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most citedSignBERT+: Hand-model-aware Self-supervised Pre-training for Sign Language Understanding

137 citations · 145 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CV2025

SLRTP2025 Sign Language Production Challenge: Methodology, Results, and Future Work

Harry Walsh, Ed Fish, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan +19

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the task of generating sign language video from spoken language inputs. The field has seen a range of innovations over the last few years, with th…

cs.CV2025

DocR1: Evidence Page-Guided GRPO for Multi-Page Document Understanding

Junyu Xiong, Yonghui Wang, Weichao Zhao +4

Understanding multi-page documents poses a significant challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as it requires fine-grained visual comprehension and multi-hop reason…

cs.CV2025

Uni-Sign: Toward Unified Sign Language Understanding at Scale

Zecheng Li, Wengang Zhou, Weichao Zhao +3

Sign language pre-training has gained increasing attention for its ability to enhance performance across various sign language understanding (SLU) tasks. However, existing methods…

cs.CV2024

Scaling up Multimodal Pre-training for Sign Language Understanding

Wengang Zhou, Weichao Zhao, Hezhen Hu +2

Sign language serves as the primary meaning of communication for the deaf-mute community. Different from spoken language, it commonly conveys information by the collaboration of ma…

cs.CV2024

Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Spatial-Temporal Consistency for Sign Language Recognition

Weichao Zhao, Wengang Zhou, Hezhen Hu +2

Recently, there have been efforts to improve the performance in sign language recognition by designing self-supervised learning methods. However, these methods capture limited info…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

TabPedia: Towards Comprehensive Visual Table Understanding with Concept Synergy

Weichao Zhao, Hao Feng, Qi Liu +9

Tables contain factual and quantitative data accompanied by various structures and contents that pose challenges for machine comprehension. Previous methods generally design task-s…

cs.CV2024

MASA: Motion-aware Masked Autoencoder with Semantic Alignment for Sign Language Recognition

Weichao Zhao, Hezhen Hu, Wengang Zhou +3

Sign language recognition (SLR) has long been plagued by insufficient model representation capabilities. Although current pre-training approaches have alleviated this dilemma to so…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Exploiting Spatial-Temporal Context for Interacting Hand Reconstruction on Monocular RGB Video

Weichao Zhao, Hezhen Hu, Wengang Zhou +2

Reconstructing interacting hands from monocular RGB data is a challenging task, as it involves many interfering factors, e.g. self- and mutual occlusion and similar textures. Previ…

cs.CV2023★ 137 cited

SignBERT+: Hand-model-aware Self-supervised Pre-training for Sign Language Understanding

Hezhen Hu, Weichao Zhao, Wengang Zhou +1

Hand gesture serves as a crucial role during the expression of sign language. Current deep learning based methods for sign language understanding (SLU) are prone to over-fitting du…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

BEST: BERT Pre-Training for Sign Language Recognition with Coupling Tokenization

Weichao Zhao, Hezhen Hu, Wengang Zhou +2

In this work, we are dedicated to leveraging the BERT pre-training success and modeling the domain-specific statistics to fertilize the sign language recognition~(SLR) model. Consi…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

SignBERT: Pre-Training of Hand-Model-Aware Representation for Sign Language Recognition

Hezhen Hu, Weichao Zhao, Wengang Zhou +2

Hand gesture serves as a critical role in sign language. Current deep-learning-based sign language recognition (SLR) methods may suffer insufficient interpretability and overfittin…