and thus remain insufficiently robust to viewpoint variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Wan Jiang , Yaxiong Wang , Lechao Cheng , Richang Hong

The objective of this work is the effective extraction of spatial and dynamic features for Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR). To accomplish this, we utilise a two-pathway SlowFast network, where each pathway operates at distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junseok Ahn , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Pre-training has been proven to be effective in boosting the performance of Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR). Existing pre-training methods solely focus on the compact pose data, which eliminates background perturbation but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kepeng Wu , Zecheng Li , Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li