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Fingerspelling PoseNet: Enhancing Fingerspelling Translation with Pose-Based Transformer Models
Pooya Fayyazsanavi, Negar Nejatishahidin, Jana Kosecka
We address the task of American Sign Language fingerspelling translation using videos in the wild. We exploit advances in more accurate hand pose estimation and propose a novel architecture that leverages the transformer based encoder-decoder model enabling seamless contextual word translation. The translation model is augmented by a novel loss term that accurately predicts the length of the finger-spelled word, benefiting both training and inference. We also propose a novel two-stage inference approach that re-ranks the hypotheses using the language model capabilities of the decoder. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art models on ChicagoFSWild and ChicagoFSWild+ achieving more than 10% relative improvement in performance. Our findings highlight the effectiveness of our approach and its potential to advance fingerspelling recognition in sign language translation. Code is also available at https://github.com/pooyafayyaz/Fingerspelling-PoseNet.
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