The paper introduces BdSLIG, the first Bengali Sign Language Instruction Generation dataset, aimed at evaluating Vision Language Models on under-resourced SLIG tasks and long-tail visual concepts. It proposes Sign Parameter-Infused (SPI) prompting, which embeds standard sign parameters such as hand shape, motion, and orientation into textual prompts to improve zero-shot performance and produce more structured, reproducible instructions. The work seeks to promote inclusivity and advance sign language learning systems for under-resourced communities.
By Md Tariquzzaman, Md Farhan Ishmam, Saiyma Sittul Muna, Md Kamrul Hasan, Hasan Mahmud
arXiv:2606. 19352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign languages are expressive visual languages used by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) communities.
By Yiming Ni, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Jiayu Li, Wei Cheng
arXiv:2606. 26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language communication systems, that integrate emotional expression remain underexplored, particularly for low-resource languages.
By Jatin Bhusal, Salma Tamang
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.
By Alyssa Chan, Taein Kwon, Andrew Zisserman
SignBind-LLM introduces a modular framework for sign language translation that separates continuous signing, fingerspelling, and lipreading into dedicated expert streams. Each expert is pre‑trained independently on about two million pseudo‑gloss sequences, eliminating the need for manual gloss annotation. A lightweight transformer fuses the expert outputs, and a pre‑trained language model converts the fused pseudo‑glosses into fluent English, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on multiple benchmarks with lower training cost.
By Marshall Thomas, Edward Fish, Richard Bowden
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...
By Marcel Granero-Moya, Carolina del Corral Farrar\'os, Gloria Haro, Coloma Ballester, Ricardo Marques
arXiv:2606. 08056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language models are predominantly trained with gloss-sequence or text supervision, thereby under-modeling non-lexical and productive constructions.
By Oline Ranum, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden
The paper introduces the Sequential Spatio-Temporal Attention Network (SSTAN), a Transformer-based architecture that replaces traditional Graph Convolutional Networks for sign language recognition. SSTAN uses a hierarchical, stacked design with Spatial Multi-Head Attention to model joint relationships within frames and Temporal Multi-Head Attention to capture long-range dependencies across frames, eliminating the need for predefined skeletal graphs. Experiments on large-scale datasets (WLASL, JSL, KSL) show that SSTAN, trained from scratch, achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance in fingerspelling categories and outperforms other skeleton‑only methods on WLASL, highlighting its data efficiency and ability to learn complex spatio‑temporal patterns.
By Koki Hirooka, Abu Saleh Musa Miah, Tatsuya Murakami, Md. Al Mehedi Hasan, Yong Seok Hwang, Jungpil Shin
arXiv:2608. 03444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language recognition (SLR) enhances communication between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals.
By Nitin Kumar Singh, Arie Rachmad Syulistyo, Yuichiro Tanaka, Hakaru Tamukoh
arXiv:2608. 09045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in sign language (SL) research have shown a trend toward unifying multiple sign language understanding (SLU) subtasks, such as isolated sign language recognition (ISLR), continuous sign language recognition (CSLR), and sign language translation (SLT), within a single framework, leading to substantial progress.
By Xiao Liu, Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin, Jiaxin Yin, Bowen Guo, Yaqi Sun, Zhiwei Jiang, Lei Xie
arXiv:2608. 10588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: Fine-grained handshape recognition supports computational sign-language transcription, recognition, and translation, but broad, phonetically defined visual inventories with signer-aware evaluation remain limited.
By Ushnish Sarkar, Suvajit Patra, Bhaswar Chattopadhyay, Pranab Singha Roy, Tapas Samanta
arXiv:2608. 16804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign language serves as a vital means of communication for individuals with hearing impairments, yet recognition resources for the over 100 distinct sign languages are severely lacking.
By Keren Artiaga (Victor), Yang Li (Victor), Ercan Engin Kuruoglu (Victor), Wai Kin (Victor), Chan