AI RESEARCH
EfficientSign: An Attention-Enhanced Lightweight Architecture for Indian Sign Language Recognition
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.08694v1 Announce Type: cross How do you build a sign language recognizer that works on a phone? That question drove this work. We built EfficientSign, a lightweight model which takes EfficientNet-B0 and focuses on two attention modules (Squeeze-and-Excitation for channel focus, and a spatial attention layer that focuses on the hand gestures). We tested it against five other approaches on 12,637 images of Indian Sign Language alphabets, all 26 classes, using 5-fold cross-validation.