Paper ID: 2402.07255

American Sign Language Video to Text Translation

Parsheeta Roy, Ji-Eun Han, Srishti Chouhan, Bhaavanaa Thumu

Sign language to text is a crucial technology that can break down communication barriers for individuals with hearing difficulties. We replicate and try to improve on a recently published study. We evaluate models using BLEU and rBLEU metrics to ensure translation quality. During our ablation study, we found that the model's performance is significantly influenced by optimizers, activation functions, and label smoothing. Further research aims to refine visual feature capturing, enhance decoder utilization, and integrate pre-trained decoders for better translation outcomes. Our source code is available to facilitate replication of our results and encourage future research.

Submitted: Feb 11, 2024