The paper introduces a two-stage framework for detecting cartographic signs in historical maps and generating interpretable embeddings that capture both semantics and stylistic variations. It presents CaSiDD, an open benchmark dataset covering multiple sign categories and diverse cartographic styles, and demonstrates the effectiveness of YOLOv10-X for automated sign detection. The authors also develop a method based on an adapted RADIOv4 backbone to encode sign form and semantics while suppressing confounding factors, providing a foundation for scalable evidence extraction in cartographic culture and geohistorical research.
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...
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.
arXiv:2606. 19352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign languages are expressive visual languages used by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) communities.
arXiv:2608. 06407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Sign Language Recognition for under-represented languages remains a largely unsolved problem.
Learning to read cuneiform tablets is an extremely demanding task; consequently, of the roughly half million excavated tablets, only a small fraction has been analysed by Assyriologists. Computer vision offers a promising avenue for decipherment but requires large, densely annotated datasets.
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:2607. 04147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated fine-grained perception of calligraphy styles--a task vital to cultural heritage preservation--remains a critical challenge for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), largely constrained by existing datasets that suffer from modal mixture and flattened labels.
arXiv:2204. 02803v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sign language recognition from monocular video or 2D pose sequences is challenging, both because 3D information must be inferred from 2D observations and because the signal is inherently spatiotemporal.
arXiv:2608. 20218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) are geospatial vector datasets used in maritime navigation systems that represent hydrographic and navigational information such as depths, navigational aids, traffic schemes, and hazards.
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:2602.02154v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior to modern Earth observation technologies, historical maps provide a unique record of long-term urban transformation and offer a lens on the e...
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.