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5 papers

cs.CV2026

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…

cs.CV2026

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CV2025

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.…

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…