Sign Language Translation

35 papers with code • 5 benchmarks • 13 datasets

Given a video containing sign language, the task is to predict the translation into (written) spoken language.

Image credit: How2Sign

Latest papers with no code

Toward American Sign Language Processing in the Real World: Data, Tasks, and Methods

no code yet • 23 Aug 2023

To address the problem of searching for fingerspelled keywords in raw sign language videos, we propose a novel method that jointly localizes and matches fingerspelling segments to text.

Is context all you need? Scaling Neural Sign Language Translation to Large Domains of Discourse

no code yet • 18 Aug 2023

Sign Language Translation (SLT) is a challenging task that aims to generate spoken language sentences from sign language videos, both of which have different grammar and word/gloss order.

A two-way translation system of Chinese sign language based on computer vision

no code yet • 3 Jun 2023

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.

SignBERT+: Hand-model-aware Self-supervised Pre-training for Sign Language Understanding

no code yet • 8 May 2023

In our framework, the hand pose is regarded as a visual token, which is derived from an off-the-shelf detector.

A Comparative Analysis of Techniques and Algorithms for Recognising Sign Language

no code yet • 5 May 2023

Sign language is a visual language that enhances communication between people and is frequently used as the primary form of communication by people with hearing loss.

SignNet: Single Channel Sign Generation using Metric Embedded Learning

no code yet • 6 Dec 2022

In the task of gloss to pose, SignNet performed as well as its state-of-the-art (SoTA) counterparts and outperformed them in the task of text to pose, by showing noteworthy enhancements in BLEU 1 - BLEU 4 scores (BLEU 1: 31->39; ~26% improvement and BLEU 4: 10. 43->11. 84; ~14\% improvement) when tested on the popular RWTH PHOENIX-Weather-2014T benchmark dataset

Considerations for meaningful sign language machine translation based on glosses

no code yet • 28 Nov 2022

Automatic sign language processing is gaining popularity in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research (Yin et al., 2021).

Leveraging Graph-based Cross-modal Information Fusion for Neural Sign Language Translation

no code yet • 1 Nov 2022

Therefore, we propose to introduce additional word-level semantic knowledge of sign language linguistics to assist in improving current end-to-end neural SLT models.

Clean Text and Full-Body Transformer: Microsoft's Submission to the WMT22 Shared Task on Sign Language Translation

no code yet • 24 Oct 2022

The BLEU score is further improved to 1. 08 on the dev set by applying features extracted from a lip reading model.

Changing the Representation: Examining Language Representation for Neural Sign Language Production

no code yet • SLTAT (LREC) 2022

We use language models such as BERT and Word2Vec to create better sentence level embeddings, and apply several tokenization techniques, demonstrating how these improve performance on the low resource translation task of Text to Gloss.