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Sign language visual recognition from continuous multi-modal streams is still one of the most challenging fields. Recent advances in human actions recognition are exploiting the ascension of GPU-based learning from massive data, and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Bassem Seddik , Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara

Deep learning expresses a category of machine learning algorithms that have the capability to combine raw inputs into intermediate features layers. These deep learning algorithms have demonstrated great results in different fields. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sukhdeep Singh , Sudhir Rohilla , Anuj Sharma

Sign languages play a crucial role in the communication of deaf communities, but they are often marginalized, limiting access to essential services such as healthcare and education. This study proposes an automatic sign language recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fraisse Sacré Takouchouang , Ho Tuong Vinh

Hand gesture is one of the most important means of touchless communication between human and machines. There is a great interest for commanding electronic equipment in surgery rooms by hand gesture for reducing the time of surgery and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , M. Hossein Jafari , M. Amin Khorsandi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

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 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

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

Sign language is an essential resource enabling access to communication and proper socioemotional development for individuals suffering from disabling hearing loss. As this population is expected to reach 700 million by 2050, the importance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Cleison Correia de Amorim , Cleber Zanchettin

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

We present Large Sign Language Models (LSLM), a novel framework for translating 3D American Sign Language (ASL) by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as the backbone, which can benefit hearing-impaired individuals' virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sen Zhang , Xiaoxiao He , Di Liu , Zhaoyang Xia , Mingyu Zhao , Chaowei Tan , Vivian Li , Bo Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Mubbasir Kapadia

Prior work on Sign Language Translation has shown that having a mid-level sign gloss representation (effectively recognizing the individual signs) improves the translation performance drastically. In fact, the current state-of-the-art in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Necati Cihan Camgoz , Oscar Koller , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

Sign language is an essential means of communication for millions of people around the world and serves as their primary language. However, most communication tools are developed for spoken and written languages which can cause problems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ali Ghadami , Alireza Taheri , Ali Meghdari

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

Developing successful sign language recognition, generation, and translation systems requires expertise in a wide range of fields, including computer vision, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction,…

In this project, we have developed a sign language tutor that lets users learn isolated signs by watching recorded videos and by trying the same signs. The system records the user's video and analyses it. If the sign is recognized, both…

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

Subtle hand differences make sign language recognition challenging, yet many existing methods rely on encoders pretrained on generic action datasets that poorly capture such fine-grained cues. We propose a self-supervised pretraining method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kunyuan Xie , Zhixi Cai , Kalin Stefanov

Word-level sign language recognition (WSLR) has attracted attention because it is expected to overcome the communication barrier between people with speech impairment and those who can hear. In the WSLR problem, a method designed for action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Mizuki Maruyama , Shrey Singh , Katsufumi Inoue , Partha Pratim Roy , Masakazu Iwamura , Michifumi Yoshioka

People with speech and hearing impairments often rely on sign language to communicate with others but most of the general population cannot understand sign language and sign language itself is a difficult language to learn, so there is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Sai Charan Bodda , Palki Gupta , Gaurav Joshi , Ayush Chaturvedi