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Sign Language Translation (SLT) attempts to convert sign language videos into spoken sentences. However, many existing methods struggle with the disparity between visual and textual representations during end-to-end learning. Gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sobhan Asasi , Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

Sign language video generation requires producing natural signing motions with realistic appearances under precise semantic control, yet faces two critical challenges: excessive signer-specific data requirements and poor generalization. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jiayi He , Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Yaxiong Wang , Lechao Cheng , Dan Guo

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to translate sign videos into spoken language. Inspired by the strong translation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) that are trained on extensive multilingual text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jia Gong , Lin Geng Foo , Yixuan He , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Sign languages are essential for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community. Sign language generation systems have the potential to support communication by translating from written languages, such as English, into signed videos. However,…

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task due to its cross-domain nature, involving the translation of visual-gestural language to text. Many previous methods employ an intermediate representation, i.e., gloss sequences, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjia Zhou , Zhigang Chen , Albert Clapés , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Sergio Escalera , Zhen Lei , Du Zhang

Sign language generation (SLG), or text-to-sign generation, bridges the gap between signers and non-signers. Despite recent progress in SLG, existing methods still often suffer from incorrect lexical ordering and low semantic accuracy. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Taeryung Lee , Hyeongjin Nam , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Sign Languages (SL) serve as the primary mode of communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities. Deep learning methods for SL recognition and translation have achieved promising results. However, Sign Language Production (SLP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Vasileios Baltatzis , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Evangelos Ververas , Guanxiong Sun , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We aim to solve the highly challenging task of generating continuous sign language videos solely from speech segments for the first time. Recent efforts in this space have focused on generating such videos from human-annotated text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Parul Kapoor , Rudrabha Mukhopadhyay , Sindhu B Hegde , Vinay Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

It is common practice to represent spoken languages at their phonetic level. However, for sign languages, this implies breaking motion into its constituent motion primitives. Avatar based Sign Language Production (SLP) has traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Video Generation (SLVG) seeks to generate identity-preserving sign language videos from spoken language texts. Existing methods primarily rely on the single coarse condition (\eg, skeleton sequences) as the intermediary to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Cong Wang , Zexuan Deng , Zhiwei Jiang , Yafeng Yin , Fei Shen , Zifeng Cheng , Shiping Ge , Shiwei Gan , Qing Gu

Sign Language Production (SLP) aims to generate sign videos corresponding to spoken language sentences, where the conversion of sign Glosses to Poses (G2P) is the key step. Due to the cross-modal semantic gap and the lack of word-action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xu Wang , Shengeng Tang , Peipei Song , Shuo Wang , Dan Guo , Richang Hong

Earlier Sign Language Production (SLP) models typically relied on autoregressive methods that generate output tokens one by one, which inherently provide temporal alignment. Although techniques like Teacher Forcing can prevent model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Maoxiao Ye , Xinfeng Ye , Mano Manoharan

In this work, we propose a two-stage sign language production (SLP) paradigm that first encodes sign language sequences into discrete codes and then autoregressively generates sign language from text based on the learned codebook. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Aoxiong Yin , Haoyuan Li , Kai Shen , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Sign Language Translation (SLT) first uses a Sign Language Recognition (SLR) system to extract sign language glosses from videos. Then, a translation system generates spoken language translations from the sign language glosses. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kayo Yin , Jesse Read

Machine learning models fundamentally rely on large quantities of high-quality data. Collecting the necessary data for these models can be challenging due to cost, scarcity, and privacy restrictions. Signed languages are visual languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Harry Walsh , Maksym Ivashechkin , Richard Bowden

Sign Languages are rich multi-channel languages, requiring articulation of both manual (hands) and non-manual (face and body) features in a precise, intricate manner. Sign Language Production (SLP), the automatic translation from spoken to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a task that has not been studied relatively much compared to the study of Sign Language Recognition (SLR). However, the SLR is a study that recognizes the unique grammar of sign language, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Youngmin Kim , Minji Kwak , Dain Lee , Yeongeun Kim , Hyeongboo Baek

Signed Language Processing (SLP) concerns the automated processing of signed languages, the main means of communication of Deaf and hearing impaired individuals. SLP features many different tasks, ranging from sign recognition to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Federico Tavella , Viktor Schlegel , Marta Romeo , Aphrodite Galata , Angelo Cangelosi

Sign language understanding has made significant strides; however, there is still no viable solution for generating sign sequences directly from entire spoken content, e.g., text or speech. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian Ma , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang , Feng Zheng

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