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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

The lack of fluency in sign language remains a barrier to seamless communication for hearing and speech-impaired communities. In this work, we propose a low-cost, real-time ASL-to-speech translation glove and an exhaustive training dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Aditya Makkar , Divya Makkar , Aarav Patel , Liam Hebert

In recent years, deep learning techniques have been used to develop sign language recognition systems, potentially serving as a communication tool for millions of hearing-impaired individuals worldwide. However, there are inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Alvaro Leandro Cavalcante Carneiro , Denis Henrique Pinheiro Salvadeo , Lucas de Brito Silva

Human Pose (HP) estimation is actively researched because of its wide range of applications. However, even estimators pre-trained on large datasets may not perform satisfactorily due to a domain gap between the training and test data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Hiromu Taketsugu , Norimichi Ukita

This project explores methods to enhance sign language translation of German sign language, specifically focusing on disambiguation of homonyms. Sign language is ambiguous and understudied which is the basis for our experiments. We approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jana Grimm , Miriam Winkler , Oliver Kraus , Tanalp Agustoslu

Thanks to advances in deep learning techniques, Human Pose Estimation (HPE) has achieved significant progress in natural scenarios. However, these models perform poorly in artificial scenarios such as painting and sculpture due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jingyao Li , Pengguang Chen , Xuan Ju , Hong Xu , Jiaya Jia

Sign language serves as the primary meaning of communication for the deaf-mute community. Different from spoken language, it commonly conveys information by the collaboration of manual features, i.e., hand gestures and body movements, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Wengang Zhou , Weichao Zhao , Hezhen Hu , Zecheng Li , Houqiang Li

Quantifying the uncertainty of an object's pose estimate is essential for robust control and planning. Although pose estimation is a well-studied robotics problem, attaching statistically rigorous uncertainty is not well understood without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Lorenzo Shaikewitz , Charis Georgiou , Luca Carlone

Recently, a few self-supervised representation learning (SSL) methods have outperformed the ImageNet classification pre-training for vision tasks such as object detection. However, its effects on 3D human body pose and shape estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hongsuk Choi , Hyeongjin Nam , Taeryung Lee , Gyeongsik Moon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight, modular SLT framework, Spotter+GPT, that leverages the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Sign language translation (SLT) aims to interpret sign video sequences into text-based natural language sentences. Sign videos consist of continuous sequences of sign gestures with no clear boundaries in between. Existing SLT models usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Dongxu Li , Chenchen Xu , Xin Yu , Kaihao Zhang , Ben Swift , Hanna Suominen , Hongdong Li

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 languages play a crucial role in the communication of deaf communities, but they are often marginalized, limiting access to essential services such as healthcare and education. This study proposes an automatic sign language recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fraisse Sacré Takouchouang , Ho Tuong Vinh

In this paper, we address the problem of pitch estimation using Self Supervised Learning (SSL). The SSL paradigm we use is equivariance to pitch transposition, which enables our model to accurately perform pitch estimation on monophonic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Alain Riou , Stefan Lattner , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Geoffroy Peeters

Current direct speech-to-speech translation methods predominantly employ speech tokens as intermediate representations. However, a single speech token is not dense in semantics, so we generally need multiple tokens to express a complete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jianjin Wang , Runsong Zhao , Xiaoqian Liu , Yuan Ge , Ziqiang Xu , Tong Xiao , Shengxiang Gao , Zhengtao Yu , Jingbo Zhu

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

In this paper, we delve into semi-supervised 2D human pose estimation. The previous method ignored two problems: (i) When conducting interactive training between large model and lightweight model, the pseudo label of lightweight model will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Linzhi Huang , Yulong Li , Hongbo Tian , Yue Yang , Xiangang Li , Weihong Deng , Jieping Ye

Existing 2D human pose estimation research predominantly concentrates on well-lit scenarios, with limited exploration of poor lighting conditions, which are a prevalent aspect of daily life. Recent studies on low-light pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Yihao Ai , Yifei Qi , Bo Wang , Yu Cheng , Xinchao Wang , Robby T. Tan

The human body communicates through various meaningful gestures, with sign language using hands being a prominent example. Bangla Sign Language Translation (BSLT) aims to bridge communication gaps for the deaf and mute community. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Rotan Hawlader Pranto , Shahnewaz Siddique

The recent surge in large language models has automated translations of spoken and written languages. However, these advances remain largely inaccessible to American Sign Language (ASL) users, whose language relies on complex visual cues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Perkins , Davis Hunter , Dhrumil Patel , Galen Flanagan