5 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…
VALLR: Visual ASR Language Model for Lip Reading
Marshall Thomas, Edward Fish, Richard Bowden
Lip Reading, or Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (V-ASR), is a complex task requiring the interpretation of spoken language exclusively from visual cues, primarily lip movements…
SignBind-LLM: Multi-Stage Modality Fusion for Sign Language Translation
Marshall Thomas, Edward Fish, Richard Bowden
Despite progress in gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT), traditional single modality end-to-end approaches consistently fail on two critical components of natural signing: t…
Geo-Sign: Hyperbolic Contrastive Regularisation for Geometrically Aware Sign Language Translation
Edward Fish, Richard Bowden
Recent progress in Sign Language Translation (SLT) has focussed primarily on improving the representational capacity of large language models to incorporate Sign Language features.…
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…