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Sign(ed) languages use gestures, such as hand or head movements, for communication. Sign language recognition is an assistive technology for individuals with hearing disability and its goal is to improve such individuals' life quality by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Mohammad Eslami , Mahdi Karami , Sedigheh Eslami , Solale Tabarestani , Farah Torkamani-Azar , Christoph Meinel

Hand gesture-based Sign Language Recognition (SLR) serves as a crucial communication bridge between deaf and non-deaf individuals. While Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are common, they are limited by their reliance on fixed skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Koki Hirooka , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Tatsuya Murakami , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Yong Seok Hwang , Jungpil Shin

This research combines MediaPipe and CNNs for the efficient and accurate interpretation of ASL dataset for the real-time detection of sign language. The system presented here captures and processes hands' gestures in real time. the intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Aditya Raj Verma , Gagandeep Singh , Karnim Meghwal , Banawath Ramji , Praveen Kumar Dadheech

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

Sign language segmentation is a crucial task in sign language processing systems. It enables downstream tasks such as sign recognition, transcription, and machine translation. In this work, we consider two kinds of segmentation:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Amit Moryossef , Zifan Jiang , Mathias Müller , Sarah Ebling , Yoav Goldberg

The primary concern of this research is to take American Sign Language (ASL) data through real time camera footage and be able to convert the data and information into text. Adding to that, we are also putting focus on creating a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hasnat Jamil Bhuiyan , Mubtasim Fuad Mozumder , Md. Rabiul Islam Khan , Md. Sabbir Ahmed , Nabuat Zaman Nahim

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) is an important topic within the areas of human-computer interaction and machine learning. On the one hand, it poses a complex challenge that requires the intervention of various knowledge areas,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , César Estrebou , Laura Lanzarini , Alejandro Rosete

The need of sign language is increasing radically especially to hearing impaired community. Only few research groups try to automatically recognize sign language from video, colored gloves and etc. Their approach requires a valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-13 M. Krishnaveni , Dr. V. Radha

In modern society, people should not be identified based on their disability, rather, it is environments that can disable people with impairments. Improvements to automatic Sign Language Recognition (SLR) will lead to more enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jordan J. Bird

Most natural language processing systems based on machine learning are not robust to domain shift. For example, a state-of-the-art syntactic dependency parser trained on Wall Street Journal sentences has an absolute drop in performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Edouard Grave , Guillaume Obozinski , Francis Bach

Hand gesture recognition is an important aspect of human-computer interaction. It forms the basis of sign language for the visually impaired people. This work proposes a novel hand gesture recognizing system for the differently-abled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Subham Sharma , Sharmila Subudhi

There have been recent advances in computer-based recognition of isolated, citation-form signs from video. There are many challenges for such a task, not least the naturally occurring inter- and intra- signer synchronic variation in sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Carol Neidle

Sign Language Production (SLP) is a challenging task, given the limited resources available and the inherent diversity within sign data. As a result, previous works have suffered from the problem of regression to the mean, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Harry Walsh , Ben Saunders , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation is one of the important issues in communication between deaf and hearing people, as it expresses words through hand, body, and mouth movements. American Sign Language is one of the sign languages used, one of which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Gregorius Guntur Sunardi Putra , Adifa Widyadhani Chanda D'Layla , Dimas Wahono , Riyanarto Sarno , Agus Tri Haryono

In the modern context, hand gesture recognition has emerged as a focal point. This is due to its wide range of applications, which include comprehending sign language, factories, hands-free devices, and guiding robots. Many researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Md Abdur Rahim , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Hemel Sharker Akash , Jungpil Shin , Md. Imran Hossain , Md. Najmul Hossain

Hand gesture serves as a crucial role during the expression of sign language. Current deep learning based methods for sign language understanding (SLU) are prone to over-fitting due to insufficient sign data resource and suffer limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Fingerspelling, in which words are signed letter by letter, is an important component of American Sign Language. Most previous work on automatic fingerspelling recognition has assumed that the boundaries of fingerspelling regions in signing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

The lack of automatic evaluation metrics tailored for SignWriting presents a significant obstacle in developing effective transcription and translation models for signed languages. This paper introduces a comprehensive suite of evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Amit Moryossef , Rotem Zilberman , Ohad Langer

New and more natural human-robot interfaces are of crucial interest to the evolution of robotics. This paper addresses continuous and real-time hand gesture spotting, i.e., gesture segmentation plus gesture recognition. Gesture patterns are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pedro Neto , Dário Pereira , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

Despite progress in gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT), traditional single modality end-to-end approaches consistently fail on two critical components of natural signing: the precise recognition of high-speed fingerspelling and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Marshall Thomas , Edward Fish , Richard Bowden