4 papers
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…
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…
Giving a Hand to Diffusion Models: a Two-Stage Approach to Improving Conditional Human Image Generation
Anton Pelykh, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden
Recent years have seen significant progress in human image generation, particularly with the advancements in diffusion models. However, existing diffusion methods encounter challen…