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Hands-On: Segmenting Individual Signs from Continuous Sequences

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Author

JianHe Low, Harry Walsh, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden

Outline

This paper addresses the problem of continuous sign language segmentation, a critical challenge in sign language translation and data annotation. We propose a transformer-based architecture that models temporal dynamics and defines frame segmentation as a sequence labeling problem using the Begin-In-Out (BIO) tagging method. We leverage HaMeR hand features and complement them with 3D angles. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on the DGS corpus, and the proposed features outperform existing benchmarks on the BSL corpus.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Achieving state-of-the-art performance in sign language segmentation using a transformer-based architecture.
A novel feature extraction method combining HaMeR hand features and 3D angles is presented.
Excellent performance validation on DGS corpus and BSL corpus.
Limitations:
Only performance evaluations for specific sign language corpora (DGS, BSL) are presented, requiring further research on generalizability.
Lack of analysis of the computational cost and efficiency of the proposed model.
Scalability verification is needed for various sign languages and datasets.
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