Reviewing 25 years of continuous sign language recognition research: Advances, challenges, and prospects

S Alyami, H Luqman, M Hammoudeh - Information Processing & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sign language is a form of visual communication employing hand gestures, body
movements, and facial expressions. The growing prevalence of hearing impairment has …

Uncertainty-aware sign language video retrieval with probability distribution modeling

X Wu, H Li, Y Luo, X Cheng, X Zhuang, M Cao… - European Conference on …, 2025 - Springer
Sign language video retrieval plays a key role in facilitating information access for the deaf
community. Despite significant advances in video-text retrieval, the complexity and inherent …

Visual Alignment Pre-training for Sign Language Translation

P Jiao, Y Min, X Chen - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2025 - Springer
Abstract Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to translate sign videos into text sentences.
While gloss sequences, the written approximation of sign videos, provide informative …

A simple baseline for spoken language to sign language translation with 3d avatars

R Zuo, F Wei, Z Chen, B Mak, J Yang… - European Conference on …, 2025 - Springer
The objective of this paper is to develop a functional system for translating spoken
languages into sign languages, referred to as Spoken2Sign translation. The Spoken2Sign …

Improving continuous sign language recognition with consistency constraints and signer removal

R Zuo, B Mak - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Deep-learning-based continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) models typically consist
of a visual module, a sequential module, and an alignment module. However, the …

Towards Online Continuous Sign Language Recognition and Translation

R Zuo, F Wei, B Mak - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Research on continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) is essential to bridge the
communication gap between deaf and hearing individuals. Numerous previous studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Sign-to-Text Translation from Panamanian Sign Language to Spanish in Continuous Capture Mode with Deep Neural Networks

AA Teran-Quezada, V Lopez-Cabrera… - Big Data and Cognitive …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have provided great advances for the task of sign
language recognition (SLR). However, recurrent neural networks (RNN) in the form of long …

An Efficient Sign Language Translation Using Spatial Configuration and Motion Dynamics with LLMs

EJ Hwang, S Cho, J Lee, JC Park - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10593, 2024 - arxiv.org
Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) converts sign videos directly into spoken
language sentences without relying on glosses. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) …

A Tale of Two Languages: Large-Vocabulary Continuous Sign Language Recognition from Spoken Language Supervision

C Raude, KR Prajwal, L Momeni, H Bull… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

Signs as Tokens: An Autoregressive Multilingual Sign Language Generator

R Zuo, RA Potamias, E Ververas, J Deng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …