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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

In today's digital age, video content is prevalent, serving as a primary source of information, education, and entertainment. However, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community often faces significant challenges in accessing video…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nadeen Fathallah , Monika Bhole , Steffen Staab

We study the problem of recognizing video sequences of fingerspelled letters in American Sign Language (ASL). Fingerspelling comprises a significant but relatively understudied part of ASL. Recognizing fingerspelling is challenging for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Taehwan Kim , Jonathan Keane , Weiran Wang , Hao Tang , Jason Riggle , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Diane Brentari , Karen Livescu

The hand gestures are one of the typical methods used in sign language. It is very difficult for the hearing-impaired people to communicate with the world. This project presents a solution that will not only automatically recognize the hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 K. Manikandan , Ayush Patidar , Pallav Walia , Aneek Barman Roy

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 generation (SLG), or text-to-sign generation, bridges the gap between signers and non-signers. Despite recent progress in SLG, existing methods still often suffer from incorrect lexical ordering and low semantic accuracy. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Taeryung Lee , Hyeongjin Nam , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

In this thesis, we study the problem of recognizing video sequences of fingerspelled letters in American Sign Language (ASL). Fingerspelling comprises a significant but relatively understudied part of ASL, and recognizing it is challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Taehwan Kim

This paper introduces an open-source interface for American Sign Language fingerspell recognition and semantic pose retrieval, aimed to serve as a stepping stone towards more advanced sign language translation systems. Utilizing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kevin Jose Thomas

State-of-the-art sign language generation frameworks lack expressivity and naturalness which is the result of only focusing manual signs, neglecting the affective, grammatical and semantic functions of facial expressions. The purpose of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Carla Viegas , Mert İnan , Lorna Quandt , Malihe Alikhani

Sign language is the fundamental communication method among people who suffer from speech and hearing defects. The rest of the world doesn't have a clear idea of sign language. "Sign Language Communicator" (SLC) is designed to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Matheesha Fernando , Janaka Wijayanayake

Phonetic representations are used when recording spoken languages, but no equivalent exists for recording signed languages. As a result, linguists have proposed several annotation systems that operate on the gloss or sub-unit level;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Harry Walsh , Abolfazl Ravanshad , Mariam Rahmani , Richard Bowden

Structured hand gestures that incorporate visual motions and signs are used in sign language. Sign language is a valuable means of daily communication for individuals who are deaf or have speech impairments, but it is still rare among…

Sign language is one of the most effective communication tools for people with hearing difficulties. Most existing works focus on improving the performance of sign language tasks on RGB videos, which may suffer from degraded recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Pengyu Zhang , Hao Yin , Zeren Wang , Wenyue Chen , Shengming Li , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

Existing Sign Language Learning applications focus on the demonstration of the sign in the hope that the student will copy a sign correctly. In these cases, only a teacher can confirm that the sign was completed correctly, by reviewing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Nikita Louison , Wayne Goodridge , Koffka Khan

AI technologies for Natural Languages have made tremendous progress recently. However, commensurate progress has not been made on Sign Languages, in particular, in recognizing signs as individual words or as complete sentences. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Prem Selvaraj , Gokul NC , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh Khapra

Communicative efficiency is a key topic in linguistics and cognitive psychology, with many studies demonstrating how the pressure to communicate with minimal effort guides the form of natural language. However, this phenomenon is rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Kayo Yin , Terry Regier , Dan Klein

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) has become a key enabler of inclusive human-computer interaction, fostering seamless communication between deaf individuals and hearing communities. Despite significant advances in multimodal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiaofang Xiao , Guangchao Li , Guangrong Zhao , Qi Lin , Wen Ma , Hongkai Wen , Yanxiang Wang , Yiran Shen

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…

There is accelerating interest in sign language technologies (SLTs), with increasing attention from both industry and academia. However, the perspectives of Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals remain marginalized in their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Katherine Atwell , Saki Imai , Danielle Bragg , Malihe Alikhani

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman