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Research on continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) is essential to bridge the communication gap between deaf and hearing individuals. Numerous previous studies have trained their models using the connectionist temporal classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Brian Mak

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to convert sign language (SL) videos into spoken language text, thereby bridging the communication gap between the sign and the spoken community. While most existing works focus on translating a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sihan Tan , Taro Miyazaki , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the true sources of performance improvements often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Jian He Low , Sobhan Asasi , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation (SLT) is typically trained with text in a single spoken language, which limits scalability and cross-language generalization. Earlier approaches have replaced gloss supervision with text-based sentence embeddings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Shakib Yazdani , Cennet Oguz , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

Many continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) studies adopt transformer-based architectures for sequence modeling due to their powerful capacity for capturing global contexts. Nevertheless, vanilla self-attention, which serves as the…

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

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that requires bridging the modality gap between visual and linguistic information while capturing subtle variations in hand shapes and movements. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sobhan Asasi , Mohamed Ilyas Lakhal , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation (SLT), which generates text in a spoken language from visual content in a sign language, is important to assist the hard-of-hearing community for their communications. Inspired by neural machine translation (NMT),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jichao Kan , Kun Hu , Markus Hagenbuchner , Ah Chung Tsoi , Mohammed Bennamounm , Zhiyong Wang

Sign language translation (SLT) converts continuous sign videos into spoken-language text, yet it remains challenging due to the intrinsic modality mismatch between visual signs and written text, particularly in gloss-free settings. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Changhao Lai , Rui Zhao , Xuewen Zhong , Jinsong Su , Yidong Chen

The gap between speech and text modalities is a major challenge in speech-to-text translation (ST). Different methods have been proposed to reduce this gap, but most of them require architectural changes in ST training. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Phuong-Hang Le , Hongyu Gong , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Benjamin Lecouteux , Didier Schwab

Due to the modality discrepancy between textual and acoustic modeling, efficiently transferring linguistic knowledge from a pretrained language model (PLM) to acoustic encoding for automatic speech recognition (ASR) still remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai

Current continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) methods struggle with handling diverse samples. Although dynamic convolutions are ideal for this task, they mainly focus on spatial modeling and fail to capture the temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sheng Liu , Yiheng Yu , Yuan Feng , Min Xu , Zhelun Jin , Yining Jiang , Tiantian Yuan

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Chen , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Jinpeng Li , Donghao Zhou , Bian Wu , Chenyong Guan , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Many SLT systems quietly assume that brief chunks of signing map directly to spoken-language words. That assumption breaks down because signers often create meaning on the fly using context, space, and movement. We revisit SLT and argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yiyang Jiang , Li Zhang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Li Qing

Recently, end-to-end speech recognition with a hybrid model consisting of the connectionist temporal classification(CTC) and the attention encoder-decoder achieved state-of-the-art results. In this paper, we propose a novel CTC decoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Zhe Yuan , Zhuoran Lyu , Jiwei Li , Xi Zhou

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

Recently, there has been increasing progress in end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) architecture, which transcribes speech to text without any pre-trained alignments. One popular end-to-end approach is the hybrid Connectionist…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Haoran Miao , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

Sign Language (SL), as the mother tongue of the deaf community, is a special visual language that most hearing people cannot understand. In recent years, neural Sign Language Translation (SLT), as a possible way for bridging communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jiangbin Zheng , Siyuan Li , Cheng Tan , Chong Wu , Yidong Chen , Stan Z. Li

Sign Language Translation (SLT) systems support hearing-impaired people communication by finding equivalences between signed and spoken languages. This task is however challenging due to multiple sign variations, complexity in language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Christian Ruiz , Fabio Martinez

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

Sign language translation (SLT) systems, which are often decomposed into video-to-gloss (V2G) recognition and gloss-to-text (G2T) translation through the pivot gloss, heavily relies on the availability of large-scale parallel G2T pairs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ru Peng , Yawen Zeng , Junbo Zhao