American Sign Language (ASL) recognition systems often struggle with accuracy due to similar gestures, poor image quality and inconsistent lighting. To address this, researchers developed a system ...

Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand ...

Bader Alsharif, the first author, demonstrates how the system spells out names and locations in real time using American Sign Language. For millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals around the ...

A pair of Myo gesture-control armbands and a computer or smartphone may make it faster and easier for the hearing impaired to communicate using sign language with those who don’t understand it. That’s ...

Bilingual dictionaries are usually a two-way street: you can look up a word in English and find, say, its Spanish equivalent, but you can also do the reverse. Sign-language dictionaries, however, ...

We are researching technologies to create computer graphic animations of sign language (“sign language CG”) based on Japanese texts to provide a means of guaranteeing information for people who use ...