Isolated Sign Language Recognition for Icelandic Sign Language: Experiments in a Low-resource Setting

arXiv:2609.25862 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/maty-bohacek/spoter

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 36× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• American Sign Language — 4× in this paper
• Data Augmentation — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Connectionist Temporal Classification — 1× in this paper
• ELRA Language Resources Association — 1× in this paper
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Combining Efficient and Precise Sign Language Recognition: Good pose estimation library is all you need
• Sign Language Transformers: Joint End-to-end Sign Language Recognition and Translation
• Towards the extraction of robust sign embeddings for low resource sign language recognition
• MS-ASL: A Large-Scale Data Set and Benchmark for Understanding American Sign Language
• Quantitative Survey of the State of the Art in Sign Language Recognition
• SDPose: Exploiting Diffusion Priors for Out-of-Domain and Robust Pose Estimation
• MediaPipe: A Framework for Building Perception Pipelines
• Evaluating the Immediate Applicability of Pose Estimation for Sign Language Recognition

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