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This research explores using lightweight deep neural network architectures to enable the humanoid robot Pepper to understand American Sign Language (ASL) and facilitate non-verbal human-robot interaction. First, we introduce a lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 JongYoon Lim , Inkyu Sa , Bruce MacDonald , Ho Seok Ahn

We use insights from research on American Sign Language (ASL) phonology to train models for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR), a step towards automatic sign language understanding. Our key insight is to explicitly recognize the role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lee Kezar , Jesse Thomason , Zed Sevcikova Sehyr

This research combines MediaPipe and CNNs for the efficient and accurate interpretation of ASL dataset for the real-time detection of sign language. The system presented here captures and processes hands' gestures in real time. the intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Aditya Raj Verma , Gagandeep Singh , Karnim Meghwal , Banawath Ramji , Praveen Kumar Dadheech

Vision-based sign language recognition aims at helping deaf people to communicate with others. However, most existing sign language datasets are limited to a small number of words. Due to the limited vocabulary size, models learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dongxu Li , Cristian Rodriguez Opazo , Xin Yu , Hongdong Li

In this paper, we propose a dual-condition diffusion pre-training model named SignDiff that can generate human sign language speakers from a skeleton pose. SignDiff has a novel Frame Reinforcement Network called FR-Net, similar to dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Sen Fang , Chunyu Sui , Yanghao Zhou , Xuedong Zhang , Hongbin Zhong , Yapeng Tian , Chen Chen

We present SignAvatars, the first large-scale, multi-prompt 3D sign language (SL) motion dataset designed to bridge the communication gap for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. While there has been an exponentially growing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengdi Yu , Shaoli Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Tolga Birdal

Deaf individuals confront significant communication obstacles on a daily basis. Their inability to hear makes it difficult for them to communicate with those who do not understand sign language. Moreover, it presents difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Velmathi G , Kaushal Goyal

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

To equip SL with software properly, we need an input system to represent and manipulate signed contents in the same way that every day software allows to process written text. Refuting the claim that video is good enough a medium to serve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Michael Filhol

While sign language translation systems promise to enhance deaf people's access to information and communication, they have been met with strong skepticism from deaf communities due to risks of misrepresenting and oversimplifying the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xinru Tang , Anne Marie Piper

We propose a novel approach for the synthesis of sign language videos using GANs. We extend the previous work of Stoll et al. by using the human semantic parser of the Soft-Gated Warping-GAN from to produce photorealistic videos guided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Christopher Kissel , Christopher Kümmel , Dennis Ritter , Kristian Hildebrand

Existing work on sign language translation - that is, translation from sign language videos into sentences in a written language - has focused mainly on (1) data collected in a controlled environment or (2) data in a specific domain, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Bowen Shi , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

The hearing-impaired community in India deserves the access to tools that help them communicate, however, there is limited known technology solutions that make use of Indian Sign Language (ISL) at present. Even though there are many ISL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Smruti Jagtap , Kanika Jadhav , Rushikesh Temkar , Minal Deshmukh

Sign language processing technology development relies on extensive and reliable datasets, instructions, and ethical guidelines. We present a comprehensive Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset (AzSLD) collected from diverse sign language users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Nigar Alishzade , Jamaladdin Hasanov

Modern computational linguistic software cannot produce important aspects of sign language translation. Using some researches we deduce that the majority of automatic sign language translation systems ignore many aspects when they generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-15 Mehrez Boulares , Mohamed Jemni

Sign language is an essential means of communication for millions of people around the world and serves as their primary language. However, most communication tools are developed for spoken and written languages which can cause problems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ali Ghadami , Alireza Taheri , Ali Meghdari

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

The recent surge in large language models has automated translations of spoken and written languages. However, these advances remain largely inaccessible to American Sign Language (ASL) users, whose language relies on complex visual cues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Perkins , Davis Hunter , Dhrumil Patel , Galen Flanagan

The objective of this paper is to develop a functional system for translating spoken languages into sign languages, referred to as Spoken2Sign translation. The Spoken2Sign task is orthogonal and complementary to traditional sign language to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Zenggui Chen , Brian Mak , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters and 100s of hours of data but remain only partially annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Colin Lea , Vasileios Baltatzis , Connor Gillis , Raja Kushalnagar , Lorna Quandt , Leah Findlater