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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 deaf and hard of hearing community relies on American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary mode of communication, but communication with others who do not know ASL can be difficult, especially during emergencies where no interpreter is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Janice Nguyen , Y. Curtis Wang

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

As part of the development of an educational tool that can help students achieve fluency in American Sign Language (ASL) through independent and interactive practice with immediate feedback, this paper introduces a near real-time system to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Elahe Vahdani , Longlong Jing , Yingli Tian , Matt Huenerfauth

It has always been a rather tough task to communicate with someone possessing a hearing impairment. One of the most tested ways to establish such a communication is through the use of sign based languages. However, not many people are aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sharanya Mukherjee , Md Hishaam Akhtar , Kannadasan R

Sign language to text is a crucial technology that can break down communication barriers for individuals with hearing difficulties. We replicate and try to improve on a recently published study. We evaluate models using BLEU and rBLEU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Parsheeta Roy , Ji-Eun Han , Srishti Chouhan , Bhaavanaa Thumu

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

Sign languages are multi-channel languages that communicate information through not just the hands (manual signals) but also facial expressions and upper body movements (non-manual signals). However, since automatic sign language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jung-Ho Kim , Mathew Huerta-Enochian , Changyong Ko , Du Hui Lee

The people in the world who are hearing impaired face many obstacles in communication and require an interpreter to comprehend what a person is saying. There has been constant scientific research and the existing models lack the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Shubham Thakar , Samveg Shah , Bhavya Shah , Anant V. Nimkar

Sign language translation (SLT) is often decomposed into video-to-gloss recognition and gloss-to-text translation, where a gloss is a sequence of transcribed spoken-language words in the order in which they are signed. We focus here on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Amit Moryossef , Kayo Yin , Graham Neubig , Yoav Goldberg

The target of this research is to experiment, iterate and recommend a system that is successful in recognition of American Sign Language (ASL). It is a challenging as well as an interesting problem that if solved will bring a leap in social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Dhruv Rathi

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

Sign language serves as a non-vocal means of communication, transmitting information and significance through gestures, facial expressions, and bodily movements. The majority of current approaches for sign language recognition (SLR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mo Guan , Yan Wang , Guangkun Ma , Jiarui Liu , Mingzu Sun

Emotional voice communication plays a crucial role in effective daily interactions. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals often rely on facial expressions to supplement sign language to convey emotions, as the use of voice is limited.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hyunchul Lim , Minghan Gao , Franklin Mingzhe Li , Nam Anh Dang , Ianip Sit , Michelle M Olson , Cheng Zhang

Sign languages are used as a primary language by approximately 70 million D/deaf people world-wide. However, most communication technologies operate in spoken and written languages, creating inequities in access. To help tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aashaka Desai , Lauren Berger , Fyodor O. Minakov , Vanessa Milan , Chinmay Singh , Kriston Pumphrey , Richard E. Ladner , Hal Daumé , Alex X. Lu , Naomi Caselli , Danielle Bragg

Indian Sign Language has limited resources for developing machine learning and data-driven approaches for automated language processing. Though text/audio-based language processing techniques have shown colossal research interest and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Abhinav Joshi , Romit Mohanty , Mounika Kanakanti , Andesha Mangla , Sudeep Choudhary , Monali Barbate , Ashutosh Modi

Sign language recognition is a challenging gesture sequence recognition problem, characterized by quick and highly coarticulated motion. In this paper we focus on recognition of fingerspelling sequences in American Sign Language (ASL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Bowen Shi , Aurora Martinez Del Rio , Jonathan Keane , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Sign language translation from video to spoken text presents unique challenges owing to the distinct grammar, expression nuances, and high variation of visual appearance across different speakers and contexts. The intermediate gloss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Pooya Fayyazsanavi , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Jana Košecká

One of the biggest challenges hindering progress in low-resource and multilingual machine translation is the lack of good evaluation benchmarks. Current evaluation benchmarks either lack good coverage of low-resource languages, consider…

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