Development of an End-to-End Deep Learning Framework for Sign Language Recognition, Translation, and Video Generation

Abstract

The recent developments in deep learning techniques evolved to new heights in various domains and applications. The recognition, translation, and video generation of Sign Language (SL) still face huge challenges from the development perspective. Although numerous advancements have been made in earlier approaches, the model performance still lacks recognition accuracy and visual quality. In this paper, we introduce novel approaches for developing the complete framework for handling SL recognition, translation, and production tasks in real-time cases. To achieve higher recognition accuracy, we use the MediaPipe library and a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network + Bi-directional Long Short Term Memory (CNN + Bi-LSTM) model for pose details extraction and text generation. On the other hand, the production of sign gesture videos for given spoken sentences is implemented using a hybrid Neural Machine Translation (NMT) + MediaPipe + Dynamic Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) model. The proposed model addresses the various complexities present in the existing approaches and achieves above 95% classification accuracy. In addition to that, the model performance is tested in various phases of development, and the evaluation metrics show noticeable improvements in our model. The model has been experimented with using different multilingual benchmark sign corpus and produces greater results in terms of recognition accuracy and visual quality. The proposed model has secured a 38.06 average Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) score, remarkable human evaluation scores, 3.46 average Fréchet Inception Distance to videos (FID2vid) score, 0.921 average Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) values, 8.4 average Inception Score, 29.73 average Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) score, 14.06 average Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score, and an average 0.715 Temporal Consistency Metric (TCM) Score which is evidence of the proposed work.

Keywords

• Deep learning
• generative adversarial networks
• sign language recognition
• sign language translation
• video generation