Dual-view Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion with CNN-Transformer Hybrid Network for Chinese Isolated Sign Language Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06966v1
• Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:04:29 GMT
• Title: Dual-view Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion with CNN-Transformer Hybrid Network for Chinese Isolated Sign Language Recognition
• Authors: Siyuan Jing, Guangxue Wang, Haoyang Zhai, Qin Tao, Jun Yang, Bing Wang, Peng Jin,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a dual-view sign language dataset for isolated sign language recognition named NationalCSL-DP.<n>The dataset consists of 134140 sign videos recorded by ten signers with respect to two vertical views.<n>A CNN transformer network is also proposed as a strong baseline and an extremely simple but effective fusion strategy for prediction.
• Score: 7.212104558068557
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Due to the emergence of many sign language datasets, isolated sign language recognition (ISLR) has made significant progress in recent years. In addition, the development of various advanced deep neural networks is another reason for this breakthrough. However, challenges remain in applying the technique in the real world. First, existing sign language datasets do not cover the whole sign vocabulary. Second, most of the sign language datasets provide only single view RGB videos, which makes it difficult to handle hand occlusions when performing ISLR. To fill this gap, this paper presents a dual-view sign language dataset for ISLR named NationalCSL-DP, which fully covers the Chinese national sign language vocabulary. The dataset consists of 134140 sign videos recorded by ten signers with respect to two vertical views, namely, the front side and the left side. Furthermore, a CNN transformer network is also proposed as a strong baseline and an extremely simple but effective fusion strategy for prediction. Extensive experiments were conducted to prove the effectiveness of the datasets as well as the baseline. The results show that the proposed fusion strategy can significantly increase the performance of the ISLR, but it is not easy for the sequence-to-sequence model, regardless of whether the early-fusion or late-fusion strategy is applied, to learn the complementary features from the sign videos of two vertical views.

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