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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…

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Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) focuses on interpreting and transcribing sequences of sign language gestures in videos. In this work, we propose CLIP sign language adaptation (CLIP-SLA), a novel CSLR framework that leverages the…

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The field of Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) poses substantial technical challenges, including fluid inter-sign transitions, the absence of temporal boundaries, and co-articulation effects. This paper, developed for the MSLR…

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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…

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Sign Language Recognition (SLR) involves the automatic identification and classification of sign gestures from images or video, converting them into text or speech to improve accessibility for the hearing-impaired community. In Bangladesh,…

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Sign language translation (SLT) is an active field of study that encompasses human-computer interaction, computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. Progress on this field could lead to higher levels of integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Pedro Dal Bianco , Gastón Ríos , Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Quiroga , Oscar Stanchi , Waldo Hasperué , Alejandro Rosete

Sign language recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

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Isolated Sign Language Recognition (ISLR) approaches primarily rely on RGB data or signer pose information. However, combining these modalities often results in the loss of crucial details, such as hand shape and orientation, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sven Schreiber , Noha Sarhan , Simone Frintrop , Christian Wilms

Many continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) studies adopt transformer-based architectures for sequence modeling due to their powerful capacity for capturing global contexts. Nevertheless, vanilla self-attention, which serves as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hossein Ranjbar , Alireza Taheri

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is an important step in facilitating the communication among deaf people and the rest of society. Existing Persian sign language recognition systems are mainly restricted to static signs which are not very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Saeideh Ghanbari Azar , Hadi Seyedarabi

Sign language is the primary approach of communication for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. While there are numerous benchmarks for high-resource sign languages, low-resource languages like Arabic remain underrepresented.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mohammad Amer Khalil , Raghad Nahas , Ahmad Nassar , Khloud Al Jallad

The complexity of Sign Language (SL) data processing brings many challenges. The current approach to recognition of SL signs aims to translate RGB sign language videos through pose information into Word-based ID Glosses, which serve to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sen Fang , Yalin Feng , Chunyu Sui , Hongbin Zhong , Yanxin Zhang , Hongwei Yi , Hezhen Hu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Automatic Sign Language (SL) recognition is an important task in the computer vision community. To build a robust SL recognition system, we need a considerable amount of data which is lacking particularly in Indian sign language (ISL). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Suvajit Patra , Arkadip Maitra , Megha Tiwari , K. Kumaran , Swathy Prabhu , Swami Punyeshwarananda , Soumitra Samanta

Effective communication is paramount for the inclusion of deaf individuals in society. However, persistent communication barriers due to limited Sign Language (SL) knowledge hinder their full participation. In this context, Sign Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Carlos Eduardo G. R. Alves , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Thiago M. Paixão

Sign language recognition is a challenging problem where signs are identified by simultaneous local and global articulations of multiple sources, i.e. hand shape and orientation, hand movements, body posture, and facial expressions. Solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Hacer Yalim Keles

Computational sign language research lacks the large-scale datasets that enables the creation of useful reallife applications. To date, most research has been limited to prototype systems on small domains of discourse, e.g. weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Necati Cihan Camgoz , Ben Saunders , Guillaume Rochette , Marco Giovanelli , Giacomo Inches , Robin Nachtrab-Ribback , Richard Bowden

We present SignAvatars, the first large-scale, multi-prompt 3D sign language (SL) motion dataset designed to bridge the communication gap for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. While there has been an exponentially growing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengdi Yu , Shaoli Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Tolga Birdal

Sign language serves as a non-vocal means of communication, transmitting information and significance through gestures, facial expressions, and bodily movements. The majority of current approaches for sign language recognition (SLR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mo Guan , Yan Wang , Guangkun Ma , Jiarui Liu , Mingzu Sun

New deep-learning architectures are created every year, achieving state-of-the-art results in image recognition and leading to the belief that, in a few years, complex tasks such as sign language translation will be considerably easier,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Alvaro Leandro Cavalcante Carneiro , Lucas de Brito Silva , Denis Henrique Pinheiro Salvadeo

Bangla Sign Language Translation (BdSLT) has been severely constrained so far as the language itself is very low resource. Standard sentence level dataset creation for BdSLT is of immense importance for developing AI based assistive tools…

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