Exploring Attention Mechanisms in Integration of Multi-Modal Information for Sign Language Recognition and Translation

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Autori principali: Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul, Swargo, Rasman Mubtasim, Adnan, Muhammad Abdullah
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author Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul
Swargo, Rasman Mubtasim
Adnan, Muhammad Abdullah
author_facet Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul
Swargo, Rasman Mubtasim
Adnan, Muhammad Abdullah
contents Understanding intricate and fast-paced movements of body parts is essential for the recognition and translation of sign language. The inclusion of additional information intended to identify and locate the moving body parts has been an interesting research topic recently. However, previous works on using multi-modal information raise concerns such as sub-optimal multi-modal feature merging method, or the model itself being too computationally heavy. In our work, we have addressed such issues and used a plugin module based on cross-attention to properly attend to each modality with another. Moreover, we utilized 2-stage training to remove the dependency of separate feature extractors for additional modalities in an end-to-end approach, which reduces the concern about computational complexity. Besides, our additional cross-attention plugin module is very lightweight which doesn't add significant computational overhead on top of the original baseline. We have evaluated the performance of our approaches on the RWTH-PHOENIX-2014 dataset for sign language recognition and the RWTH-PHOENIX-2014T dataset for the sign language translation task. Our approach reduced the WER by 0.9 on the recognition task and increased the BLEU-4 scores by 0.8 on the translation task.
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spellingShingle Exploring Attention Mechanisms in Integration of Multi-Modal Information for Sign Language Recognition and Translation
Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul
Swargo, Rasman Mubtasim
Adnan, Muhammad Abdullah
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Understanding intricate and fast-paced movements of body parts is essential for the recognition and translation of sign language. The inclusion of additional information intended to identify and locate the moving body parts has been an interesting research topic recently. However, previous works on using multi-modal information raise concerns such as sub-optimal multi-modal feature merging method, or the model itself being too computationally heavy. In our work, we have addressed such issues and used a plugin module based on cross-attention to properly attend to each modality with another. Moreover, we utilized 2-stage training to remove the dependency of separate feature extractors for additional modalities in an end-to-end approach, which reduces the concern about computational complexity. Besides, our additional cross-attention plugin module is very lightweight which doesn't add significant computational overhead on top of the original baseline. We have evaluated the performance of our approaches on the RWTH-PHOENIX-2014 dataset for sign language recognition and the RWTH-PHOENIX-2014T dataset for the sign language translation task. Our approach reduced the WER by 0.9 on the recognition task and increased the BLEU-4 scores by 0.8 on the translation task.
title Exploring Attention Mechanisms in Integration of Multi-Modal Information for Sign Language Recognition and Translation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01860