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Sign language recognition suffers from catastrophic scaling failure: models achieving high accuracy on small vocabularies collapse at realistic sizes. Existing architectures treat signs as atomic visual patterns, learning flat…

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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems exhibit the best performance on speech that is similar to that on which it was trained. As such, underrepresented varieties including regional dialects, minority-speakers, and low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Emma O'Neill , Julie Carson-Berndsen

Sign language recognition (SLR) for low-resource languages like Bangla suffers from signer variability, viewpoint variations, and limited annotated datasets. In this paper, we present BdSLW401, a large-scale, multi-view, word-level Bangla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Husne Ara Rubaiyeat , Njayou Youssouf , Md Kamrul Hasan , Hasan Mahmud

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) has rapidly advanced in recent years. Towards overcoming the annotation bottleneck in the Sign Language Recognition (SLR), we explore the idea of Zero-Shot Sign Language Recognition (ZS-SLR) with no annotated visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Razieh Rastgoo , Kourosh Kiani , Sergio Escalera , Mohammad Sabokrou

Sign language recognition (SLR) facilitates communication between deaf and hearing communities. Deep learning based SLR models are commonly used but require extensive computational resources, making them unsuitable for deployment on edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nitin Kumar Singh , Arie Rachmad Syulistyo , Yuichiro Tanaka , Hakaru Tamukoh

Models of sign language have historically lagged behind those for spoken language (text and speech). Recent work has greatly improved their performance on tasks like sign language translation and isolated sign recognition. However, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Serpil Karabüklü , Kanishka Misra , Shester Gueuwou , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Bangla typing is mostly performed using English keyboard and can be highly erroneous due to the presence of compound and similarly pronounced letters. Spelling correction of a misspelled word requires understanding of word typing pattern as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman , MD. Hasibur Rahman , Samiha Zakir , Mohammad Rafsan , Mohammed Eunus Ali

Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) is an important topic within the areas of human-computer interaction and machine learning. On the one hand, it poses a complex challenge that requires the intervention of various knowledge areas,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Franco Ronchetti , Facundo Manuel Quiroga , César Estrebou , Laura Lanzarini , Alejandro Rosete

Hand gesture serves as a critical role in sign language. Current deep-learning-based sign language recognition (SLR) methods may suffer insufficient interpretability and overfitting due to limited sign data sources. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hezhen Hu , Weichao Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Yuechen Wang , Houqiang Li

Sign Language Translation has attained considerable success recently, raising hopes for improved communication with the Deaf. A pre-processing step called tokenization improves the success of translations. Tokens can be learned from sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Alptekin Orbay , Lale Akarun

Sign Language Assessment (SLA) tools are useful to aid in language learning and are underdeveloped. Previous work has focused on isolated signs or comparison against a single reference video to assess Sign Languages (SL). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Oliver Cory , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Matthew Vowels , Alessia Battisti , Franz Holzknecht , Katja Tissi , Sandra Sidler-Miserez , Tobias Haug , Sarah Ebling , Richard Bowden

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

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

This work tackles the challenge of continuous sign language segmentation, a key task with huge implications for sign language translation and data annotation. We propose a transformer-based architecture that models the temporal dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 JianHe Low , Harry Walsh , Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Handwriting is an alternative method for entering texts composing Short Message Services. However, a whole new language features the texts which are produced. They include for instance abbreviations and other consonantal writing which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-17 Emmanuel Ep Prochasson , Christian Viard-Gaudin , Emmanuel Morin

Deep learning has become a breathtaking technology in the last years, overcoming traditional handcrafted approaches and even humans for many different tasks. However, in some tasks, such as the verification of handwritten signatures, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Fatimah Mohamed Emad Elden

The automatic interpretation of sign languages is a challenging task, as it requires the usage of high-level vision and high-level motion processing systems for providing accurate image perception. In this paper, we use Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Gustaf Halvardsson , Johanna Peterson , César Soto-Valero , Benoit Baudry

Handwriting is one of the most important means of daily communication. Although the problem of handwriting recognition has been considered for more than 60 years there are still many open issues, especially in the task of unconstrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Firoj Parwej

Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between the hearing and vocally impaired community and the rest of the society. Word-level sign language recognition (WSLR) is the first important step…

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