SignVTCL: Multi-Modal Continuous Sign Language Recognition Enhanced by Visual-Textual Contrastive Learning

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Main Authors: Chen, Hao, Wang, Jiaze, Guo, Ziyu, Li, Jinpeng, Zhou, Donghao, Wu, Bian, Guan, Chenyong, Chen, Guangyong, Heng, Pheng-Ann
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author Chen, Hao
Wang, Jiaze
Guo, Ziyu
Li, Jinpeng
Zhou, Donghao
Wu, Bian
Guan, Chenyong
Chen, Guangyong
Heng, Pheng-Ann
author_facet Chen, Hao
Wang, Jiaze
Guo, Ziyu
Li, Jinpeng
Zhou, Donghao
Wu, Bian
Guan, Chenyong
Chen, Guangyong
Heng, Pheng-Ann
contents Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the corresponding gloss within a video segment. Recent studies indicate that the main bottleneck in SLR is the insufficient training caused by the limited availability of large-scale datasets. To address this challenge, we present SignVTCL, a multi-modal continuous sign language recognition framework enhanced by visual-textual contrastive learning, which leverages the full potential of multi-modal data and the generalization ability of language model. SignVTCL integrates multi-modal data (video, keypoints, and optical flow) simultaneously to train a unified visual backbone, thereby yielding more robust visual representations. Furthermore, SignVTCL contains a visual-textual alignment approach incorporating gloss-level and sentence-level alignment to ensure precise correspondence between visual features and glosses at the level of individual glosses and sentence. Experimental results conducted on three datasets, Phoenix-2014, Phoenix-2014T, and CSL-Daily, demonstrate that SignVTCL achieves state-of-the-art results compared with previous methods.
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spellingShingle SignVTCL: Multi-Modal Continuous Sign Language Recognition Enhanced by Visual-Textual Contrastive Learning
Chen, Hao
Wang, Jiaze
Guo, Ziyu
Li, Jinpeng
Zhou, Donghao
Wu, Bian
Guan, Chenyong
Chen, Guangyong
Heng, Pheng-Ann
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Sign language recognition (SLR) plays a vital role in facilitating communication for the hearing-impaired community. SLR is a weakly supervised task where entire videos are annotated with glosses, making it challenging to identify the corresponding gloss within a video segment. Recent studies indicate that the main bottleneck in SLR is the insufficient training caused by the limited availability of large-scale datasets. To address this challenge, we present SignVTCL, a multi-modal continuous sign language recognition framework enhanced by visual-textual contrastive learning, which leverages the full potential of multi-modal data and the generalization ability of language model. SignVTCL integrates multi-modal data (video, keypoints, and optical flow) simultaneously to train a unified visual backbone, thereby yielding more robust visual representations. Furthermore, SignVTCL contains a visual-textual alignment approach incorporating gloss-level and sentence-level alignment to ensure precise correspondence between visual features and glosses at the level of individual glosses and sentence. Experimental results conducted on three datasets, Phoenix-2014, Phoenix-2014T, and CSL-Daily, demonstrate that SignVTCL achieves state-of-the-art results compared with previous methods.
title SignVTCL: Multi-Modal Continuous Sign Language Recognition Enhanced by Visual-Textual Contrastive Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11847