4 papers
BackTranslation2.0 -- A Linguistically Motivated Metric to Assess Sign Language Production
Oliver Cory, Maksym Ivashechkin, Karahan Sahin +6
Sign Languages (SLs) are the primary means of communication for millions of deaf individuals, yet existing evaluation metrics for generated SL remain simplistic and poorly aligned…
SignSparK: Efficient Multilingual Sign Language Production via Sparse Keyframe Learning
Jianhe Low, Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig, Maksym Ivashechkin +2
Sign Language Production (SLP) faces a fundamental trade-off: direct text-to-pose models suffer from regression-to-the-mean effects, while dictionary-retrieval methods produce disj…
SAGE: Segment-Aware Gloss-Free Encoding for Token-Efficient Sign Language Translation
JianHe Low, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden
Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) has advanced rapidly, achieving strong performances without relying on gloss annotations. However, these gains have often come with incre…
Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation: An Unbiased Evaluation of Progress in the Field
Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Jian He Low, Sobhan Asasi +1
Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the…