Sign Language Recognition

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

30 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 95 papers with code (297 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose from Single RGB Images
  3 May 2017 8 repositories listed
  Low-cost consumer depth cameras and deep learning have enabled reasonable 3D hand pose estimation from single depth images.
• BlazePose: On-device Real-time Body Pose tracking
  17 Jun 2020 7 repositories listed
  We present BlazePose, a lightweight convolutional neural network architecture for human pose estimation that is tailored for real-time inference on mobile devices.
• A Simple Multi-Modality Transfer Learning Baseline for Sign Language Translation
  8 Mar 2022 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 10 samples · 5 unverified · 9 pointer-only (licence)
  Concretely, we pretrain the sign-to-gloss visual network on the general domain of human actions and the within-domain of a sign-to-gloss dataset, and pretrain the gloss-to-text translation network on the general domain…
• Continuous Sign Language Recognition with Correlation Network
  6 Mar 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  Visualizations demonstrate the effects of CorrNet on emphasizing human body trajectories across adjacent frames.
• Skeleton Aware Multi-modal Sign Language Recognition
  16 Mar 2021 3 repositories listed
  Sign language is commonly used by deaf or speech impaired people to communicate but requires significant effort to master.
• Word-level Deep Sign Language Recognition from Video: A New Large-scale Dataset and Methods Comparison
  24 Oct 2019 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 7 samples · 7 unverified
  Based on this new large-scale dataset, we are able to experiment with several deep learning methods for word-level sign recognition and evaluate their performances in large scale scenarios.
• Improving Sign Recognition with Phonology
  11 Feb 2023 2 repositories listed
  We use insights from research on American Sign Language (ASL) phonology to train models for isolated sign language recognition (ISLR), a step towards automatic sign language understanding.
• Self-Emphasizing Network for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
  30 Nov 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  To relieve this problem, we propose a self-emphasizing network (SEN) to emphasize informative spatial regions in a self-motivated way, with few extra computations and without additional expensive supervision.
• Sign Language Recognition via Skeleton-Aware Multi-Model Ensemble
  12 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed
  Current Sign Language Recognition (SLR) methods usually extract features via deep neural networks and suffer overfitting due to limited and noisy data.
• Visual Alignment Constraint for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
  6 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Specifically, the proposed VAC comprises two auxiliary losses: one focuses on visual features only, and the other enforces prediction alignment between the feature extractor and the alignment module.
• Context Matters: Self-Attention for Sign Language Recognition
  12 Jan 2021 2 repositories listed
  For that reason, we apply attention to synchronize and help capture entangled dependencies between the different sign language components.
• KArSL: Arabic Sign Language Database
  1 Jan 2021 2 repositories listed
  The availability of a comprehensive benchmarking database for ArSL is one of the challenges of the automatic recognition of Arabic Sign language.
• TSPNet: Hierarchical Feature Learning via Temporal Semantic Pyramid for Sign Language Translation
  12 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 6 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Sign language translation (SLT) aims to interpret sign video sequences into text-based natural language sentences.
• Sign Language Transformers: Joint End-to-end Sign Language Recognition and Translation
  30 Mar 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 7 samples · 6 unverified
  We report state-of-the-art sign language recognition and translation results achieved by our Sign Language Transformers.
• Fingerspelling recognition in the wild with iterative visual attention
  28 Aug 2019 2 repositories listed
  In this paper we focus on recognition of fingerspelling sequences in American Sign Language (ASL) videos collected in the wild, mainly from YouTube and Deaf social media.
• SubUNets: End-To-End Hand Shape and Continuous Sign Language Recognition
  1 Oct 2017 2 repositories listed
  We propose a novel deep learning approach to solve simultaneous alignment and recognition problems (referred to as "Sequence-to-sequence" learning).
• Hierarchical Sub-action Tree for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
  26 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Specifically, we construct an HST for textual information representation, aligning visual and textual modalities step-by-step and benefiting from the tree structure to reduce computational complexity.
• SignBart -- New approach with the skeleton sequence for Isolated Sign language Recognition
  18 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  This study offers a reliable and effective approach for sign language recognition, with strong potential for enhancing accessibility tools for the deaf and hard of hearing.
• SLRNet: A Real-Time LSTM-Based Sign Language Recognition System
  11 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Sign Language Recognition (SLR) plays a crucial role in bridging the communication gap between the hearing-impaired community and society.
• Transfer Learning from Visual Speech Recognition to Mouthing Recognition in German Sign Language
  20 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Sign Language Recognition (SLR) systems primarily focus on manual gestures, but non-manual features such as mouth movements, specifically mouthing, provide valuable linguistic information.
• HandReader: Advanced Techniques for Efficient Fingerspelling Recognition
  15 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Moreover, the models demonstrate high performance on the first open dataset for Russian fingerspelling, Znaki, presented in this paper.
• CLIP-SLA: Parameter-Efficient CLIP Adaptation for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
  2 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  We introduce two variants, SLA-Adapter and SLA-LoRA, which integrate PEFT modules into the CLIP visual encoder, enabling fine-tuning with minimal trainable parameters.
• Siformer: Feature-isolated Transformer for Efficient Skeleton-based Sign Language Recognition
  26 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  For LSA64, we achieve a top-1 accuracy of 99.
• Swin-MSTP: Swin transformer with multi-scale temporal perception for continuous sign language recognition
  7 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  To address these issues, we present the Swin multiscale temporal perception (Swin-MSTP) framework, in which the Swin Transformer is utilized as the spatial feature extractor, capable of capturing fine spatial details…
• Exploiting Ensemble Learning for Cross-View Isolated Sign Language Recognition
  4 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present our solution to the Cross-View Isolated Sign Language Recognition (CV-ISLR) challenge held at WWW 2025.
• Uni-Sign: Toward Unified Sign Language Understanding at Scale
  25 Jan 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 14 of 15 samples · 1 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  Sign language pre-training has gained increasing attention for its ability to enhance performance across various sign language understanding (SLU) tasks.
• EMPATH: MediaPipe-Aided Ensemble Learning with Attention-Based Transformers for Accurate Recognition of Bangla Word-Level Sign Language
  4 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  This diverse training scheme establishes superior accuracy benchmarks: achieving an impressive 100% on INCLUDE-50, 94.
• AzSLD: Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset for Fingerspelling, Word, and Sentence Translation with Baseline Software
  19 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  We present a comprehensive Azerbaijani Sign Language Dataset (AzSLD) collected from diverse sign language users and linguistic parameters to facilitate advancements in sign recognition and translation systems and…
• Bukva: Russian Sign Language Alphabet
  11 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper investigates the recognition of the Russian fingerspelling alphabet, also known as the Russian Sign Language (RSL) dactyl.
• A Chinese Continuous Sign Language Dataset Based on Complex Environments
  18 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  The current bottleneck in continuous sign language recognition (CSLR) research lies in the fact that most publicly available datasets are limited to laboratory environments or television program recordings, resulting in…

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