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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

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) approaches primarily rely on RGB data or signer pose information. However, combining these modalities often results in the loss of crucial details, such as hand shape and orientation, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sven Schreiber , Noha Sarhan , Simone Frintrop , Christian Wilms

Sign languages are visual languages which convey information by signers' handshape, facial expression, body movement, and so forth. Due to the inherent restriction of combinations of these visual ingredients, there exist a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

Large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in aligning visual inputs with text. However, their ability to deeply understand the unique physical properties of non-RGB vision sensor images remains limited. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sangyun Chung , Youngjoon Yu , Se Yeon Kim , Youngchae Chee , Yong Man Ro

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of various self-supervision methods for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR). We consider four recently introduced transformer-based approaches to self-supervised learning from videos, and four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Marcelo Sandoval-Castaneda , Yanhong Li , Diane Brentari , Karen Livescu , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the task of generating sign language video from spoken language inputs. The field has seen a range of innovations over the last few years, with the introduction of deep learning-based approaches providing…

Sign language is the primary communication language for people with disabling hearing loss. Sign language recognition (SLR) systems aim to recognize sign gestures and translate them into spoken language. One of the main challenges in SLR is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hasan Algafri , Hamzah Luqman , Sarah Alyami , Issam Laradji

Millions of hearing impaired people around the world routinely use some variants of sign languages to communicate, thus the automatic translation of a sign language is meaningful and important. Currently, there are two sub-problems in Sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jie Huang , Wengang Zhou , Qilin Zhang , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

Sign Language Processing (SLP) is an interdisciplinary field comprised of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision. It is focused on the computational understanding, translation, and production of signed languages. Traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Amit Moryossef

A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 M. Madhiarasan , Partha Pratim Roy

Multimodal latent-space reasoning aims to replace explicit thinking with images by performing visual reasoning directly in a compact latent space. However, existing approaches largely rely on visual supervision and produce latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianrun Xu , Yue Sun , Qixun Wang , Jingyi Lu , Yuan Wang , Tianren Zhang , Longteng Guo , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Feng Chen , Jing Liu

Sign languages are the language of hearing-impaired people who use visuals like the hand, facial, and body movements for communication. There are different signs and gestures representing alphabets, words, and phrases. Nowadays…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sharvani Srivastava , Sudhakar Singh , Pooja , Shiv Prakash

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 using computational models is a challenging problem that requires simultaneous spatio-temporal modeling of the multiple sources, i.e. faces, hands, body, etc. In this paper, we propose an isolated sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Hacer Yalim Keles

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging problem, involving complex manual features, i.e., hand gestures, and fine-grained non-manual features (NMFs), i.e., facial expression, mouth shapes, etc. Although manual features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Junfu Pu , Houqiang Li

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

Most of the vision-based sign language research to date has focused on Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR), where the objective is to predict a single sign class given a short video clip. Although there has been significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ryan Wong , Necati Cihan Camgöz , Richard Bowden

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has mostly been applied on datasets containing signs executed slowly and clearly by a limited group of signers. In real-world scenarios, however, we are met with challenging visual conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Mathieu De Coster , Ellen Rushe , Ruth Holmes , Anthony Ventresque , Joni Dambre

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a weakly supervised task that annotates sign videos as textual glosses. Recent studies show that insufficient training caused by the lack of large-scale available sign datasets becomes the main bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiangbin Zheng , Yile Wang , Cheng Tan , Siyuan Li , Ge Wang , Jun Xia , Yidong Chen , Stan Z. Li

Visual Geo-localization (VG) is a critical research area for identifying geo-locations from visual inputs, particularly in autonomous navigation for robotics and vehicles. Current VG methods often learn feature extractors from geo-labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jiuhong Xiao , Gao Zhu , Giuseppe Loianno