9th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technologies.
List of accepted papers and sessions detail.
See the main SLTAT 2025 Home page https://sltat2025.github.io for the overall program and other info.
Workshop day: 16 September 2025.
The workshop will take place within the Intelligent Virtual Agents IVA2025 (https://iva.acm.org/2025/) conference at the HTW campus (directly at the river Spree) in Berlin, Germany.
| Session | ID | Title | Authors |
| Oral/Signed Presentations A | |||
| 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 | |
| 30 | User Acceptance of Augmented Remote Sign Language Interpreting | Zheng Dan Xia, Maartje de Meulder, Gomèr Otterspeer, Floris Roelofsen | |
| 13 | Using Sign Language Production as Data Augmentation to enhance Sign Language Translation | Harry Walsh, Maksym Ivashechkin, Richard Bowden | |
| Posters A | |||
| 1 | The Importance of Facial Features in Vision-based Sign Language Recognition: Eyes, Mouth or Full Face? | Dinh Nam Pham, Eleftherios Avramidis | |
| 2 | Designing a Marker Based Motion Capture Setup for Sign Language Research | J.I. Andersen, Gomèr Otterspeer, Robert G. Belleman, Floris Roelofsen | |
| 3 | Motion-Based Analysis of Personalization and Kinematic Features in Japanese Sign Language Video Data | Zixuan Dai, Shinji Sako | |
| 4 | Real-World Impacts of Sign Language Technologies | Kevin Lee, Josephine Joo | |
| 5 | MMS Player: an open source software for parametric data-driven animation of Sign Language avatars | Fabrizio Nunnari, Shailesh Mishra, Patrick Gebhard | |
| 7 | Enhancing Signing Avatar Torso Movement with Linguistic Features Using Interpretable Linear Models | Shatabdi Choudhury | |
| 8 | Sign Language Translation using Skip Connections and Selective Self-transfer Learning | Takeshi Kajiyama, Tomoya Murakami, Taro Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Kaneko | |
| 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 | |
| 11 | Modality Matters: Training and Tokenization Effects in Sign-to-Text Translation | Gerard Sant, Amit Moryossef, Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling | |
| 14 | Placement Control Method for Sign Language Translation System | Tsubasa Uchida, Kohei Hakozaki, Taro Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Kaneko | |
| 15 | Towards Sign Language Motion Generation from Blurred Videos: System Development and Evaluation | Tomoya Murakami, Kohei Hakozaki, Hiroyuki Kaneko | |
| 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 | |
| Posters B | |||
| 20 | Translating Sentences from Written French into LSF Annotation | Clément Reverdy, Sylvie Gibet, Pierre-François Marteau | |
| 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 | |
| 22 | Towards an AI-based Sign Language Video Editing Interface | Hossein Ranjbar, Sarah Ebling, Alessia Battisti, Lisa Arter, Laura Setz | |
| 23 | Sign Spotting Disambiguation using Large Language Models | Low Jian He, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 26 | Hierarchical Feature Alignment for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation | Sobhan Asasi, Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Richard Bowden | |
| 28 | Preprocessing MediaPipe Joint Annotation for Sign Language Similarity Analysis | Kehina Manseri, Sam Bigeard | |
| 31 | Contrastive Pretraining with Dual Visual Encoders for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation | Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden | |
| 32 | Challenges and opportunities in portraying emotion in generated sign language | John C. McDonald, Rosalee Wolfe, Fabrizio Nunnari | |
| 35 | Evaluation of a Sign Language Avatar on Comprehensibility, User Experience & Acceptability | Fenya Wasseroth, Eleftherios Avramidis, Vera Czehmann, Tanja Kojic, Fabrizio Nunnari, Sebastian Möller | |
| 37 | The SiLCC Sign Language Corpus Collection | Eleftherios Avramidis, Vera Czehmann, Fabian Decker, Lorenz Jufe, Aljoscha Lipski, Yuni Amaloa Quintero Villalobos, Mengqian Shi, Tae Kwon Rhee, Lennart Stölting, Fabrizio Nunnari, Sebastian Möller | |
| Oral/Signed Presentations B | |||
| 34 | Spotter+GPT: Turning Sign Spottings into Sentences with LLMs | Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Richard Bowden | |
| 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 | |
| 36 | Motion Capture Driven Avatars for Swedish Sign Language | Anna Klezovich, Johanna Mesch, Jonas Beskow |