Albanie, S;
Varol, G;
Momeni, L;
Afouras, T;
Chung, JS;
Fox, N;
Zisserman, A;
(2020)
BSL-1K: Scaling Up Co-articulated Sign Language Recognition Using Mouthing Cues.
In: Vedaldi, A and Bischof, H and Brox, T and Frahm, JM, (eds.)
Computer Vision – ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23–28, 2020, Proceedings, Part XI.
(pp. pp. 35-53).
Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Recent progress in fine-grained gesture and action classification, and machine translation, point to the possibility of automated sign language recognition becoming a reality. A key stumbling block in making progress towards this goal is a lack of appropriate training data, stemming from the high complexity of sign annotation and a limited supply of qualified annotators. In this work, we introduce a new scalable approach to data collection for sign recognition in continuous videos. We make use of weakly-aligned subtitles for broadcast footage together with a keyword spotting method to automatically localise sign-instances for a vocabulary of 1,000 signs in 1,000 h of video. We make the following contributions: (1) We show how to use mouthing cues from signers to obtain high-quality annotations from video data—the result is the BSL-1K dataset, a collection of British Sign Language (BSL) signs of unprecedented scale; (2) We show that we can use BSL-1K to train strong sign recognition models for co-articulated signs in BSL and that these models additionally form excellent pretraining for other sign languages and benchmarks—we exceed the state of the art on both the MSASL and WLASL benchmarks. Finally, (3) we propose new large-scale evaluation sets for the tasks of sign recognition and sign spotting and provide baselines which we hope will serve to stimulate research in this area.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | BSL-1K: Scaling Up Co-articulated Sign Language Recognition Using Mouthing Cues |
| Event: | ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference on Computer Vision |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-030-58620-1 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-58621-8_3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58621-8_3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Sign language recognition, Visual keyword spotting |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120166 |
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