SL-SLR: Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Sign Language Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05188v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:38:19 GMT
• Title: SL-SLR: Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Sign Language Recognition
• Authors: Ariel Basso Madjoukeng, Jérôme Fink, Pierre Poitier, Edith Belise Kenmogne, Benoit Frenay,
• Abstract summary: Sign language recognition ( SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos.<n>In SLR, only certain parts provide information that is truly useful for its recognition.<n>This paper proposes a self-supervised learning framework designed to learn meaningful representations for SLR.
• Score: 0.5872014229110214
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sign language recognition (SLR) is a machine learning task aiming to identify signs in videos. Due to the scarcity of annotated data, unsupervised methods like contrastive learning have become promising in this field. They learn meaningful representations by pulling positive pairs (two augmented versions of the same instance) closer and pushing negative pairs (different from the positive pairs) apart. In SLR, in a sign video, only certain parts provide information that is truly useful for its recognition. Applying contrastive methods to SLR raises two issues: (i) contrastive learning methods treat all parts of a video in the same way, without taking into account the relevance of certain parts over others; (ii) shared movements between different signs make negative pairs highly similar, complicating sign discrimination. These issues lead to learning non-discriminative features for sign recognition and poor results in downstream tasks. In response, this paper proposes a self-supervised learning framework designed to learn meaningful representations for SLR. This framework consists of two key components designed to work together: (i) a new self-supervised approach with free-negative pairs; (ii) a new data augmentation technique. This approach shows a considerable gain in accuracy compared to several contrastive and self-supervised methods, across linear evaluation, semi-supervised learning, and transferability between sign languages.

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