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Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communication barriers in critical settings. Sign languages present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Phoebe Chua , Cathy Mengying Fang , Takehiko Ohkawa , Raja Kushalnagar , Suranga Nanayakkara , Pattie Maes

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

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

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,…

This paper presents a study on natural language to sign language translation with human-robot interaction application purposes. By means of the presented methodology, the humanoid robot TEO is expected to represent Spanish sign language…

Gesturing is one of the natural modes of human communication. Signs produced by gestures can have a basic meaning coupled with additional information that is layered over the basic meaning of the sign. Sign language is an important example…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Subhadip Basu , S. Dey , K. Mukherjee , T. S. Jana

Sign languages are visual languages, with vocabularies as rich as their spoken language counterparts. However, current deep-learning based Sign Language Production (SLP) models produce under-articulated skeleton pose sequences from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

This study presents TSLFormer, a light and robust word-level Turkish Sign Language (TSL) recognition model that treats sign gestures as ordered, string-like language. Instead of using raw RGB or depth videos, our method only works with 3D…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kutay Ertürk , Furkan Altınışık , İrem Sarıaltın , Ömer Nezih Gerek

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

We are releasing a dataset containing videos of both fluent and non-fluent signers using American Sign Language (ASL), which were collected using a Kinect v2 sensor. This dataset was collected as a part of a project to develop and evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Saad Hassan , Matthew Seita , Larwan Berke , Yingli Tian , Elaine Gale , Sooyeon Lee , Matt Huenerfauth

The hand gestures are one of the typical methods used in sign language. It is very difficult for the hearing-impaired people to communicate with the world. This project presents a solution that will not only automatically recognize the hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 K. Manikandan , Ayush Patidar , Pallav Walia , Aneek Barman Roy

Different from traditional video retrieval, sign language retrieval is more biased towards understanding the semantic information of human actions contained in video clips. Previous works typically only encode RGB videos to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Longtao Jiang , Min Wang , Zecheng Li , Yao Fang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Despite tremendous progress in natural language processing using deep learning techniques in recent years, sign language production and comprehension has advanced very little. One critical barrier is the lack of largescale datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yehong Jiang

This paper addresses the problem of diversity-aware sign language production, where we want to give an image (or sequence) of a signer and produce another image with the same pose but different attributes (\textit{e.g.} gender, skin color).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) has become a key enabler of inclusive human-computer interaction, fostering seamless communication between deaf individuals and hearing communities. Despite significant advances in multimodal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiaofang Xiao , Guangchao Li , Guangrong Zhao , Qi Lin , Wen Ma , Hongkai Wen , Yanxiang Wang , Yiran Shen

Sign Language Translation (SLT) has evolved significantly, moving from isolated recognition approaches to complex, continuous gloss-free translation systems. This paper explores the impact of pose-based data preprocessing techniques -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tomas Zelezny , Jakub Straka , Vaclav Javorek , Ondrej Valach , Marek Hruz , Ivan Gruber

Hearing-impaired is the disability of partial or total hearing loss that causes a significant problem for communication with other people in society. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the sign languages that most commonly used language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Anthony S. Maida

We introduce the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign class examples to recognize the instances of unseen signs. To this end, we propose to utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yunus Can Bilge , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

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

Sign language serves as the primary meaning of communication for the deaf-mute community. Different from spoken language, it commonly conveys information by the collaboration of manual features, i.e., hand gestures and body movements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Wengang Zhou , Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Zecheng Li , Houqiang Li