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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

The goal of sign language recognition (SLR) is to help those who are hard of hearing or deaf overcome the communication barrier. Most existing approaches can be typically divided into two lines, i.e., Skeleton-based and RGB-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiaolong Shen , Zhedong Zheng , Yi Yang

Bangladeshi Sign Language (BdSL) is a commonly used medium of communication for the hearing-impaired people in Bangladesh. A real-time BdSL interpreter with no controlled lab environment has a broad social impact and an interesting avenue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Oishee Bintey Hoque , Mohammad Imrul Jubair , Al-Farabi Akash , Saiful Islam

Event-guided imaging has received significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize instant imaging systems. However, the prior methods primarily focus on enhancing RGB images in a post-processing manner, neglecting the challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunfan Lu , Yanlin Qian , Ziyang Rao , Junren Xiao , Liming Chen , Hui Xiong

To promote inclusion and ensuring effective communication for those who rely on sign language as their main form of communication, sign language recognition (SLR) is crucial. Sign language recognition (SLR) seamlessly incorporates with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 A. E. M Ridwan , Mushfiqul Islam Chowdhury , Mekhala Mariam Mary , Md Tahmid Chowdhury Abir

In this work, our goals are two fold: large-vocabulary continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), and sign language retrieval. To this end, we introduce a multi-task Transformer model, CSLR2, that is able to ingest a signing sequence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Charles Raude , K R Prajwal , Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman , Gül Varol

Despite recent successes with neural models for sign language translation (SLT), translation quality still lags behind spoken languages because of the data scarcity and modality gap between sign video and text. To address both problems, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Biao Zhang , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

One of the main challenges of the sign language recognition task is the difficulty of collecting a suitable dataset due to the gap between hard-of-hearing and hearing societies. In addition, the sign language in each country differs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Alexander Kapitanov , Karina Kvanchiani , Alexander Nagaev , Elizaveta Petrova

Gestural language is used by deaf & mute communities to communicate through hand gestures & body movements that rely on visual-spatial patterns known as sign languages. Sign languages, which rely on visual-spatial patterns of hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Rajat Singhal , Jatin Gupta , Akhil Sharma , Anushka Gupta , Navya Sharma

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Existing datasets for RGB-DVS tracking are collected with DVS346 camera and their resolution ($346 \times 260$) is low for practical applications. Actually, only visible cameras are deployed in many practical systems, and the newly designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yabin Zhu , Xiao Wang , Chenglong Li , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Zhixiang Huang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang

The field of sign language translation has witnessed significant progress in the translation between sign and spoken languages, but the translation between sign languages remains largely unexplored and out of reach. The latter can help 1.5…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zetian Wu , Bowen Xie , Wuyang Meng , Milan Gautam , Stefan Lee , Liang Huang

Emotion Recognition in Conversation is a core component of affective computing, while current resources of sign language emotion datasets primarily focus on isolated sentences and lack conversational context. Models trained exclusively on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yusong Wang , Keyu Mao , Takao Obi , Minghao Shao , Kotaro Funakoshi

The absence of effective communication the deaf population represents the main social gap in this community. Furthermore, the sign language, main deaf communication tool, is unlettered, i.e., there is no formal written representation. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Fredy Alejandro Mendoza López , Jefferson Rodriguez , Fabio Martínez

In recent decades, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) has gained significant interest in both academia and industry. It estimates camera motion and reconstructs the environment concurrently using visual sensors on a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kunping Huang , Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

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

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

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 Translation (SLT) is a promising technology to bridge the communication gap between the deaf and the hearing people. Recently, researchers have adopted Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods, which usually require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Biao Fu , Peigen Ye , Liang Zhang , Pei Yu , Cong Hu , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi