arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-04
ViPo-MLLM: Visual-Pose Multimodal LLM for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
Ahmed Abul Hasanaath, Bicheng Xu, Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain, Leonid Sigal, Hamzah Luqman
Gloss-free Sign Language Translation (SLT) translates sign language videos into spoken-language sentences without gloss annotations, avoiding costly labeling but requiring fine-grained modeling of hands, body, and facial cues. Existing methods often use single-modality or weakly…