arXiv:2606. 19352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign languages are expressive visual languages used by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) communities.
arXiv:2610.00881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign language machine translation has progressed substantially over the past decade, evolving from isolated sign recognition to end-to-end translation...
The paper introduces FS23K, a large-scale British Sign Language fingerspelling dataset created through an iterative annotation framework. It also presents a recognition model that incorporates bi‑manual interactions and mouthing cues, achieving a halved character error rate compared to previous state‑of‑the‑art methods. These results underscore the dataset’s and model’s value for advancing sign language research and automated annotation pipelines.
arXiv:2609.25862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first experiments on isolated sign language recognition (ISLR) for Icelandic Sign Language (\'ITM). We use \'ITM SignWiki, a dataset der...
arXiv:2603. 29219v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sign language is the primary approach of communication for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community.
arXiv:2605. 01720v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing large-scale sign language resources typically provide supervision only at the level of raw video-text alignment and are often produced in laboratory settings.
arXiv:2608. 06407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Sign Language Recognition for under-represented languages remains a largely unsolved problem.
SignMatch introduces a prototype‑structured embedding space that learns to match dictionary sign videos with continuous sign language footage based solely on visual similarity of handshape and motion. By mapping isolated dictionary exemplars into this space, the method enables direct, embedding‑based sign matching and can generalise to unseen signs using only dictionary examples. Experiments on ASL‑Citizen, ChaLearn OSLWL, and BOBSL CSLR2 benchmarks show strong cross‑dataset, cross‑task, and cross‑language performance, outperforming prior approaches on American, British, and Spanish sign languages without benchmark‑specific supervision.
We present the first experiments on isolated sign language recognition (ISLR) for Icelandic Sign Language (ÍTM). We use ÍTM SignWiki, a dataset derived from a bilingual Icelandic--ÍTM online dictionar...
SignGPT is a unified, pose‑based framework that performs gloss‑free sign language translation (SLT) and generation (SLG) by integrating part‑aware hierarchical representations of body, hand, and facial motion into a shared language model. It uses asymmetric multi‑token prediction and progressive training for bidirectional modeling, and is evaluated on How2Sign (ASL) and Phoenix‑2014T (DGS) with benchmark comparisons, qualitative analyses, and component ablations. An exploratory study with 12 Deaf ASL signers demonstrates a sign‑to‑sign response pipeline, suggesting that unified modeling can support sign language conversation (SLC).
PHOSA introduces MVSign, the first multi‑view Chinese sign language dataset co‑designed with Deaf experts, featuring diverse gestures and rich annotations. The authors develop a hybrid fitting pipeline for accurate SMPL‑X annotation and propose a decoupled sign avatar representation that isolates body, head, and hand components, coupled with a motion‑aware sampling strategy to handle motion blur and balance gesture diversity. Experiments show high‑fidelity visual results on MVSign, especially in detailed hand and facial regions, and good generalization to in‑the‑wild monocular sign language videos.
arXiv:2609.18772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign language processing advances rapidly for high-resource languages such as American Sign Language (ASL), yet most of the world's sign languages lack...
PHOSA presents a photorealistic 3D sign avatar modeling framework that addresses the need for accurate communication with the Deaf community. The authors introduce MVSign, a multi‑view Chinese sign language dataset co‑designed with Deaf experts, and a hybrid fitting pipeline for precise SMPL‑X annotation. Their decoupled avatar representation and motion‑aware sampling achieve high‑fidelity visual results on MVSign and generalize to monocular sign language videos.