Improving signer-independence using pose estimation and transfer learning for sign language recognition

M Marais, D Brown, J Connan, A Boby - … Advanced Computing Conference, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Automated Sign Language Recognition (SLR) aims to bridge the communication
gap between the hearing and the hearing disabled. Computer vision and deep learning lie …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating signer-independent sign language recognition on the LSA64 dataset

M Marais, D Brown, J Connan, A Boby… - … Conference (SA TNAC …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Conversing with hearing disabled people is a significant challenge; however, computer
vision advancements have significantly improved this through automated sign language …

[PDF][PDF] Continuous Sign-Language Recognition using Transformers and Augmented Pose Estimation.

R Hinrichs, AJY Sitcheu, J Ostermann - ICPRAM, 2023 - scitepress.org
Sign language is used by deaf to communicate with other humans. It consists of not only
hand signs or gestures but encompasses also facial expressions and further body …

Desire: Deep signer-invariant representations for sign language recognition

PM Ferreira, D Pernes, A Rebelo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a key technology to help bridging the gap between deaf and hearing people, sign
language recognition (SLR) has become one of the most active research topics in the …

Spatiotemporal Convolutions and Video Vision Transformers for Signer-Independent Sign Language Recognition

M Marais, D Brown, J Connan… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sign language is a vital tool of communication for individuals who are deaf or hard of
hearing. Sign language recognition (SLR) technology can assist in bridging the …

Enhancing Signer-Independent Recognition of Isolated Sign Language through Advanced Deep Learning Techniques and Feature Fusion

A Akdag, OK Baykan - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sign Language Recognition (SLR) systems are crucial bridges facilitating communication
between deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals and the hearing world. Existing SLR …

Towards the extraction of robust sign embeddings for low resource sign language recognition

M De Coster, E Rushe, R Holmes, A Ventresque… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Isolated Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has mostly been applied on relatively large
datasets containing signs executed slowly and clearly by a limited group of signers. In real …

[PDF][PDF] Signer-independent sign language recognition with adversarial neural networks

PM Ferreira, D Pernes, A Rebelo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Sign Language Recognition (SLR) has become an appealing topic in modern societies
because such technology can ideally be used to bridge the gap between deaf and hearing …

Semantics constrained dictionary learning for signer-independent sign language recognition

F Yin, X Chai, Y Zhou, X Chen - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a sparse coding based framework is proposed for sign language recognition
(SLR), especially for the signer-independent case. To deal with the inter-signer variation, a …

Iterative reference driven metric learning for signer independent isolated sign language recognition

F Yin, X Chai, X Chen - Computer Vision–ECCV 2016: 14th European …, 2016 - Springer
Sign language recognition (SLR) is an interesting but difficult problem. One of the biggest
challenges comes from the complex inter-signer variations. To address this problem, the …