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TCNet: Continuous Sign Language Recognition from Trajectories and Correlated Regions

18 Mar 2024arXiv:2403.11818archive 2025-07-28

Hui Lu, Albert Ali Salah, Ronald Poppe

A key challenge in continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) is to efficiently capture long-range spatial interactions over time from the video input. To address this challenge, we propose TCNet, a hybrid network that effectively models spatio-temporal information from Trajectories and Correlated regions. TCNet's trajectory module transforms frames into aligned trajectories composed of continuous visual tokens. In addition, for a query token, self-attention is learned along the trajectory. As such, our network can also focus on fine-grained spatio-temporal patterns, such as finger movements, of a specific region in motion. TCNet's correlation module uses a novel dynamic attention mechanism that filters out irrelevant frame regions. Additionally, it assigns dynamic key-value tokens from correlated regions to each query. Both innovations significantly reduce the computation cost and memory. We perform experiments on four large-scale datasets: PHOENIX14, PHOENIX14-T, CSL, and CSL-Daily, respectively. Our results demonstrate that TCNet consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance. For example, we improve over the previous state-of-the-art by 1.5% and 1.0% word error rate on PHOENIX14 and PHOENIX14-T, respectively.

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Sign Language Recognition

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Sign Language Recognition CSL-Daily TCNet Word Error Rate (WER) 29.3 #8 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Sign Language Recognition RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather 2014 TCNet Word Error Rate (WER) 18.9 #5 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Sign Language Recognition RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather 2014 T TCNet Word Error Rate (WER) 19.4 #3 of 15 Archive leaderboard report

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