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Our objective is to translate continuous sign language into spoken language text. Inspired by the way human interpreters rely on context for accurate translation, we incorporate additional contextual cues together with the signing video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Youngjoon Jang , Haran Raajesh , Liliane Momeni , Gül Varol , Andrew Zisserman

The objective of this work is to align asynchronous subtitles in sign language videos with limited labelled data. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel framework with the following contributions: (1) we leverage fundamental grammatical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Youngjoon Jang , Jeongsoo Choi , Junseok Ahn , Joon Son Chung

State-of-the-art sign language translation (SLT) systems facilitate the learning process through gloss annotations, either in an end2end manner or by involving an intermediate step. Unfortunately, gloss labelled sign language data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

Sign language translation (SLT) addresses the problem of translating information from a sign language in video to a spoken language in text. Existing studies, while showing progress, are often limited to narrow domains and/or few sign…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Biao Zhang , Garrett Tanzer , Orhan Firat

Sign language translation (SLT) is typically trained with text in a single spoken language, which limits scalability and cross-language generalization. Earlier approaches have replaced gloss supervision with text-based sentence embeddings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yasser Hamidullah , Shakib Yazdani , Cennet Oguz , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to convert sign language (SL) videos into spoken language text, thereby bridging the communication gap between the sign and the spoken community. While most existing works focus on translating a single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Sihan Tan , Taro Miyazaki , Kazuhiro Nakadai

The goal of this work is to temporally align asynchronous subtitles in sign language videos. In particular, we focus on sign-language interpreted TV broadcast data comprising (i) a video of continuous signing, and (ii) subtitles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hannah Bull , Triantafyllos Afouras , Gül Varol , Samuel Albanie , Liliane Momeni , Andrew Zisserman

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 map sign language videos to spoken language text. A common approach relies on gloss annotations as an intermediate representation, decomposing SLT into two sub-tasks: video-to-gloss recognition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Jianyuan Guo , Peike Li , Trevor Cohn

Systems that can efficiently search collections of sign language videos have been highlighted as a useful application of sign language technology. However, the problem of searching videos beyond individual keywords has received limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Amanda Duarte , Samuel Albanie , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Gül Varol

Sign Language Translation (SLT) bridges the communication gap between deaf people and hearing people, where dialogue provides crucial contextual cues to aid in translation. Building on this foundational concept, this paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zekang Liu , Wei Feng , Fanhua Shang , Lianyu Hu , Jichao Feng , Liqing Gao

Despite existing pioneering works on sign language translation (SLT), there is a non-trivial obstacle, i.e., the limited quantity of parallel sign-text data. To tackle this parallel data bottleneck, we propose a sign back-translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hao Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Weizhen Qi , Junfu Pu , Houqiang Li

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 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

Despite recent successes with neural models for sign language translation (SLT), translation quality still lags behind spoken languages because of the data scarcity and modality gap between sign video and text. To address both problems, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Biao Zhang , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich

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 Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos, both of which have different grammar and word/gloss order. From a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) perspective,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

In this work, our goals are two fold: large-vocabulary continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), and sign language retrieval. To this end, we introduce a multi-task Transformer model, CSLR2, that is able to ingest a signing sequence and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Charles Raude , K R Prajwal , Liliane Momeni , Hannah Bull , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman , Gül Varol

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the true sources of performance improvements often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Jian He Low , Sobhan Asasi , Richard Bowden

In the realm of Sign Language Translation (SLT), reliance on costly gloss-annotated datasets has posed a significant barrier. Recent advancements in gloss-free SLT methods have shown promise, yet they often largely lag behind gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Han Liang , Chengyu Huang , Yuecheng Xu , Cheng Tang , Weicai Ye , Juze Zhang , Xin Chen , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu
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