Generative Sign-description Prompts with Multi-positive Contrastive Learning for Sign Language Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02304v2
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:46:21 GMT
• Title: Generative Sign-description Prompts with Multi-positive Contrastive Learning for Sign Language Recognition
• Authors: Siyu Liang, Yunan Li, Wentian Xin, Huizhou Chen, Xujie Liu, Kang Liu, Qiguang Miao,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Generative Sign-description Prompts Multi-positive Contrastive learning (GSP-MC) method to produce precise multipart descriptions.<n>The GSP-MC method also employs a dual-encoder architecture to bidirectionally align hierarchical skeleton features with multiple text descriptions.<n> Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance against existing methods on the Chinese SLR500 (reaching 97.1%) and Turkish AUTSL datasets (97.07% accuracy)
• Score: 9.044039469025009
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sign language recognition (SLR) faces fundamental challenges in creating accurate annotations due to the inherent complexity of simultaneous manual and non-manual signals. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to integrate generative large language models (LLMs) into SLR tasks. We propose a novel Generative Sign-description Prompts Multi-positive Contrastive learning (GSP-MC) method that leverages retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with domain-specific LLMs, incorporating multi-step prompt engineering and expert-validated sign language corpora to produce precise multipart descriptions. The GSP-MC method also employs a dual-encoder architecture to bidirectionally align hierarchical skeleton features with multiple text descriptions (global, synonym, and part level) through probabilistic matching. Our approach combines global and part-level losses, optimizing KL divergence to ensure robust alignment across all relevant text-skeleton pairs while capturing both sign-level semantics and detailed part dynamics. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance against existing methods on the Chinese SLR500 (reaching 97.1%) and Turkish AUTSL datasets (97.07% accuracy). The method's cross-lingual effectiveness highlight its potential for developing inclusive communication technologies.

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