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Fingerspelling in sign language has been the means of communicating technical terms and proper nouns when they do not have dedicated sign language gestures. Automatic recognition of fingerspelling can help resolve communication barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Kamala Gajurel , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Fingerspelling is a component of sign languages in which words are spelled out letter by letter using specific hand poses. Automatic fingerspelling recognition plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between Deaf and hearing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Junuk Cha , Jihyeon Kim , Han-Mu Park

Sign languages play a crucial role in the communication of deaf communities, but they are often marginalized, limiting access to essential services such as healthcare and education. This study proposes an automatic sign language recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fraisse Sacré Takouchouang , Ho Tuong Vinh

Hand keypoints detection and pose estimation has numerous applications in computer vision, but it is still an unsolved problem in many aspects. An application of hand keypoints detection is in performing cognitive assessments of a subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Srujana Gattupalli , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , James Robert Brady , Fillia Makedon , Vassilis Athitsos

The primary challenge for handwriting recognition systems lies in managing long-range contextual dependencies, an issue that traditional models often struggle with. To mitigate it, attention mechanisms have recently been employed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Sara Ferro , Alessandro Torcinovich , Arianna Traviglia , Marcello Pelillo

Sign Language helps people with Speaking and Hearing Disabilities communicate with others efficiently. Sign Language identification is a challenging area in the field of computer vision and recent developments have been able to achieve near…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yugam Bajaj , Puru Malhotra

3D hand pose is an underexplored modality for action recognition. Poses are compact yet informative and can greatly benefit applications with limited compute budgets. However, poses alone offer an incomplete understanding of actions, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Md Salman Shamil , Dibyadip Chatterjee , Fadime Sener , Shugao Ma , Angela Yao

Recognizing handwritten mathematical expressions (HMER) is a challenging task due to the inherent two-dimensional structure, varying symbol scales, and complex spatial relationships among symbols. In this paper, we present a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shree Mitra , Ritabrata Chakraborty , Nilkanta Sahu

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Md Hadiuzzaman , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Jungpil Shin

Handwriting is an alternative method for entering texts composing Short Message Services. However, a whole new language features the texts which are produced. They include for instance abbreviations and other consonantal writing which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-17 Emmanuel Ep Prochasson , Christian Viard-Gaudin , Emmanuel Morin

Progress in machine understanding of sign languages has been slow and hampered by limited data. In this paper, we present FSboard, an American Sign Language fingerspelling dataset situated in a mobile text entry use case, collected from 147…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Manfred Georg , Garrett Tanzer , Saad Hassan , Maximus Shengelia , Esha Uboweja , Sam Sepah , Sean Forbes , Thad Starner

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

This study presents TSLFormer, a light and robust word-level Turkish Sign Language (TSL) recognition model that treats sign gestures as ordered, string-like language. Instead of using raw RGB or depth videos, our method only works with 3D…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kutay Ertürk , Furkan Altınışık , İrem Sarıaltın , Ömer Nezih Gerek

Hand and face play an important role in expressing sign language. Their features are usually especially leveraged to improve system performance. However, to effectively extract visual representations and capture trajectories for hands and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang liu , Wei Feng

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

Hand segmentation and fingertip detection play an indispensable role in hand gesture-based human-machine interaction systems. In this study, we propose a method to discriminate hand components and to locate fingertips in RGB-D images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Duong Hai Nguyen , Tai Nhu Do , In-Seop Na , Soo-Hyung Kim

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

Learning fine-grained movements is a challenging topic in robotics, particularly in the context of robotic hands. One specific instance of this challenge is the acquisition of fingerspelling sign language in robots. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

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

Continuously recognizing sign gestures and converting them to glosses plays a key role in bridging the gap between the hearing and hearing-impaired communities. This involves recognizing and interpreting the hands, face, and body gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Andrew Blayama Stephen , Assane Gueye