Awesome Sign Language Processing

A curated list of sign language procesing (e.g., sign language recognition, sign language translation) and related area (e.g., speech translation, motion generation) resources. The old version can be found here.

• [Wiki] Sign Language
• [Wiki] Sign Language Recognition
• [Wiki] Gesture_recognition
• [Wiki] Sign Language Tranlsation
• [Resource] jinwchoi/awesome-action-recognition
• [Resource] xinghaochen/awesome-hand-pose-estimation
• [Resource] OpenHuman-ai/awesome-gesture_generation
• [Resource] zzw922cn/awesome-speech-recognition-speech-synthesis-papers

Contents

• Conference Paper
  • Sign Language Recognition
  • Sign Language Translation
  • Sign Language Production
  • Other Sign Language Topic
  • Co-speech Gesture Generation
  • Gesture Recognition
• Sign Language Workshop
• Dataset

Conference Paper

Sign Language Recognition

• [ICLR 2026] BANZ-FS: BANZSL FINGERSPELLING DATASET. [paper]
  Xin Shen, Yan Ke, Xinyu Wang, Xin Yu
• [EMNLP 2025] Logos as a Well-Tempered Pre-train for Sign Language Recognition. [paper]
  Ilya Ovodov, Petr Surovtsev, Karina Kvanchiani, Alexander Kapitanov, Alexander Nagaev
• [EMNLP Findings 2025] Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation. [paper]
  Keren Artiaga, Sabyasachi Kamila, Haithem Afli, Conor Lynch, Mohammed Hasanuzzaman
• [ICCV 2025] Cross-View Isolated Sign Language Recognition via View Synthesis and Feature Disentanglement. [paper]
  Xin Shen, Xinyu Wang, Lei Shen, Kaihao Zhang, Xin Yu
• [CVPR 2025] VSNet: Focusing on the Linguistic Characteristics of Sign Language. [paper]
  YuHao Li, Xinyue Chen, Hongkai Li, Xiaorong Pu, Peng Jin, Yazhou Ren
• [NeurIPS 2024] MM-WLAuslan: Multi-View Multi-Modal Word-Level Australian Sign Language Recognition Dataset. [paper]
  Xin Shen, Heming Du, Hongwei Sheng, Shuyun Wang, Hui Chen, Huiqiang Chen, Zhuojie Wu, Xiaobiao Du, Jiaying Ying, Ruihan Lu, Qingzheng Xu, Xin Yu
• [EMNLP 2024] SignCLIP: Connecting Text and Sign Language by Contrastive Learning. [paper]
  Zifan Jiang, Gerard Sant, Amit Moryossef, Mathias Müller, Rico Sennrich, Sarah Ebling
• [EMNLP 2024] Towards Online Continuous Sign Language Recognition and Translation. [paper]
  Ronglai Zuo, Fangyun Wei, Brian Mak
• [CVPR 2024] SignGraph: A Sign Sequence is Worth Graphs of Nodes. [paper] [code]
  Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin, Zhiwei Jiang, Hongkai Wen, Kang Xia, Lei Xie, Sanglu Lu
• [EMNLP Findings 2023] Handshape-Aware Sign Language Recognition: Extended Datasets and Exploration of Handshape-Inclusive Methods. [paper]
  Xuan Zhang, Kevin Duh
• Complete List of Sign Language Recognition

Sign Language Translation

• [ACL 2026] Think in Latent Thoughts: A New Paradigm for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Yiyang Jiang, Li Zhang, Xiao-Yong Wei, Li Qing
• [ACL 2026] Selective Contrastive Learning For Gloss Free Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Changhao Lai, Rui Zhao, Xuewen Zhong, Jinsong Su, Yidong Chen
• [CVPR 2026] Learning Effective Sign Features without Text for Gloss-free Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Shiwei Gan, Xiao Liu, Yafeng Yin, Nan Liu, Kuizhuang Liu, Desibieer Tuerdaken, Zhiwei Jiang, Lei Xie, Sanglu Lu, Hongkai Wen
• [CVPR 2026] BoostSLT: Boosting Sign Language Translation via a Plug-and-Play Diffusion-Based Semantic Enhancer. [paper]
  Changzhou Han, Wanlun Ma, XI TANG, Kun Hu, Sheng Wen, Yang Xiang
• [WACV 2026] Large Sign Language Models: Toward 3D American Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Sen Zhang, Xiaoxiao He, Di Liu, Zhaoyang Xia, Mingyu Zhao, Chaowei Tan, Vivian Li, Bo Liu, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Mubbasir Kapadia
• [NeurIPS 2025] MixSignGraph: A Sign Sequence is Worth Mixed Graphs of Nodes. [paper]
  Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin, Zhiwei Jiang, Lei Xie, Sanglu Lu, Hongkai Wen
• [EMNLP 2025] PoseStitch-SLT: Linguistically Inspired Pose-Stitching for End-to-End Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Abhinav Joshi, Vaibhav Sharma, Sanjeet Singh, Ashutosh Modi
• [WMT 2025] SONAR-SLT: Multilingual Sign Language Translation via Language-Agnostic Sentence Embedding Supervision. [paper]
  Yasser Hamidullah, Shakib Yazdani, Cennet Oguz, Josef Van Genabith, Cristina España-Bonet
• [NeurIPS 2025] Geo-Sign: Hyperbolic Contrastive Regularisation for Geometrically Aware Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Edward Fish, Richard Bowden
• [NeurIPS 2025] Bridging Sign and Spoken Languages: Pseudo Gloss Generation for Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Jianyuan Guo, Peike Li, Trevor Cohn
• [ICCV 2025] Leveraging the Power of MLLMs for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Jungeun Kim, Hyeongwoo Jeon, Jongseong Bae, Ha Young Kim
• [ACM MM 2025] Gloss Matters: Unlocking the Potential of Non-Autoregressive Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Zhihao Wang, Shiyu Liu, Zhiwei He, Kangjie Zheng, Liangying Shao, Junfeng Yao, Jinsong Su
• [BMVC 2025] Beyond Gloss: A Hand-Centric Framework for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation. [paper]
  Sobhan Asasi, Mohamed Ilyas Lakhal, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden
• [ACL 2025] SHuBERT: Self-Supervised Sign Language Representation Learning via Multi-Stream Cluster Prediction. [paper]
  Shester Gueuwou, Xiaodan Du, Greg Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu, Alexander H. Liu
• [ACL 2025] Multilingual Gloss-free Sign Language Translation: Towards Building a Sign Language Foundation Model. [paper]
  Sihan Tan, Taro Miyazaki, Kazuhiro Nakadai
• [ACL Findings 2025] SignMusketeers: An Efficient Multi-Stream Approach for Sign Language Translation at Scale. [paper]
  Shester Gueuwou, Xiaodan Du, Greg Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu
• Complete List of Sign Language Translation

Sign Language Production

• [WACV 2026] DexAvatar: 3D Sign Language Reconstruction with Hand and Body Pose Priors. [paper]
  Kaustubh Kundu, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Lucy Robertson-Bell, Zhixi Cai, Kalin Stefanov
• [CVPR 2026] Focal–General Diffusion Model with Semantic Consistent Guidance for Sign Language Production. [paper]
  Yiheng Yu, Sheng Liu, Yuan Feng, Zhelun Jin, Yining Jiang, Min Xu
• [CVPR 2026] SignPR: A Progressive Vector-Quantized Diffusion Framework for Sign Language Production. [paper]
  Xiao Liu, Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin, Bowen Guo, Zhiwei Jiang, Shunmei Meng, Lei Xie, Sanglu Lu
• [WACV 2026] Disentangle and Regularize: Sign Language Production with Articulator-Based Disentanglement and Channel-Aware Regularization. [paper]
  Sumeyye Meryem Tasyurek, Tugce Kiziltepe, Hacer Yalim Keles
• [NeurIPS 2025] Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization. [paper]
  Cong Wang, Zexuan Deng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Fei Shen, Zifeng Cheng, Shiping Ge, Shiwei Gan, Qing Gu
• [ICCV 2025] GReg: Geometry-Aware Region Refinement for Sign Language Video Generation. [[paper]](https://