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Sign language generation aims to produce diverse sign representations based on spoken language. However, achieving realistic and naturalistic generation remains a significant challenge due to the complexity of sign language, which…

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Sign language translation (SLT), which generates text in a spoken language from visual content in a sign language, is important to assist the hard-of-hearing community for their communications. Inspired by neural machine translation (NMT),…

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Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) converts sign videos directly into spoken language sentences without relying on glosses. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable translation performance in gloss-free methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Junmyeong Lee , Jong C. Park

The diversity of sign representation is essential for Sign Language Production (SLP) as it captures variations in appearance, facial expressions, and hand movements. However, existing SLP models are often unable to capture diversity while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

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

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hao Chen , Jiaze Wang , Ziyu Guo , Jinpeng Li , Donghao Zhou , Bian Wu , Chenyong Guan , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Sign language recognition (SLR) refers to interpreting sign language glosses from given videos automatically. This research area presents a complex challenge in computer vision because of the rapid and intricate movements inherent in sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Muxin Pu , Mei Kuan Lim , Chun Yong Chong

We have come up with a research that hopes to provide a bridge between the users of American Sign Language and the users of spoken language and Indian Sign Language (ISL). The research enabled us to create a novel framework that we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Malay Kumar , S. Sarvajit Visagan , Tanish Sarang Mahajan , Anisha Natarajan

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that requires bridging the modality gap between visual and linguistic information while capturing subtle variations in hand shapes and movements. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sobhan Asasi , Mohamed Ilyas Lakhal , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation (SLT) is a challenging task that involves translating sign language images into spoken language. For SLT models to perform this task successfully, they must bridge the modality gap and identify subtle variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jungeun Kim , Hyeongwoo Jeon , Jongseong Bae , Ha Young Kim

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to translate natural language from sign language videos, serving as a vital bridge for inclusive communication. While recent advances leverage powerful visual backbones and large language models, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Wenfang Wu , Tingting Yuan , Yupeng Li , Daling Wang , Xiaoming Fu

Sign language machine translation (SLMT) -- the task of automatically translating between sign and spoken languages or between sign languages -- is a complex task within the field of NLP. Its multi-modal and non-linear nature require the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lisa Lepp , Dimitar Shterionov , Mirella De Sisto , Grzegorz Chrupała

A persistent challenge in sign language video processing, including the task of sign to written language translation, is how we learn representations of sign language in an effective and efficient way that preserves the important attributes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shester Gueuwou , Xiaodan Du , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Sign Language Recognition (SLR) models face significant performance limitations due to insufficient training data availability. In this article, we address the challenge of limited data in SLR by introducing a novel and lightweight sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Gaston Gustavo Rios , Pedro Dal Bianco , Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Quiroga , Oscar Stanchi , Santiago Ponte Ahón , Waldo Hasperué

Recent work have addressed the generation of human poses represented by 2D/3D coordinates of human joints for sign language. We use the state of the art in Deep Learning for motion transfer and evaluate them on How2Sign, an American Sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Lucas Ventura , Amanda Duarte , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Sign Language Translation (SLT) converts sign language videos into spoken-language text, bridging communication between Deaf and hearing communities. Current gloss-free approaches rely on large encoder-decoder models, limiting deployment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kuanwei Chen , Mengfeng Tsai

Existing end-to-end sign-language animation systems suffer from low naturalness, limited facial/body expressivity, and no user control. We propose a human-centered, real-time speech-to-sign animation framework that integrates (1) a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yingchao Li

Sign language translation remains a challenging task due to the scarcity of large-scale, sentence-aligned datasets. Prior arts have focused on various feature extraction and architectural changes to support neural machine translation for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Abhinav Joshi , Vaibhav Sharma , Sanjeet Singh , Ashutosh Modi

Many SLT systems quietly assume that brief chunks of signing map directly to spoken-language words. That assumption breaks down because signers often create meaning on the fly using context, space, and movement. We revisit SLT and argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yiyang Jiang , Li Zhang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Li Qing

Hand gesture-based Sign Language Recognition (SLR) serves as a crucial communication bridge between deaf and non-deaf individuals. While Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are common, they are limited by their reliance on fixed skeletal…

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