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Sign language recognition has attracted the interest of researchers in recent years. While numerous approaches have been proposed for European and Asian sign languages recognition, very limited attempts have been made to develop similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hamzah Luqman

The recent surge in large language models has automated translations of spoken and written languages. However, these advances remain largely inaccessible to American Sign Language (ASL) users, whose language relies on complex visual cues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Perkins , Davis Hunter , Dhrumil Patel , Galen Flanagan

Vision-based sign language recognition aims at helping deaf people to communicate with others. However, most existing sign language datasets are limited to a small number of words. Due to the limited vocabulary size, models learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dongxu Li , Cristian Rodriguez Opazo , Xin Yu , Hongdong 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

Sign spotting, the task of identifying and localizing individual signs within continuous sign language video, plays a pivotal role in scaling dataset annotations and addressing the severe data scarcity issue in sign language translation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign language recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Ozgur Kara , Ogulcan Ozdemir , Lale Akarun

The objective of this work is to find temporal boundaries between signs in continuous sign language. Motivated by the paucity of annotation available for this task, we propose a simple yet effective algorithm to improve segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Katrin Renz , Nicolaj C. Stache , Neil Fox , Gül Varol , Samuel Albanie

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging problem, involving complex manual features, i.e., hand gestures, and fine-grained non-manual features (NMFs), i.e., facial expression, mouth shapes, etc. Although manual features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Junfu Pu , Houqiang Li

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) deals with unaligned video-text pair and uses the word error rate (WER), i.e., edit distance, as the main evaluation metric. Since it is not differentiable, we usually instead optimize the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Junfu Pu , Wengang Zhou , Hezhen Hu , Houqiang Li

Continuous sign language recognition (cSLR) is a public significant task that transcribes a sign language video into an ordered gloss sequence. It is important to capture the fine-grained gloss-level details, since there is no explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Pan Xie , Zhi Cui , Yao Du , Mengyi Zhao , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang , Xiaohui Hu

With the growing Deaf and Hard of Hearing population worldwide and the persistent shortage of certified sign language interpreters, there is a pressing need for an efficient, signs-driven, integrated end-to-end translation system, from sign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

This study introduces an integrated approach to recognizing Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) using state-of-the-art deep learning models such as MobileNetV3, ResNet50, and EfficientNet-B2. These models are further enhanced by explainable AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Mazen Balat , Rewaa Awaad , Ahmed B. Zaky , Salah A. Aly

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

We use insights from research on American Sign Language (ASL) phonology to train models for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR), a step towards automatic sign language understanding. Our key insight is to explicitly recognize the role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lee Kezar , Jesse Thomason , Zed Sevcikova Sehyr

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

Sign language serves as a non-vocal means of communication, transmitting information and significance through gestures, facial expressions, and bodily movements. The majority of current approaches for sign language recognition (SLR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mo Guan , Yan Wang , Guangkun Ma , Jiarui Liu , Mingzu Sun

This paper presents an Arabic Alphabet Sign Language recognition approach, using deep learning methods in conjunction with transfer learning and transformer-based models. We study the performance of the different variants on two publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mazen Balat , Rewaa Awaad , Hend Adel , Ahmed B. Zaky , Salah A. Aly

Sign language recognition is important for natural and convenient communication between deaf community and hearing majority. We take the highly efficient initial step of automatic fingerspelling recognition system using convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Byeongkeun Kang , Subarna Tripathi , Truong Q. Nguyen

This paper proposes an attentional network for the task of Continuous Sign Language Recognition. The proposed approach exploits co-independent streams of data to model the sign language modalities. These different channels of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Fares Ben Slimane , Mohamed Bouguessa

This study investigates the performance of 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for real-time American Sign Language (ASL) recognition. Though 3D CNNs are good at spatiotemporal feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Madhumati Pol , Anvay Anturkar , Anushka Khot , Ayush Andure , Aniruddha Ghosh , Anvit Magadum , Anvay Bahadur