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Skeleton-aware sign language recognition (SLR) has gained popularity due to its ability to remain unaffected by background information and its lower computational requirements. Current methods utilize spatial graph modules and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Lianyu Hu , Liqing Gao , Zekang Liu , Wei Feng

The reasoning segmentation task involves segmenting objects within an image by interpreting implicit user instructions, which may encompass subtleties such as contextual cues and open-world knowledge. Despite significant advancements made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Weihuang Lin , Yiwei Ma , Xiaoshuai Sun , Shuting He , Jiayi Ji , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Recent advancements in handwritten text recognition (HTR) have enabled the effective conversion of handwritten text to digital formats. However, achieving robust recognition across diverse writing styles remains challenging. Traditional HTR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wenhao Gu , Li Gu , Ching Yee Suen , Yang Wang

Despite recent significant advancements in Handwritten Document Recognition (HDR), the efficient and accurate recognition of text against complex backgrounds, diverse handwriting styles, and varying document layouts remains a practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Wenhao Gu , Li Gu , Ziqiang Wang , Ching Yee Suen , Yang Wang

Lipreading is the task of decoding text from the movement of a speaker's mouth. Traditional approaches separated the problem into two stages: designing or learning visual features, and prediction. More recent deep lipreading approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Yannis M. Assael , Brendan Shillingford , Shimon Whiteson , Nando de Freitas

Millions of hearing impaired people around the world routinely use some variants of sign languages to communicate, thus the automatic translation of a sign language is meaningful and important. Currently, there are two sub-problems in Sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jie Huang , Wengang Zhou , Qilin Zhang , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

Sign languages are the language of hearing-impaired people who use visuals like the hand, facial, and body movements for communication. There are different signs and gestures representing alphabets, words, and phrases. Nowadays…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sharvani Srivastava , Sudhakar Singh , Pooja , Shiv Prakash

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

Due to the rapid temporal and fine-grained nature of complex human assembly atomic actions, traditional action segmentation approaches requiring the spatial (and often temporal) down sampling of video frames often loose vital fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Matthew Kent Myers , Nick Wright , Stephen McGough , Nicholas Martin

Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR) has emerged as a vital field for bridging the gap between deaf and hearing communities. However, the problem of sign-to-sign retrieval or detecting a specific sign within a sequence of continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Samuel Ebimobowei Johnny , Blessed Guda , Emmanuel Enejo Aaron , Assane Gueye

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

Handwritten Text Recognition has achieved an impressive performance in public benchmarks. However, due to the high inter- and intra-class variability between handwriting styles, such recognizers need to be trained using huge volumes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

Encoder-decoder models have become an effective approach for sequence learning tasks like machine translation, image captioning and speech recognition, but have yet to show competitive results for handwritten text recognition. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Johannes Michael , Roger Labahn , Tobias Grüning , Jochen Zöllner

Despite the advent of deep learning in computer vision, the general handwriting recognition problem is far from solved. Most existing approaches focus on handwriting datasets that have clearly written text and carefully segmented labels. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Hai Pham , Amrith Setlur , Saket Dingliwal , Tzu-Hsiang Lin , Barnabas Poczos , Kang Huang , Zhuo Li , Jae Lim , Collin McCormack , Tam Vu

Identifying a short segment in a long video that semantically matches a text query is a challenging task that has important application potentials in language-based video search, browsing, and navigation. Typical retrieval systems respond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Bowen Zhang , Hexiang Hu , Joonseok Lee , Ming Zhao , Sheide Chammas , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , Fei Sha

Lipreading refers to understanding and further translating the speech of a speaker in the video into natural language. State-of-the-art lipreading methods excel in interpreting overlap speakers, i.e., speakers appear in both training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Feng Xue , Yu Li , Deyin Liu , Yincen Xie , Lin Wu , Richang Hong

Recent advances in handwritten text recognition enabled to recognize whole documents in an end-to-end way: the Document Attention Network (DAN) recognizes the characters one after the other through an attention-based prediction process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Denis Coquenet , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

The current state-of-the-art hand gesture recognition methodologies heavily rely in the use of machine learning. However there are scenarios that machine learning cannot be applied successfully, for example in situations where data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Michalis Lazarou , Bo Li , Tania Stathaki

To be truly understandable and accepted by Deaf communities, an automatic Sign Language Production (SLP) system must generate a photo-realistic signer. Prior approaches based on graphical avatars have proven unpopular, whereas recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Driven by deep learning and the large volume of data, scene text recognition has evolved rapidly in recent years. Formerly, RNN-attention based methods have dominated this field, but suffer from the problem of \textit{attention drift} in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Zhaoyi Wan , Minghang He , Haoran Chen , Xiang Bai , Cong Yao