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Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) is an important topic within the areas of human-computer interaction and machine learning. On the one hand, it poses a complex challenge that requires the intervention of various knowledge areas,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , César Estrebou , Laura Lanzarini , Alejandro Rosete

Hand gesture serves as a critical role in sign language. Current deep-learning-based sign language recognition (SLR) methods may suffer insufficient interpretability and overfitting due to limited sign data sources. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Yuechen Wang , Houqiang Li

Subtle hand differences make sign language recognition challenging, yet many existing methods rely on encoders pretrained on generic action datasets that poorly capture such fine-grained cues. We propose a self-supervised pretraining method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kunyuan Xie , Zhixi Cai , Kalin Stefanov

This paper presents a system which can recognise hand poses & gestures from the Indian Sign Language (ISL) in real-time using grid-based features. This system attempts to bridge the communication gap between the hearing and speech impaired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Kartik Shenoy , Tejas Dastane , Varun Rao , Devendra Vyavaharkar

Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) is critical for bridging the communication gap between the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community and the hearing world. However, robust ISLR is fundamentally constrained by data scarcity and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Meher Md Saad

This work presents an approach for recognizing isolated sign language gestures using skeleton-based pose data extracted from video sequences. A Graph-GRU temporal network is proposed to model both spatial and temporal dependencies between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 B. Mederos , J. Mejía , A. Medina-Reyes , Y. Espinosa-Almeyda , J. D. Díaz-Roman , I. Rodríguez-Mederos , M. Mejía-Carreon , F. Gonzalez-Lopez

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging problem, involving complex manual features, i.e., hand gestures, and fine-grained non-manual features (NMFs), i.e., facial expression, mouth shapes, etc. Although manual features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Junfu Pu , Houqiang Li

Sign language recognition (SLR) has long been plagued by insufficient model representation capabilities. Although current pre-training approaches have alleviated this dilemma to some extent and yielded promising performance by employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Wengang Zhou , Yunyao Mao , Min Wang , Houqiang Li

Human body pose estimation and hand detection are two important tasks for systems that perform computer vision-based sign language recognition(SLR). However, both tasks are challenging, especially when the input is color videos, with no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Srujana Gattupalli , Amir Ghaderi , Vassilis Athitsos

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

Transformer-based methods have recently achieved significant success in 3D human pose estimation, owing to their strong ability to model long-range dependencies. However, relying solely on the global attention mechanism is insufficient for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guangsheng Xu , Guoyi Zhang , Lejia Ye , Shuwei Gan , Xiaohu Zhang , Xia Yang

Sign language recognition (SLR) technology has enormous promise to improve communication and accessibility for the difficulty of hearing. This paper presents a novel approach for identifying gestures in TSL using the YOLOv5 object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Vipul Reddy. P , Vishnu Vardhan Reddy. B , Sukriti

Recently, there have been efforts to improve the performance in sign language recognition by designing self-supervised learning methods. However, these methods capture limited information from sign pose data in a frame-wise learning manner,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Hezhen Hu , Min Wang , Houqiang Li

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a challenging research area in computer vision. To tackle the annotation bottleneck in SLR, we formulate the problem of Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition (ZS-SLR) and propose a two-stream model from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera

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

Sign language representation learning presents unique challenges due to the complex spatio-temporal nature of signs and the scarcity of labeled datasets. Existing methods often rely either on models pre-trained on general visual tasks, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ryan Wong , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) aims to translate a signing sequence into a sentence. It is very challenging as sign language is rich in vocabulary, while many among them contain similar gestures and motions. Moreover, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Zhaoyang Yang , Zhenmei Shi , Xiaoyong Shen , Yu-Wing Tai

Sign Languages are expressed through hand and upper body gestures as well as facial expressions. Therefore, Sign Language Recognition (SLR) needs to focus on all such cues. Previous work uses hand-crafted mechanisms or network aggregation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Çağrı Gökçe , Oğulcan Özdemir , Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu , Lale Akarun

Recent approaches to Sign Language Production (SLP) have adopted spoken language Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architectures, applied without sign-specific modifications. In addition, these works represent sign language as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Recent advances in tracking sensors and pose estimation software enable smart systems to use trajectories of skeleton joint locations for supervised learning. We study the problem of accurately recognizing sign language words, which is key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Joachim Gudmundsson , Martin P. Seybold , John Pfeifer