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Sign language recognition is a challenging and often underestimated problem comprising multi-modal articulators (handshape, orientation, movement, upper body and face) that integrate asynchronously on multiple streams. Learning powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Oscar Koller

Sign language serves as a non-vocal means of communication, transmitting information and significance through gestures, facial expressions, and bodily movements. The majority of current approaches for sign language recognition (SLR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mo Guan , Yan Wang , Guangkun Ma , Jiarui Liu , Mingzu Sun

Sign language is a visual language that encompasses all linguistic features of natural languages and serves as the primary communication method for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Although many studies have successfully adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ronglai Zuo , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Hearing-impaired is the disability of partial or total hearing loss that causes a significant problem for communication with other people in society. American Sign Language (ASL) is one of the sign languages that most commonly used language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Anthony S. Maida

Language models for American Sign Language (ASL) could make language technologies substantially more accessible to those who sign. To train models on tasks such as isolated sign recognition (ISR) and ASL-to-English translation, datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lee Kezar , Nidhi Munikote , Zian Zeng , Zed Sehyr , Naomi Caselli , Jesse Thomason

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 language recognition and translation technologies have the potential to increase access and inclusion of deaf signing communities, but research progress is bottlenecked by a lack of representative data. We introduce a new resource for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Lee Kezar , Elana Pontecorvo , Adele Daniels , Connor Baer , Ruth Ferster , Lauren Berger , Jesse Thomason , Zed Sevcikova Sehyr , Naomi Caselli

The Arabic Sign Language has endorsed outstanding research achievements for identifying gestures and hand signs using the deep learning methodology. The term "forms of communication" refers to the actions used by hearing-impaired people to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Rady El Rwelli , Osama R. Shahin , Ahmed I. Taloba

ChatGPT is a language model based on Generative AI. Existing research work on ChatGPT focused on its use in various domains. However, its potential for Sign Language Translation (SLT) is yet to be explored. This paper addresses this void.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

This study introduces an integrated approach to recognizing Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) using state-of-the-art deep learning models such as MobileNetV3, ResNet50, and EfficientNet-B2. These models are further enhanced by explainable AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Mazen Balat , Rewaa Awaad , Ahmed B. Zaky , Salah A. Aly

With the recent advancements in intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), their popularity is rapidly increasing when it comes to utilizing Automatic Speech Recognition within households. In this study, we used a Wizard-of-Oz methodology to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Nina Tran , Paige DeVries , Matthew Seita , Raja Kushalnagar , Abraham Glasser , Christian Vogler

Sign language recognition is a challenging gesture sequence recognition problem, characterized by quick and highly coarticulated motion. In this paper we focus on recognition of fingerspelling sequences in American Sign Language (ASL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Bowen Shi , Aurora Martinez Del Rio , Jonathan Keane , Diane Brentari , Greg Shakhnarovich , Karen Livescu

Sign language (SL) is an essential mode of communication for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) individuals. Its education remains limited by the lack of qualified instructors, insufficient early exposure, and the inadequacy of traditional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman , Refia Daya , Stefan Wagner

Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research domain, lying on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation and linguistics. Nevertheless, research in this domain is performed mostly by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mathieu De Coster , Dimitar Shterionov , Mieke Van Herreweghe , Joni Dambre

Searching for unfamiliar American Sign Language (ASL) signs is challenging for learners because, unlike spoken languages, they cannot type a text-based query to look up an unfamiliar sign. Advances in isolated sign recognition have enabled…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Saad Hassan , Matyas Bohacek , Chaelin Kim , Denise Crochet

Many technologies for human-computer interaction have been designed for hearing individuals and depend upon vocalized speech, precluding users of American Sign Language (ASL) in the Deaf community from benefiting from these advancements.…

Sign language is a set of gestures that deaf people use to communicate. Unfortunately, normal people don't understand it, which creates a communication gap that needs to be filled. Because of the variations in (Egyptian Sign Language) ESL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-27 Ahmed Elhagry , Rawan Glalal Elrayes

This paper tackles the problem of zero-shot sign language recognition (ZSSLR), where the goal is to leverage models learned over the seen sign classes to recognize the instances of unseen sign classes. In this context, readily available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yunus Can Bilge , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis

Sign language recognition involves modeling complex multichannel information, such as hand shapes and movements while relying on sufficient sign language-specific data. However, sign languages are often under-resourced, posing a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hossein Ranjbar , Alireza Taheri

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