Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
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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.
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).
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...
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.
arXiv:2606. 26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language communication systems, that integrate emotional expression remain underexplored, particularly for low-resource languages.