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Sign language production

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Keywords: sign, sign language, language, language production, pose

Key facts. Sign language production: 15 papers on arXiv since 2022 (data through 7 Oct 2026). 7 of its 15 mapped papers (47%) cite “G2P-DDM: Generating Sign Pose Sequence from Gloss Sequence with Discrete Diffusion Model” (2022, arXiv 2208.09141). 4 of its 15 mapped papers (27%) cite “Neural Sign Actors: A diffusion model for 3D sign language production from text” (2023, arXiv 2312.02702).

What’s new

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Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. G2P-DDM: Generating Sign Pose Sequence from Gloss Sequence with Discrete Diffusion Model2022cited by 7 here
  2. Neural Sign Actors: A diffusion model for 3D sign language production from text2023cited by 4 here
  3. SignDiff: Diffusion Model for American Sign Language Production2023cited by 2 here
  4. Discrete to Continuous: Generating Smooth Transition Poses from Sign Language Observation2024cited by 2 here
  5. Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization2025cited by 2 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 11 here
  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 6 here
  3. 2021Improved Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 3 here
  4. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 1 here
  5. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 12 here
  6. 2022MagicVideo: Efficient Video Generation With Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 2 here
  7. 2022Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generationcited by 3 here
  8. 2023AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuningcited by 3 here
  9. 2023MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Modelcited by 2 here
  10. 2025Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenizationcited by 2 here
14 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2020Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 2 here
  2. 2022Video Diffusion Modelscited by 3 here
  3. 2022Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidancecited by 2 here
  4. 2022G2P-DDM: Generating Sign Pose Sequence from Gloss Sequence with Discrete Diffusion Modelcited by 7 here
  5. 2022DiffuSeq: Sequence to Sequence Text Generation with Diffusion Modelscited by 2 here
  6. 2022Executing your Commands via Motion Diffusion in Latent Spacecited by 2 here
  7. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformerscited by 3 here
  8. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 4 here
  9. 2023ControlVideo: Training-free Controllable Text-to-Video Generationcited by 3 here
  10. 2023SignDiff: Diffusion Model for American Sign Language Productioncited by 2 here
  11. 2023Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasetscited by 3 here
  12. 2023Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animationcited by 2 here
  13. 2023Neural Sign Actors: A diffusion model for 3D sign language production from textcited by 4 here
  14. 2024Discrete to Continuous: Generating Smooth Transition Poses from Sign Language Observationcited by 2 here

The 24 most cited of 111.

Browse

10 of 15, ranked 6–15

  1. 6Text-Driven Diffusion Model for Sign Language Production20251
  2. 7Text2Sign Diffusion: A Generative Approach for Gloss-Free Sign Language Production20251
  3. 8MaDiS: Taming Masked Diffusion Language Models for Sign Language Generation20260
  4. 9The Impact of VAE Design on Latent Pose Representations for Diffusion-based Sign Language Production20260
  5. 10Text2Sign: A Single-GPU Diffusion Baseline for Text-to-Sign Language Video Generation20260
  6. 11SignRefine: Adapting Foundational Video Models for Sign Language Generation20260
  7. 12Hybrid Autoregressive-Diffusion Model for Real-Time Sign Language Production20250
  8. 13DiffSLT: Enhancing Diversity in Sign Language Translation via Diffusion Model20240
  9. 14DiffSign: AI-Assisted Generation of Customizable Sign Language Videos With Enhanced Realism20240
  10. 15DiffSLVA: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Sign Language Video Anonymization20230