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Neural Sign Language Production (SLP) aims to automatically translate from spoken language sentences to sign language videos. Historically the SLP task has been broken into two steps; Firstly, translating from a spoken language sentence to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Harry Walsh , Ben Saunders , Richard Bowden

Audio-Visual Speech-to-Speech Translation typically prioritizes improving translation quality and naturalness. However, an equally critical aspect in audio-visual content is lip-synchrony-ensuring that the movements of the lips match the…

Translating natural languages into sign languages is a highly complex and underexplored task. Despite growing interest in accessibility and inclusivity, the development of robust translation systems remains hindered by the limited…

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Recent image-to-image (I2I) translation algorithms focus on learning the mapping from a source to a target domain. However, the continuous translation problem that synthesizes intermediate results between two domains has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Qi Mao , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang , Siwei Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Most existing sign language translation (SLT) datasets are limited in scale, lack multilingual coverage, and are costly to curate due to their reliance on expert annotation and controlled recording setup. Recently, Vision Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shakib Yazdani , Yasser Hamidullah , Cristina España-Bonet , Josef van Genabith

Sign language plays a crucial role in bridging communication gaps between the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. However, existing sign language video generation models often rely on complex intermediate representations, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Liuzhou Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Luyao Tang , Zirui Song , Hongyang He , Renda Han , Guangzhen Yao , Huacan Wang , Ronghao Chen , Xiuying Chen , Guan Huang , Zheng Zhu

Sign language processing technology development relies on extensive and reliable datasets, instructions, and ethical guidelines. We present a comprehensive Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset (AzSLD) collected from diverse sign language users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Nigar Alishzade , Jamaladdin Hasanov

Humans are capable of processing speech by making use of multiple sensory modalities. For example, the environment where a conversation takes place generally provides semantic and/or acoustic context that helps us to resolve ambiguities or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Ozan Caglayan , Ramon Sanabria , Shruti Palaskar , Loïc Barrault , Florian Metze

Vision-based sign language recognition aims at helping deaf people to communicate with others. However, most existing sign language datasets are limited to a small number of words. Due to the limited vocabulary size, models learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dongxu Li , Cristian Rodriguez Opazo , Xin Yu , Hongdong Li

Sign language production (SLP) aims to translate spoken language sentences into a sequence of pose frames in a sign language, bridging the communication gap and promoting digital inclusion for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liqian Feng , Lintao Wang , Kun Hu , Dehui Kong , Zhiyong Wang

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

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Speech recognition is very challenging in student learning environments that are characterized by significant cross-talk and background noise. To address this problem, we present a bilingual speech recognition system that uses an…

End-to-end (E2E) spoken language understanding (SLU) can infer semantics directly from speech signal without cascading an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) with a natural language understanding (NLU) module. However, paired utterance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yao Qian , Ximo Bian , Yu Shi , Naoyuki Kanda , Leo Shen , Zhen Xiao , Michael Zeng

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

Sign languages are visual languages, with vocabularies as rich as their spoken language counterparts. However, current deep-learning based Sign Language Production (SLP) models produce under-articulated skeleton pose sequences from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters and 100s of hours of data but remain only partially annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Colin Lea , Vasileios Baltatzis , Connor Gillis , Raja Kushalnagar , Lorna Quandt , Leah Findlater

We introduce the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign class examples to recognize the instances of unseen signs. To this end, we propose to utilize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yunus Can Bilge , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Audio-visual pre-trained models have gained substantial attention recently and demonstrated superior performance on various audio-visual tasks. This study investigates whether pre-trained audio-visual models demonstrate non-arbitrary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Yi-Jen Shih , David Harwath , Raymond Mooney

Sign language translation has historically been peripheral to mainstream machine translation research. In order to help converge the fields, we introduce FLEURS-ASL, an extension of the multiway parallel benchmarks FLORES (for text) and…

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