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After the interviews, it has been comprehended that speech-impaired individuals who use sign languages have difficulty communicating with other people who do not know sign language. Due to the communication problems, the sense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Arda Mavi , Zeynep Dikle

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

Cued Speech (CS) is an advanced visual phonetic encoding system that integrates lip reading with hand codings, enabling people with hearing impairments to communicate efficiently. CS video generation aims to produce specific lip and gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wentao Lei , Li Liu , Jun Wang

Significant progress has been made recently on challenging tasks in automatic sign language understanding, such as sign language recognition, translation and production. However, these works have focused on datasets with relatively few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alvaro Budria , Laia Tarres , Gerard I. Gallego , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communication barriers in critical settings. Sign languages present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Phoebe Chua , Cathy Mengying Fang , Takehiko Ohkawa , Raja Kushalnagar , Suranga Nanayakkara , Pattie Maes

Sign languages are natural, visual-gestural languages used by Deaf communities worldwide. Over 300 distinct sign languages remain severely low-resource due to limited documentation, sparse datasets, and insufficient computational tools.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nigar Alishzade , Gulchin Abdullayeva

Sign language is commonly used by deaf or mute people to communicate but requires extensive effort to master. It is usually performed with the fast yet delicate movement of hand gestures, body posture, and even facial expressions. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Songyao Jiang , Bin Sun , Lichen Wang , Yue Bai , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu

There is an undeniable communication barrier between deaf people and people with normal hearing ability. Although innovations in sign language translation technology aim to tear down this communication barrier, the majority of existing sign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Biyi Fang , Jillian Co , Mi Zhang

Historically, sign language machine translation has been posed as a sentence-level task: datasets consisting of continuous narratives are chopped up and presented to the model as isolated clips. In this work, we explore the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Garrett Tanzer , Maximus Shengelia , Ken Harrenstien , David Uthus

Sign language is the fundamental communication method among people who suffer from speech and hearing defects. The rest of the world doesn't have a clear idea of sign language. "Sign Language Communicator" (SLC) is designed to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Matheesha Fernando , Janaka Wijayanayake

Phonetic representations are used when recording spoken languages, but no equivalent exists for recording signed languages. As a result, linguists have proposed several annotation systems that operate on the gloss or sub-unit level;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Harry Walsh , Abolfazl Ravanshad , Mariam Rahmani , Richard Bowden

The focus of this work is $\textit{sign spotting}$ - given a video of an isolated sign, our task is to identify $\textit{whether}$ and $\textit{where}$ it has been signed in a continuous, co-articulated sign language video. To achieve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Gül Varol , Liliane Momeni , Samuel Albanie , Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Zisserman

Sign language, which contains hand movements, facial expressions and bodily gestures, is a significant medium for communicating with hard-of-hearing people. A well-trained sign language community communicates easily, but those who don't…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ajeet Kumar Yadav , Nishant Kumar , Rathna G N

This paper employs a multimodal approach for continuous sign recognition by first using ML for detecting the start and end frames of signs in videos of American Sign Language (ASL) sentences, and then by recognizing the segmented signs. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mingyu Zhao , Zhanfu Yang , Yang Zhou , Zhaoyang Xia , Can Jin , Xiaoxiao He , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Sign language datasets are often not representative in terms of vocabulary, underscoring the need for models that generalize to unseen signs. Vector quantization is a promising approach for learning discrete, token-like representations, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Lee Kezar , Zed Sehyr , Jesse Thomason

Gestural language is used by deaf & mute communities to communicate through hand gestures & body movements that rely on visual-spatial patterns known as sign languages. Sign languages, which rely on visual-spatial patterns of hand gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Rajat Singhal , Jatin Gupta , Akhil Sharma , Anushka Gupta , Navya Sharma

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

Sign language translation, especially in gloss-free paradigm, is confronting a dilemma of impracticality and unsustainability due to growing resource-intensive methodologies. Contemporary state-of-the-arts (SOTAs) have significantly hinged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Eta Yang

As the main means of communication for deaf people, sign language has a special grammatical order, so it is meaningful and valuable to develop a real-time translation system for sign language. In the research process, we added a TSM module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shengzhuo Wei , Yan Lan

Sign language discourse is an essential mode of daily communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing people. However, research on Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) faces notable limitations, primarily due to the lack of datasets. Recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Husne Ara Rubaiyeat , Hasan Mahmud , Ahsan Habib , Md. Kamrul Hasan