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Sign Language Processing (SLP) is an interdisciplinary field comprised of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision. It is focused on the computational understanding, translation, and production of signed languages. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Amit Moryossef

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

In this paper, we propose a new hand gesture recognition method based on skeletal data by learning SPD matrices with neural networks. We model the hand skeleton as a graph and introduce a neural network for SPD matrix learning, taking as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Xuan Nguyen , Luc Brun , Olivier Lezoray , Sébastien Bougleux

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

The ageing population trend is correlated with an increased prevalence of acquired cognitive impairments such as dementia. Although there is no cure for dementia, a timely diagnosis helps in obtaining necessary support and appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Xing Liang , Anastassia Angelopoulou , Epaminondas Kapetanios , Bencie Woll , Reda Al-batat , Tyron Woolfe

We present a comprehensive study on meaningfully evaluating sign language utterances in the form of human skeletal poses. The study covers keypoint distance-based, embedding-based, and back-translation-based metrics. We show tradeoffs…

Sign language is the only medium of communication for the hearing impaired and the deaf and dumb community. Communication with the general mass is thus always a challenge for this minority group. Especially in Bangla sign language (BdSL),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Thasin Abedin , Khondokar S. S. Prottoy , Ayana Moshruba , Safayat Bin Hakim

Sign language recognition could significantly improve the user experience for d/Deaf people with the general consumer technology, such as IoT devices or videoconferencing. However, current sign language recognition architectures are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Matyáš Boháček , Zhuo Cao , Marek Hrúz

This research paper describes a realtime system for identifying American Sign Language (ASL) movements that employs modern computer vision and machine learning approaches. The suggested method makes use of the Mediapipe library for feature…

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

Due to the growth of the population with hearing problems, devices have been developed that facilitate the inclusion of deaf people in society, using technology as a communication tool, such as vision systems. Then, a solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rivas P. Pedro E. , Velarde-Anaya Omar , Gonzalez-Lopez Samuel , Rivas P. Pablo , Alvarez-Torres Norma Angelica

Sign Languages (SL) serve as the primary mode of communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities. Deep learning methods for SL recognition and translation have achieved promising results. However, Sign Language Production (SLP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Vasileios Baltatzis , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Evangelos Ververas , Guanxiong Sun , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Sign language recognition from sequences of monocular images or 2D poses is a challenging field, not only due to the difficulty to infer 3D information from 2D data, but also due to the temporal relationship between the sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Silvan Ferreira , Esdras Costa , Márcio Dahia , Jampierre Rocha

This paper presents a real-time American Sign Language (ASL) recognition system utilizing a hybrid deep learning architecture combining 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. The system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Dawnena Key

Over 5% of the world's population (466 million people) has disabling hearing loss. 4 million are children. They can be hard of hearing or deaf. Deaf people mostly have profound hearing loss. Which implies very little or no hearing. Over the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Salma El Anigri , Mohammed Majid Himmi , Abdelhak Mahmoudi

Sign Languages are rich multi-channel languages, requiring articulation of both manual (hands) and non-manual (face and body) features in a precise, intricate manner. Sign Language Production (SLP), the automatic translation from spoken to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Since American Sign Language (ASL) has no standard written form, Deaf signers frequently share videos in order to communicate in their native language. However, since both hands and face convey critical linguistic information in signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhaoyang Xia , Carol Neidle , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Sign language is the primary language for many Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) signers, yet most conversational AI systems still mediate interaction through spoken or written language. This spoken-language-centered interface can limit access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Youngmin Kim , Kyobin Choo , Jiwoo Park , Minseo Kim , Chanyoung Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Seong Jae Hwang

Research on continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) is essential to bridge the communication gap between deaf and hearing individuals. Numerous previous studies have trained their models using the connectionist temporal classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

In recent years, sign language processing (SLP) has gained importance in the general field of Natural Language Processing. However, compared to research on spoken languages, SLP research is hindered by complex ad-hoc code, inadvertently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Gerard Sant , Zifan Jiang , Carlos Escolano , Amit Moryossef , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich , Sarah Ebling