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Machine Translation for Sign Languages
Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Anton Pelykh, Edward Fish +7
Sign language machine translation has progressed substantially over the past decade, evolving from isolated sign recognition to end-to-end translation systems. Advances in pose est…
SignRefine: Adapting Foundational Video Models for Sign Language Generation
Anton Pelykh, Edward Fish, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan +1
Sign language video generation demands precise hand and facial articulation, yet modern video diffusion models, trained predominantly on spoken-language video, produce artifacts th…
Beyond BLEU: A Case for Redefining Sign Language Translation Benchmarks
Oline Ranum, Edward Fish, Simon Hadfield +1
BLEU-4 is the standard metric for evaluating sign language translation (SLT), but spoken-language metrics may not adequately reflect sign language proficiency. The multimodal, low-…
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…
What's the Point? Spatial Grammar & Index Resolution for Sign Language Processing
Oline Ranum, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden
Sign language models are predominantly trained with gloss-sequence or text supervision, thereby under-modeling non-lexical and productive constructions. One comparatively tractable…
SignAgent: Agentic LLMs for Linguistically-Grounded Sign Language Annotation and Dataset Curation
Oliver Cory, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden
This paper introduces SignAgent, a novel agentic framework that utilises Large Language Models (LLMs) for scalable, linguistically-grounded Sign Language (SL) annotation and datase…
M3T: Discrete Multi-Modal Motion Tokens for Sign Language Production
Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig, Jianhe Low, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan +1
Sign language production requires more than hand motion generation. Non-manual features, including mouthings, eyebrow raises, gaze, and head movements, are grammatically obligatory…
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…
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…
Using Sign Language Production as Data Augmentation to enhance Sign Language Translation
Harry Walsh, Maksym Ivashechkin, Richard Bowden
Machine learning models fundamentally rely on large quantities of high-quality data. Collecting the necessary data for these models can be challenging due to cost, scarcity, and pr…
Diversity-Aware Sign Language Production through a Pose Encoding Variational Autoencoder
Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Richard Bowden
This paper addresses the problem of diversity-aware sign language production, where we want to give an image (or sequence) of a signer and produce another image with the same pose…
Sign Stitching: A Novel Approach to Sign Language Production
Harry Walsh, Ben Saunders, Richard Bowden
Sign Language Production (SLP) is a challenging task, given the limited resources available and the inherent diversity within sign data. As a result, previous works have suffered f…
Select and Reorder: A Novel Approach for Neural Sign Language Production
Harry Walsh, Ben Saunders, Richard Bowden
Sign languages, often categorised as low-resource languages, face significant challenges in achieving accurate translation due to the scarcity of parallel annotated datasets. This…
A Data-Driven Representation for Sign Language Production
Harry Walsh, Abolfazl Ravanshad, Mariam Rahmani +1
Phonetic representations are used when recording spoken languages, but no equivalent exists for recording signed languages. As a result, linguists have proposed several annotation…