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:2608. 06407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Sign Language Recognition for under-represented languages remains a largely unsolved problem.
By Lucia Yen Wanchi, Samuel Johnny, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Emmanuel Aaron, Moise Busogi
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: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...
By Finnur \'Ag\'ust Ingimundarson, Gu{\dh}n\'y Bj\"ork {\TH}orvaldsd\'ottir, Mathias M\"uller, Sarah Ebling
SignSeek is a new method for learning transferable sign representations that enables efficient retrieval of signs from dictionaries using only a query video. It employs contrastive learning with saliency‑guided articulator masking, aligning same‑gloss signs across signers while focusing on the single most critical articulator per sign. Trained on 266K samples from multiple sign languages, SignSeek achieves state‑of‑the‑art cross‑corpus retrieval performance and zero‑shot generalisation to unseen British Sign Language, also improving isolated sign recognition and subtitle alignment.
By Sobhan Asasi, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden
arXiv:2607. 13164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language is a primary communication channel for millions of Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, yet text-to-signer video generation remains costly because video diffusion models are expensive to train and evaluate.
By Ruize Xia