AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters and 100s of hours of data but remain only partially annotated and thus underutilized, in part due to the prohibitive costs of annotating at this scale. In this work, we develop a pseudo-annotation pipeline that takes signed video and English as input and outputs a ranked set of likely annotations, including time intervals, for glosses, fingerspelled words, and sign classifiers. Our pipeline uses sparse predictions from… Read More
Bootstrapping Sign Language Annotations with Sign Language Models
AI-driven sign language interpretation is limited by a lack of high-quality annotated data. New datasets including ASL STEM Wiki and FLEURS-ASL contain professional interpreters and 100s of hours of data but remain only partially annotated and thus underutilized, in part due to the prohibitive costs of annotating at this scale. In this work, we develop a pseudo-annotation pipeline that takes signed video and English as input and outputs a ranked set of likely annotations, including time intervals, for glosses, fingerspelled words, and sign classifiers. Our pipeline uses sparse predictions from…