SMART is a new framework that jointly tackles continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) and spotting by leveraging a multimodal large language model (MLLM) to generate motion descriptions as auxiliary semantic cues. It performs stable video‑text alignment with small batch sizes and introduces a Multi‑Scale Temporal Adapter to capture temporal interactions during transformer encoding. The framework also incorporates CSFormer, a CSLR‑guided spotting module that injects recognition‑derived gloss evidence into a boundary‑aware spotting network, enabling mutual benefit between recognition and spotting tasks.
By Eunjee Choi, JungHoon Sung, Seongwhan Cho, Chu Xin, Younggeun Choi
Continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) aims to recognize gloss sequences from unsegmented sign videos under weak sequence-level supervision. However, existing methods rely on sentence-level gloss...
The paper introduces AttnSign, a vision‑language model that improves sign language translation by steering spatial‑temporal attention. It first supervises attention on sign‑relevant regions such as faces and hands in each frame, then uses an RL‑based motion‑cadence method to focus on keyframes. Experiments on How2Sign and OpenASL show AttnSign consistently outperforms existing methods.
By Meibo Hu, Guohao Sun, Annemarie D. Ross, Sheng Li, Zhiqiang Tao
arXiv:2606. 00987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong visual understanding and language-guided grounding abilities, yet their capacity for multi-temporal visual reasoning remains underexplored.
By Bingyu Li, Da Zhang, Tao Huo, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2606. 11925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language translation (SLT) converts sign language video into spoken language text and holds significant promise for improving accessibility and enabling communication between signing and non-signing communities.
By Zsolt Robotka, \'Ad\'am R\'ak, Jalal Al-Afandi, Andr\'as Horv\'ath, Gy\"orgy Cserey
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