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We address human action recognition from multi-modal video data involving articulated pose and RGB frames and propose a two-stream approach. The pose stream is processed with a convolutional model taking as input a 3D tensor holding data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Fabien Baradel , Christian Wolf , Julien Mille

Static gesture recognition is an effective non-verbal communication channel between a user and their devices; however many modern methods are sensitive to the relative pose of the user's hands with respect to the capture device, as parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Ilya Chugunov , Avideh Zakhor

Hand gesture serves as a critical role in sign language. Current deep-learning-based sign language recognition (SLR) methods may suffer insufficient interpretability and overfitting due to limited sign data sources. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Yuechen Wang , Houqiang Li

For a long time, detecting hand gestures and recognizing them as letters or numbers has been a challenging task. This creates communication barriers for individuals with disabilities. This paper introduces a new dataset, the Annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Sanyam Jain

Sign language is the fundamental communication method among people who suffer from speech and hearing defects. The rest of the world doesn't have a clear idea of sign language. "Sign Language Communicator" (SLC) is designed to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Matheesha Fernando , Janaka Wijayanayake

Most existing sign language translation (SLT) datasets are limited in scale, lack multilingual coverage, and are costly to curate due to their reliance on expert annotation and controlled recording setup. Recently, Vision Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shakib Yazdani , Yasser Hamidullah , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith

Our aim is to develop a unified model for sign language understanding, that performs sign language translation (SLT) and sign-subtitle alignment (SSA). Together, these two tasks enable the conversion of continuous signing videos into spoken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Youngjoon Jang , Liliane Momeni , Zifan Jiang , Joon Son Chung , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

Computers still have a long way to go before they can interact with users in a truly natural fashion. From a users perspective, the most natural way to interact with a computer would be through a speech and gesture interface. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Maher Jebali , Patrice Dalle , Mohamed Jemni

Sign language translation as a kind of technology with profound social significance has attracted growing researchers' interest in recent years. However, the existing sign language translation methods need to read all the videos before…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Aoxiong Yin , Zhou Zhao , Jinglin Liu , Weike Jin , Meng Zhang , Xingshan Zeng , Xiaofei He

The complexity of Sign Language (SL) data processing brings many challenges. The current approach to recognition of SL signs aims to translate RGB sign language videos through pose information into Word-based ID Glosses, which serve to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Chunyu Sui , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Hongwei Yi , Hezhen Hu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Sign language recognition involves modeling complex multichannel information, such as hand shapes and movements while relying on sufficient sign language-specific data. However, sign languages are often under-resourced, posing a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hossein Ranjbar , Alireza Taheri

In this paper, we present an efficient method to incrementally learn to classify static hand gestures. This method allows users to teach a robot to recognize new symbols in an incremental manner. Contrary to other works which use special…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Xavier Cucurull , Anaís Garrell

Sign language recognition (SLR) facilitates communication between deaf and hearing individuals. Deep learning is widely used to develop SLR-based systems; however, it is computationally intensive and requires substantial computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Nitin Kumar Singh , Arie Rachmad Syulistyo , Yuichiro Tanaka , Hakaru Tamukoh

We propose a sign language translation system based on human keypoint estimation. It is well-known that many problems in the field of computer vision require a massive amount of dataset to train deep neural network models. The situation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Sang-Ki Ko , Chang Jo Kim , Hyedong Jung , Choongsang Cho

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

This work presents an approach for recognizing isolated sign language gestures using skeleton-based pose data extracted from video sequences. A Graph-GRU temporal network is proposed to model both spatial and temporal dependencies between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 B. Mederos , J. Mejía , A. Medina-Reyes , Y. Espinosa-Almeyda , J. D. Díaz-Roman , I. Rodríguez-Mederos , M. Mejía-Carreon , F. Gonzalez-Lopez

Text-speech joint spoken language modeling (SLM) aims at natural and intelligent speech-based interactions, but developing such a system may suffer from modality mismatch: speech unit sequences are much longer than text tokens. Prior work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Liang-Hsuan Tseng , Hung-yi Lee

Artificial agents, particularly humanoid robots, interact with their environment, objects, and people using cameras, actuators, and physical presence. Their communication methods are often pre-programmed, limiting their actions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Sign language is the primary language for people with a hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) is the automatic recognition of sign language, which represents a challenging problem for computers, though some progress has been made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Roman Töngi

Automatic sign language recognition is a research area that encompasses human-computer interaction, computer vision and machine learning. Robust automatic recognition of sign language could assist in the translation process and the…

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