9th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies.
List of accepted papers and sessions detail.
Workshop day: 16 September 2025.
Nunnari, F., Luna-Jiménez, C., Wolfe, R., McDonald, J., Filhol, M., Efthimiou, E., Fotinea, E., Hanke, T. (2025) “9th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT 2025),” in Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA Adjunct ’25: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Berlin Germany: ACM, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3742886.3759656.
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ID |
Title (w/ link to ACM Digital Library) |
Authors |
| Oral/Signed Presentations A (9:15-10:15) |
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10 |
Involvement
of the Deaf Community in Large Scale Projects: Overview of SignON and EASIER
Co-Creation Practices |
Lisa
Bianca Lepp, Mirella De Sisto, Dimitar Shterionov |
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30 |
User
Acceptance of Augmented Remote Sign Language Interpreting |
Zheng
Dan Xia, Maartje de Meulder, Gomèr Otterspeer, Floris Roelofsen |
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13 |
Using
Sign Language Production as Data Augmentation to enhance Sign Language
Translation |
Harry
Walsh, Maksym Ivashechkin, Richard Bowden |
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| Posters A (11:00-12:30) |
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1 |
The
Importance of Facial Features in Vision-based Sign Language Recognition:
Eyes, Mouth or Full Face? |
Dinh
Nam Pham, Eleftherios Avramidis |
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2 |
Designing
a Marker Based Motion Capture Setup for Sign Language Research |
J.I.
Andersen, Gomèr Otterspeer, Robert G. Belleman, Floris Roelofsen |
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3 |
Motion-Based
Analysis of Personalization and Kinematic Features in Japanese Sign Language
Video Data |
Zixuan
Dai, Shinji Sako |
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4 |
Real-World
Impacts of Sign Language Technologies |
Kevin
Lee, Josephine Joo |
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5 |
MMS
Player: an open source software for parametric data-driven animation of Sign
Language avatars |
Fabrizio
Nunnari, Shailesh Mishra, Patrick Gebhard |
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7 |
Enhancing
Signing Avatar Torso Movement with Linguistic Features Using Interpretable
Linear Models |
Shatabdi
Choudhury |
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8 |
Sign
Language Translation using Skip Connections and Selective Self-transfer
Learning |
Takeshi
Kajiyama, Tomoya Murakami, Taro Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Kaneko |
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9 |
Text-to-Sign
Language Production via Intermediate Skeletal Representations using
Transformers and Neural Rendering |
Chrysa
Pratikaki, Stavroula - Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou, Panagiotis Filntisis,
Anastasios Roussos, Petros Maragos |
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11 |
Modality
Matters: Training and Tokenization Effects in Sign-to-Text Translation |
Gerard
Sant, Amit Moryossef, Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling |
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14 |
Placement
Control Method for Sign Language Translation System |
Tsubasa
Uchida, Kohei Hakozaki, Taro Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Kaneko |
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15 |
Towards
Sign Language Motion Generation from Blurred Videos: System Development and
Evaluation |
Tomoya
Murakami, Kohei Hakozaki, Hiroyuki Kaneko |
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18 |
LLM-Driven
Multimodal Video-Text Fusion for Isolated Sign Language Recognition |
Sergio
Esteban-Romero, Cristina Luna-Jiménez, Manuel Gil-Martín, Fernando
Fernández-Martínez, Elisabeth Andre |
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G1 |
Comparison of Deep Learning and Statistical Methods in Sign Language Recognition |
Caner Dogan |
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| Posters B (14:00-15:30) |
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20 |
Translating
Sentences from Written French into LSF Annotation |
Clément
Reverdy, Sylvie Gibet, Pierre-François Marteau |
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21 |
Color
histogram equalization and fine-tuning to improve expression recognition of
(partially occluded) faces on sign language datasets |
Fabrizio
Nunnari, Alakshendra Singh, Patrick Gebhard |
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22 |
Towards
an AI-based Sign Language Video Editing Interface |
Hossein
Ranjbar, Sarah Ebling, Alessia Battisti, Lisa Arter, Laura Setz |
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23 |
Sign
Spotting Disambiguation using Large Language Models |
Low
Jian He, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden |
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24 |
Combining
the user friendliness of SignWriting with the precision of linguistic
parameters |
Antonio
F. G. Sevilla, José María Lahoz-Bengoechea, Sandra Conde González, ALBERTO
DIAZ, Pablo Folgueira Galán, Julia de la Calle Pérez |
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25 |
Exploring
Sign-level Strategies to Enhance Automatic Translation of French Sign
Language |
Diandra
Fabre, Julie Lascar, Julie Halbout, Yanis Ouakrim, Annelies Braffort, Thomas
Hueber, Michèle Gouiffès, Denis Beautemps |
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26 |
Hierarchical
Feature Alignment for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation |
Sobhan
Asasi, Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Richard Bowden |
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28 |
Preprocessing
MediaPipe Joint Annotation for Sign Language Similarity Analysis |
Kehina
Manseri, Sam Bigeard, Slim Ouni |
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31 |
Contrastive
Pretraining with Dual Visual Encoders for Gloss-Free Sign Language
Translation |
Ozge
Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden |
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32 |
Challenges
and opportunities in portraying emotion in generated sign language |
John
C. McDonald, Rosalee Wolfe, Fabrizio Nunnari |
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35 |
Evaluation
of a Sign Language Avatar on Comprehensibility, User Experience &
Acceptability |
Fenya
Wasseroth, Eleftherios Avramidis, Vera Czehmann, Tanja Kojic, Fabrizio
Nunnari, Sebastian Möller |
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37 |
The TUB Sign Language Corpus Collection |
Eleftherios
Avramidis, Vera Czehmann, Fabian Decker, Lorenz Hufe, Aljoscha Lipski, Yuni
Amaloa Quintero Villalobos,
Mengqian Shi, Tae Kwon Rhee, Lennart Stölting, Fabrizio Nunnari, Sebastian
Möller |
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| Oral/Signed Presentations B (16:00-17:00) |
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34 |
Spotter+GPT:
Turning Sign Spottings into Sentences with LLMs |
Ozge
Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden |
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17 |
Towards
Skeletal and Signer Noise Reduction in Sign Language Production via
Quaternion-Based Pose Encoding and Contrastive Learning |
Guilhem
Fauré, Mostafa SADEGHI, Sam Bigeard, Slim Ouni |
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36 |
Motion
Capture Driven Avatars for Swedish Sign Language |
Anna
Klezovich, Johanna Mesch, Jonas Beskow |