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Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight, modular SLT framework, Spotter+GPT, that leverages the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Machine Translation (SLMT) aims to bridge communication between Deaf and hearing individuals. However, its progress is constrained by scarce datasets, limited signer diversity, and large domain gaps between sign motion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Sign Language Translation (SLT) attempts to convert sign language videos into spoken sentences. However, many existing methods struggle with the disparity between visual and textual representations during end-to-end learning. Gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sobhan Asasi , Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

Sign language recognition and translation first uses a recognition module to generate glosses from sign language videos and then employs a translation module to translate glosses into spoken sentences. Most existing works focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yong Cao , Wei Li , Xianzhi Li , Min Chen , Guangyong Chen , Long Hu , Zhengdao Li , Hwang Kai

The human body communicates through various meaningful gestures, with sign language using hands being a prominent example. Bangla Sign Language Translation (BSLT) aims to bridge communication gaps for the deaf and mute community. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Rotan Hawlader Pranto , Shahnewaz Siddique

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

The paper presents an overview of the Spoken Language Translator (SLT) system's hybrid language-processing architecture, focussing on the way in which rule-based and statistical methods are combined to achieve robust and efficient…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Manny Rayner , David Carter

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

Conventional spoken language translation (SLT) systems are pipeline based systems, where we have an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to convert the modality of source from speech to text and a Machine Translation (MT) systems to…

Sign language is a beautiful visual language and is also the primary language used by speaking and hearing-impaired people. However, sign language has many complex expressions, which are difficult for the public to understand and master.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ronghui Li , Lu Meng

Sign language is a fundamental means of communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) community, enabling nuanced expression through gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. Despite its critical role in facilitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Brettmann , Jakob Grävinghoff , Marlene Rüschoff , Marie Westhues

The advances in automatic sign language translation (SLT) to spoken languages have been mostly benchmarked with datasets of limited size and restricted domains. Our work advances the state of the art by providing the first baseline results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Laia Tarrés , Gerard I. Gállego , Amanda Duarte , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto

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

Skeleton-aware sign language recognition (SLR) has gained popularity due to its ability to remain unaffected by background information and its lower computational requirements. Current methods utilize spatial graph modules and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Wei Feng

Like spoken languages, a single sign language expression could correspond to multiple valid textual interpretations. Hence, learning a rigid one-to-one mapping for sign language translation (SLT) models might be inadequate, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xin Shen , Lei Shen , Shaozu Yuan , Heming Du , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yu

Automatic Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a research avenue of great societal impact. End-to-End SLT facilitates the interaction of Hard-of-Hearing (HoH) with hearing people, thus improving their social life and opportunities for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andreas Voskou , Konstantinos P. Panousis , Harris Partaourides , Kyriakos Tolias , Sotirios Chatzis

Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) has advanced rapidly, achieving strong performances without relying on gloss annotations. However, these gains have often come with increased model complexity and high computational demands,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 JianHe Low , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) requires precise spatio-temporal modeling to accurately recognize sequences of gestures in videos. Existing frameworks often rely on CNN-based spatial backbones combined with temporal convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ahmed Abul Hasanaath , Hamzah Luqman

Millions of individuals worldwide are affected by deafness and hearing impairment. Sign language serves as a sophisticated means of communication for the deaf and hard of hearing. However, in societies that prioritize spoken languages, sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Safaeid Hossain Arib , Rabeya Akter , Sejuti Rahman

Code-switching (CS) speech translation (ST) aims to translate speech that alternates between multiple languages into a target language text, posing significant challenges due to the complexity of semantic modeling and the scarcity of CS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yan Gao , Yazheng Yang , Zhibin Lan , Yidong Chen , Min Zhang , Daimeng Wei , Derek F. Wong , Jinsong Su