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Main Authors: Artiaga, Keren, Lynch, Conor, Afli, Haithem, Hasanuzzaman, Mohammed
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03316
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  • Most sign language recognition research relies on Transfer Learning (TL) from vision-based datasets such as ImageNet. Some extend this to alternatively available language datasets, often focusing on signs with cross-linguistic similarities. This body of work examines the necessity of these likenesses on effective knowledge transfer by comparing TL performance between iconic signs of two different sign language pairs: Chinese to Arabic and Greek to Flemish. Google Mediapipe was utilised as an input feature extractor, enabling spatial information of these signs to be processed with a Multilayer Perceptron architecture and the temporal information with a Gated Recurrent Unit. Experimental results showed a 7.02% improvement for Arabic and 1.07% for Flemish when conducting iconic TL from Chinese and Greek respectively.