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Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) has advanced rapidly, achieving strong performances without relying on gloss annotations. However, these gains have often come with increased model complexity and high computational demands,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

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

. Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a long challenging task in Computer Vision due to the difficulties in detecting the explicit boundaries between the words in a sign sentence. To deal with this challenge, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

The transformer is a fundamental building block in deep learning, and the attention mechanism is the transformer's core component. Self-supervised speech representation learning (SSRL) represents a popular use-case for the transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jianbo Ma , Siqi Pan , Deepak Chandran , Andrea Fanelli , Richard Cartwright

Current benchmarks for sign language recognition (SLR) focus mainly on isolated SLR, while there are limited datasets for continuous SLR (CSLR), which recognizes sequences of signs in a video. Additionally, existing CSLR datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Sarah Alyami , Hamzah Luqman , Sadam Al-Azani , Maad Alowaifeer , Yazeed Alharbi , Yaser Alonaizan

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

Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR) has emerged as a vital field for bridging the gap between deaf and hearing communities. However, the problem of sign-to-sign retrieval or detecting a specific sign within a sequence of continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Emmanuel Enejo Aaron , Assane Gueye

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

Sign language recognition (SLR) refers to interpreting sign language glosses from given videos automatically. This research area presents a complex challenge in computer vision because of the rapid and intricate movements inherent in sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Muxin Pu , Mei Kuan Lim , Chun Yong Chong

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

This work addresses the challenges associated with the use of glosses in both Sign Language Translation (SLT) and Sign Language Production (SLP). While glosses have long been used as a bridge between sign language and spoken language, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Huije Lee , Youngwoo Yoon , Jong C. Park

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

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

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

Despite the recent success of deep learning in continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), deep models typically focus on the most discriminative features, ignoring other potentially non-trivial and informative contents. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hao Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Yun Zhou , Houqiang Li

Aiming at the problem that the spatial-temporal hierarchical continuous sign language recognition model based on deep learning has a large amount of computation, which limits the real-time application of the model, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

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

Sign language is a beautiful visual language and is also the primary language used by speaking and hearing-impaired people. However, sign language has many complex expressions, which are difficult for the public to understand and master.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ronghui Li , Lu Meng

Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) is a challenging research task due to the lack of accurate annotation on the temporal sequence of sign language data. The recent popular usage is a hybrid model based on "CNN + RNN" for CSLR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Qidan Zhu , Jing Li , Fei Yuan , Quan Gan

Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) requires precise spatio-temporal modeling to accurately recognize sequences of gestures in videos. Existing frameworks often rely on CNN-based spatial backbones combined with temporal convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ahmed Abul Hasanaath , Hamzah Luqman