One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium on AI for Sign Language Translation, Production, and Linguistics
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Chairs: Edward Fish (University of Surrey), Youngjoon Jang (KAIST), Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan (University of Surrey)
Queries? contact the Meeting's Organiser Andrew Gilbert here
Invited Keynotes
- Prof. Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford/Google DeepMind)
- Dr. Abraham Glasser (Gallaudet University)
- Dr. Oscar Koller (Microsoft)
- Prof. Richard Bowden (University of Surrey)
BSL, International Sign, and ASL interpreting is available. Please contact us for details.
The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) is pleased to announce its upcoming one-day symposium on Sign Language Translation, Production, and Linguistics. This event aims to bring together researchers, academics, and industry professionals from the fields of computer vision, linguistics, and Deaf studies to explore the significant advancements and pressing challenges in automatic sign language processing. This symposium will provide a platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research and will foster collaboration between technical experts and the Deaf community. The day will feature a series of invited talks from leading figures in the field, alongside paper presentations, posters, and demos.
Event Schedule
| Start | End | Duration | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:10 | 09:30 | 20 mins | Registration, Poster Set-up & Welcome Coffee |
| 09:30 | 10:00 | 30 mins | Invited Keynote: Richard Bowden (University of Surrey) |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | 60 mins | Session 1: Production (3D Motion, Generation, and Synthesis) |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | 30 mins | Coffee Break & Poster Session 1 |
| 11:30 | 12:10 | 40 mins | Invited Keynote: Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) |
| 12:10 | 13:10 | 60 mins | Lunch & Poster Session 2 |
| 13:10 | 13:50 | 40 mins | Invited Keynote: Oscar Koller (Microsoft) |
| 13:50 | 14:50 | 60 mins | Session 2: Datasets (Creation, Challenges, and Scaling) |
| 14:50 | 15:20 | 30 mins | Coffee Break & Poster Session 3 |
| 15:20 | 16:00 | 40 mins | Invited Keynote: Abraham Glasser (Gallaudet University) |
| 16:00 | 17:00 | 60 mins | Session 3: Translation (Models, Applications, and Co-Design) |
Session 1: Production: 3D Motion, Generation, and Synthesis
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Text-Driven 3D Hand Motion Generation from Sign Language Data
Léore Bensabath (École nationale des ponts et chaussées) -
Generating Sign Language Motions via Language Modelling
Ronglai Zuo (Imperial College London) -
Iterative Latent Refinement for Robust Non-Autoregressive Sign Language Production
Tuğçe Kiziltepe (Hacettepe University) -
Temporal denoising of 3D reconstructed hand pose sequences
Fredrik Malmberg (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Session 2: Datasets: Creation, Challenges, and Scaling
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SignAvatars: A Large-scale 3D Sign Language Holistic Motion Dataset and Benchmark
Tolga Birdal (Imperial College London) -
Scaling 3D Sign Language Datasets: Markerless Hand Capture in the Wild
Rolandos A. Potamias (Imperial College London) -
Challenges in Sign Language AI Research: The Data Problem
Matt Brown, Neil Fox, Bencie Woll, Kearsy Cormier (UCL, University of Birmingham) -
BUTID: A Large-scale Sign Language Translation Dataset and Benchmarks for Turkish Sign Language
Karahan Sahin (Boğaziçi University / University of Surrey)
Session 3: Translation: Models, Applications, and Co-Design
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Community Driven AI Futures – Exploring the use of speculative fictions to increase AI literacy for signing communities.
Lauren Ward (RNID: Royal National Institute for Deaf People) -
AI BSL Translation - How to deliver translations at scale
Ben Saunders (Signapse) -
Segment, Embed, and Align: A Universal Recipe for Aligning Subtitles to Signing
Zifan Jiang (University of Zurich / University of Oxford / Google DeepMind) -
Handshape Classification using HaMeR reconstruction
Gomer Otterspeer (University of Amsterdam)
📌 Accepted Posters
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AI-Supported Sign Language Practice
Ronald Grau (University of Sussex) -
Vision Transformers for Sign Language Recognition
Charlotte Richardson (University of Sussex) -
Sign Language Processing with Linguistic Structure
Annelies Braffort, Michael Filhol, Michèle Gouiffès, Julie Halbout, Julie Lascar (French National Centre for Scientific Research) -
A New Swedish Sign Language Motion Capture Corpus for Probabilistic Sign Language Generation
Anna Klezovich (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) -
Arguing for the Colloquial Signer: Towards Letter-Level Transitional Modelling
Poppy Fynes (University of York)
Important: This is an in-person event, with no virtual attendance option. We kindly ask all presenters to join us at the British Computer Society on the day.
Meeting Location
The meeting will take place at:
British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP
Registration
We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows
- All Attendees: £30 Including lunch and refreshments for the day