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

• 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

• [ICLR 2026 Submission] BANZ-FS: BANZSL FINGERSPELLING DATASET. [paper]
  Submission15125 Authors
• [ICLR 2026 Submission] EmoSign: A Multimodal Dataset for Understanding Emotions in American Sign Language. [paper]
  Submission14816 Authors
• [ICLR 2026 Submission] LexSign: Learning Sign Language from Lexical Descriptions. [paper]
  Submission7787 Authors
• [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
• [OpenReview] Representing Signs as Signs: One-Shot ISLR to Facilitate Functional Sign Language Technologies. [paper]
  Toon Vandendriessche, Mathieu De Coster, Annelies Lejon, Joni Dambre
• [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

• [ICLR 2026 Submission]T2G-Reasoner: Deep Reasoning for Text-to-Gloss Translation. [paper]
  Submission23323 Authors
• [ICLR 2026 Submission] Sigma: Semantically Informative Pre-training for Skeleton-based Sign Language Understanding. [paper]
  Submission11776 Authors
• [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

• [ICLR 2026 Submission] SignAligner: Harmonizing Complementary Pose Modalities for Coherent Sign Language Generation. [paper]
  Submission1706 Authors
• [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]
  Tongkai Shi, Lianyu Hu, Fanhua Shang, Liqing Gao, Wei Feng
• [ICCV 2025] Signs as Tokens: A Retrieval-Enhanced Multilingual Sign Language Generator. [paper]
  Ronglai Zuo, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Evangelos Ververas, Jiankang Deng, Stefanos Zafeiriou
• [CVPR 2025] Discrete to Continuous: Generating Smooth Transition Poses from Sign Language Observations. [paper]
  Shengeng Tang, Jiayi He, Lechao Cheng, Jingjing Wu, Dan Guo, Richang Hong
• [EMNLP Findings 2024] Word-Conditioned 3D American Sign Language Motion Generation. [paper]
  Lu Dong, Xiao Wang, Ifeoma Nwogu
• [ECCV 2024] A Simple Baseline for Spoken Language to Sign Language Translation with 3D Avatars. [paper]
  Ronglai Zuo, Fangyun Wei, Zenggui Chen, Brian Mak, Jiaolong Yang, Xin Tong
• [ECCV 2024] Pose Guided Fine-Grained Sign Language Video Generation. [paper]
  Tongkai Shi, Lianyu Hu, Fanhua Shang, Jichao Feng, liu peidong, Wei Feng
• [ECCV 2024] SignGen: End-to-End Sign Language Video Generation with Latent Diffusion. [paper]
  Fan Qi, Yu Duan, Changsheng Xu, Huaiwen Zhang
• [ACL 2024] T2S-GPT: Dynamic Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Sign Language Production from Text. [paper]
  Aoxiong Yin, Haoyuan Li, Kai Shen, Siliang Tang, Yueting Zhuang
• [ACL Findings 2024] MS2SL: Multimodal Spoken Data-Driven Continuous Sign Language Production. [paper]
  Jian Ma, Wenguan Wang, Yi Yang, Feng Zheng
• Complete List of Sign Language Production

• [WMT 2025] Meaningful Pose-Based Sign Language Evaluation. [paper]
  Zifan Jiang, Colin Leong, Amit Moryossef, Oliver Cory, Maksym Ivashechkin, Neha Tarigopula, Biao Zhang, Anne Göhring, Annette Rios, Rico Sennrich, Sarah Ebling
• [EMNLP 2025] Improving Handshape Representations for Sign Language Processing: A Graph Neural Network Approach. [paper]
  Alessa Carbo, Eric Nalisnick
• [EMNLP Findings 2025] Investigating Dictionary Expansion for Video-based Sign Language Dictionaries. [paper]
  Aashaka Desai, Daniela Massiceti, Richard Ladner, Hal Daumé Iii, Danielle Bragg, Alex Xijie Lu
• [ACM MM 2025] Sentence-level Segmentation for Long Sign Language Videos with Captions. [paper]
  Bowen Guo, Shiwei Gan, Yafeng Yin, Xiao Liu, Zhiwei Jiang, Shunmei Meng
• [ACL Findings 2025] Sign2Vis: Automated Data Visualization from Sign Language. [paper]
  Yao Wan, Yang Wu, Zhen Li, Guobiao Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Hai Jin, April Wang
• [ACL Findings 2025] 2M-BELEBELE: Highly Multilingual Speech and American Sign Language Comprehension Dataset. [paper]
  Marta R. Costa-jussà, Bokai YU, Pierre Andrews, Belen Alastruey, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Joe Chuang, Jean Maillard, Christophe Ropers, Arina Turkatenko, Carleigh Wood
• [ACL Findings 2025] Large Language Models as Sign Language Interfaces: Mitigating the Requests of Deaf Users of LLMs in a Hearing-Centric World. [paper]
  Mert Inan, Anthony Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani
• [EMNLP Findings 2024] Gloss2Text: Sign Language Gloss translation using LLMs and Semantically Aware Label Smoothing. [paper]
  Pooya Fayyazsanavi, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Jana Kosecka
• [EMNLP 2024] Unsupervised Discrete Representations of American Sign Language. [paper]
  Artem Abzaliev, Rada Mihalcea
• [EMNLP 2024] Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models. [paper]
  Katherine Atwell, Danielle Bragg, Malihe Alikhani
• [ECCV 2024] Uncertainty-aware sign language video retrieval with probability distribution modeling. [paper]
  Xuan Wu, Hongxiang Li, yuanjiang luo, Xuxin Cheng, Xianwei Zhuang, Meng Cao, Keren Fu
• [ECCV 2024] SignAvatars: A Large-scale 3D Sign Language Holistic Motion Dataset and Benchmark. [paper]
  Zhengdi Yu, Shaoli Huang, yongkang cheng, Tolga Birdal
• [ACL 2024] Semi-Supervised Spoken Language Glossification. [paper]
  Huijie Yao, Wengang Zhou, Hao Zhou, Houqiang Li
• [ACL 2024] American Sign Language Handshapes Reflect Pressures for Communicative Efficiency. [paper]
  Kayo Yin, Terry Regier, Dan Klein
• [EMNLP Findings 2023] Enhancing Accessible Communication: from European Portuguese to Portuguese Sign Language. [paper]
  Catarina Sousa, Luisa Coheur, Mara Moita
• [CVPR 2023] CiCo: Domain-Aware Sign Language Retrieval via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning. [paper][code]
  Yiting Cheng, Fangyun Wei, Jianmin Bao, Dong Chen, Wenqiang Zhang
• [CVPR 2023] Ham2Pose: Animating Sign Language Notation into Pose Sequences. [paper]
  Rotem Shalev Arkushin, Amit Moryossef, Ohad Fried

• [NeurIPS 2025] PyraMotion: Attentional Pyramid-Structured Motion Integration for Co-Speech 3D Gesture Synthesis. [paper]
  Zhizhuo Yin, Yuk Hang Tsui, Pan Hui
• [ICCV 2025] Democratizing High-Fidelity Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation. [paper]
  Xu Yang, Shaoli Huang, Shenbo Xie, Xuelin Chen, Yifei Liu, Changxing Ding
• [ICCV 2025] GestureHYDRA: Semantic Co-speech Gesture Synthesis via Hybrid Modality Diffusion Transformer and Cascaded-Synchronized Retrieval-Augmented Generation. [paper]
  Quanwei Yang, Luying Huang, Kaisiyuan Wang, Jiazhi Guan, Shengyi He, Fengguo Li, Hang Zhou, Lingyun Yu, Yingying Li, Haocheng Feng, Hongtao Xie
• [ICCV 2025] GestureLSM: Latent Shortcut based Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Spatial-Temporal Modeling. [paper]
  Pinxin Liu, Luchuan Song, Junhua Huang, Haiyang Liu, Chenliang Xu
• [ICCV 2025] SemGes: Semantics-aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation using Semantic Coherence and Relevance Learning. [paper]
  Lanmiao Liu, Esam Ghaleb, asli ozyurek, Zerrin Yumak
• [ACM MM 2025] Contextual Gesture: Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation through Context-aware Gesture Representation [paper]
  Pinxin Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Ari Shapiro, Kyle Olszewski
• [CVPR 2025] Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis. [paper]
  Muhammad Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Merel CJ Scholman, Vera Demberg, Christian Theobalt
• [CVPR 2025] Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation with Implicit Motion-Audio Entanglement. [paper]
  Xinjie Li, Ziyi Chen, Xinlu Yu, Iek-Heng Chu, Peng Chang, Jing Xiao
• [CVPR 2025] HOP: Heterogeneous Topology-based Multimodal Entanglement for Co-Speech Gesture Generation. [paper]
  Hongye Cheng, Tianyu Wang, guangsi shi, Zexing Zhao, Yanwei Fu
• [ACM MM 2025] Realistic-Gesture: Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation through Semantic-aware Gesture Representation. [paper]
  Pinxin Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Ari Shapiro, Kyle Olszewski
• Complete List of Co-speech Gesture Generation

• [NeurIPS 2025] Doodle to Detect: A Goofy but Powerful Approach to Skeleton-based Hand Gesture Recognition. [paper]
  Sang Hoon Han, Seonho Lee, Hyeok Nam, Jae Hyeon Park, Min Hee Cha, Min Geol Kim, Hyunse Lee, Sangyeon Ahn, Chae moon ju, Sung In Cho
• [CVPR 2025] Ges3ViG: Incorporating Pointing Gestures into Language-Based 3D Visual Grounding for Embodied Reference Understanding. [paper]
  Atharv Mahesh Mane, Dulanga Weerakoon, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Sougata Sen, Sanjay Sarma, Archan Misra
• [CVPR 2025] SocialGesture: Delving into Multi-person Gesture Understanding. [paper]
  Xu Cao, Pranav Virupaksha, Wenqi Jia, Bolin Lai, Fiona Ryan, Sangmin Lee, James Rehg
• [OpenReview] Revisiting Noise Resilience Strategies in Gesture Recognition: Short-Term Enhancement in Surface Electromyographic Signal Analysis. [paper]
  Weiyu Guo, Ziyue Qiao, Ying Sun, Hui Xiong
• [ICCV 2023] Learning Robust Representations with Information Bottleneck and Memory Network for RGB-D-based Gesture Recognition. [paper]
  Yunan Li, Huizhou Chen, Guanwen Feng, Qiguang Miao
• [ICCV 2023] Data-Free Class-Incremental Hand Gesture Recognition. [paper]
  Shubhra Aich, Jesus Ruiz-Santaquiteria, Zhenyu Lu, Prachi Garg, K J Joseph, Alvaro Fernandez Garcia, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Kenrick Kin, Chengde Wan, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Shugao Ma, Fernando De la Torre
• [BMVC 2022] Towards more efficient few-shot learning based human gesture recognition via dynamic vision sensors. [paper]
  Linglin Jing, Yifan Wang, Tailin Chen, Shirin Dora, Zhigang Ji, Hui Fang
• [BMVC 2022] Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition using Deep Coarse and Fine Hand Features. [paper]
  Hazem Wannous, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre
• [CVPR 2022] LD-ConGR: A Large RGB-D Video Dataset for Long-Distance Continuous Gesture Recognition. [paper]
  Dan Liu; Libo Zhang; Yanjun Wu
• [AAAI 2022] Learning Unseen Emotions from Gestures via Semantically-Conditioned Zero-Shot Perception with Adversarial Autoencoders. [paper]
  Abhishek Banerjee, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Aniket Bera
• Complete List of Gesture Recognition

• [CVPR SLRTP 2025] Sign language recognition, translation & production.
• [ECCV SLRTP 2022] Sign language recognition, translation & production.
• [ECCV SLRTP 2020] Sign language recognition, translation & production. [Accepted papers]
• [WWW CV-SLR 2025] Cross-View Isolated Sign Language Recognition Challenge
• [ICCV MSLR 2025] 1st Multimodal Sign Language Recognition Workshop
• [ICCV ACVR 2023] Eleventh International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics
• [CVPR ChaLearn-SLR 2021] 2021 ChaLearn Looking at People Sign Language Recognition in the Wild Workshop at CVPR
• [ACL LoResMT 2024] The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages