Publications

Conference Papers

1. Ryan Wong, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, SignRep: Enhancing Self-Supervised Sign Representations, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
2. Dibyadip Chatterjee, Edoardo Remelli, Yale Song, Bugra Tekin, Abhay Mittal, Bharat Bhatnagar, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Shreyas Hampali, Eric Sauser, Shugao Ma, Angela Yao, Fadime Sener, Streaming VideoLLMs for Real-time Procedural Video Understanding, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
3. Marta R Costa-Jussa, Bokai Yu, Pierre Andrews, Belen Alastruey, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Joe Chuang, Jean Maillard, Christophe Ropers, Arina Turkatenko, Carleigh Wood, 2M-BELEBELE: Highly Multilingual Speech and American Sign Language Comprehension Dataset, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.
4. Phillip Rust, Bowen Shi, Skyler Wang, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Jean Maillard, Towards Privacy-Aware Sign Language Translation at Scale, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024.
5. Kenrick Kin, Chengde Wan, Ken Koh, Andrei Marin, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Yubo Zhang, Yujun Cai, Fedor Kovalev, Moshe Ben-Zacharia, Shannon Hoople, Marcos Nunes-Ueno, Mariel Sanchez-Rodriguez, Ayush Bhargava, Robert Wang, Eric Sauser, Shugao Ma, STMG: A Machine Learning Microgesture Recognition System for Supporting Thumb-Based VR/AR Input, The CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024.
6. Prachi Garg, KJ Joseph, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Chengde Wan, Kenrick Kin, Weiguang Si, Shugao Ma, Fernando De La Torre, POET: Prompt Offset Tuning for Continual Human Action Adaptation, 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oral 2024.
7. Ryan Wong, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Sign2GPT: Leveraging Large Language Models for Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation, The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
8. Mathias Müller, Malihe Alikhani, Eleftherios Avramidis, Richard Bowden, Annelies Braffort, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Sarah Ebling, Cristina Espana-Bonet, Anne Ghring, Roman Grundkiewicz, Mert Inan, Zifan Jiang, Oscar Koller, Amit Moryossef, Annette Rios Gonzales, Dimitar Shterionov, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Katja Tissi, Davy Van Landuyt, Findings of the Second WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT23), Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2023.
9. Shubhra Aich, Jesus Ruiz-Santaquiteria, Zhenyu Lu, Prachi Garg, KJ Joseph, Alvaro Fernandez Garcia, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Kenrick Kin, Chengde Wan, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Shugao Ma, Fernando De la Torre, Data-Free Class-Incremental Hand Gesture Recognition, IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
10. Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling, Eleftherios Avramidis, Alessia Battisti, Michele Berger, Richard Bowden, Annelies Braffort, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Cristina Espana-Bonet, Roman Grundkiewicz, Zifan Jiang, Oscar Koller, Amit Moryossef, Regula Perrollaz, Sabine Reinhard, Annette Rios, Dimitar Shterionov, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Katja Tissi, Davy Van Landuyt, First WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT22), 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 2023.
11. Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling, Eleftherios Avramidis, Alessia Battisti, Michele Berger, Richard Bowden, Annelies Braffort, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Cristina Espana-Bonet, Roman Grundkiewicz, Zifan Jiang, Oscar Koller, Amit Moryossef, Regula Perrollaz, Sabine Reinhard, Annette Rios Gonzales, Dimitar Shterionov, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Katja Tissi, Findings of the First WMT Shared Task on Sign Language Translation (WMT-SLT22), Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2022.
12. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Signing at Scale: Learning to Co-Articulate Signs for Large-Scale Photo-Realistic Sign Language Production, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
13. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Mixed SIGNals: Sign Language Production via a Mixture of Motion Primitives, IEEE 20th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
14. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Benjamin Saunders, Guillaume Rochette, Marco Giovanelli, Giacomo Inches, Robin Nachtrab-Ribback, Richard Bowden, Content4All Open Research Sign Language Translation Datasets, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2021.
15. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, AnonySign: Novel Human Appearance Synthesis for Sign Language Video Anonymisation, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2021.
16. Tao Jiang, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Looking for the Signs: Identifying Isolated Sign Instances in Continuous Video Footage, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2021.
17. Matthew Vowels, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Targeted VAE: Structured Inference and Targeted Learning for Causal Parameter Estimation, IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS), 2021.
18. Matthew Vowels, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, VDSM: Unsupervised Video Disentanglement with State-Space Modeling and Deep Mixtures of Experts, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
19. Samuel Albanie, Gül Varol, Liliane Momeni, Triantafyllos Afouras, Andrew Brown, Chuhan Zhang, Ernesto Coto, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ben Saunders, Abhishek Dutta, Neil Fox, Richard Bowden, Bencie Woll, Andrew Zisserman, SeeHear: Signer Diarisation and a New Dataset, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021.
20. Sandrine Tornay, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Mathew Magimai-Doss, A Phonology-based Approach for Isolated Sign Production Assessment in Sign Language, 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Late-Breaking Results, 2020.
21. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Adversarial Training for Multi-Channel Sign Language Production, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2020.
22. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Progressive Transformers for End-to-End Sign Language Production, 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
23. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Oscar Koller, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden, Sign Language Transformers: Joint End-to-end Sign Language Recognition and Translation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Oral 2020.
24. Matthew Vowels, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, NestedVAE: Isolating Common Factors via Weak Supervision, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.
25. Matthew Vowels, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Gated Variational AutoEncoders: Incorporating Weak Supervision to Encourage Disentanglement, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2020.
26. Sandrine Tornay, Marzieh Razavi, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Mathew Magimai-Doss, HMM-based Approaches to Model Multichannel Information in Sign Language Inspired from Articulatory Features-based Speech Processing, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Oral 2019.
27. Stephanie Stoll, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden, Sign Language Production using Neural Machine Translation and Generative Adversarial Networks, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Oral 2018.
28. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Simon Hadfield, Oscar Koller, Hermann Ney, Richard Bowden, Neural Sign Language Translation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018.
29. Sarah Ebling, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Penny Boyes Braem, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Stephanie Stoll, Simon Hadfield, Tobias Haug, Richard Bowden, Sandrine Tornay, Marzieh Razavi, Mathew Magimai-Doss, SMILE Swiss German Sign Language Dataset, 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2018.
30. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Simon Hadfield, Oscar Koller, Richard Bowden, SubUNets: End-to-end Hand Shape and Continuous Sign Language Recognition, IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oral: Spotlight 2017.
31. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Serpil Karabüklü, Meltem Kelepir, A. Sumru Özsoy, Lale Akarun, BosphorusSign: A Turkish Sign Language Recognition Corpus in Health and Finance Domains, 10th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2016.
32. Oğulcan Özdemir, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Lale Akarun, Isolated Sign Language Recognition using Improved Dense Trajectories, IEEE 24th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2016. [In Turkish]
33. Muhammed Miraç Süzgün, Hilal Özdemir, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Doğaç Başaran, Cengiz Togay, Lale Akarun, HospiSign: An Interactive Sign Language Platform for Hearing Impaired, International Conference on Computer Graphics, Animation and Gaming Technologies (Eurasia Graphics), 2015.
34. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, Facial Landmark Localization in Depth Images using Supervised Descent Method, IEEE 23rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2015. [In Turkish]
35. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Lale Akarun, Oya Aran, Domain Adaptation for Gesture Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models, IEEE 22nd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2014. [In Turkish]
36. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Cihan Tayşi, Amaç Güvensan, Elif Karsıgil, Gökhan Yavuz, A Fast and Accurate Motion Detection Algorithm for Embedded Systems, IEEE 21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2013. [In Turkish]
37. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Recep Öztürk, Cihan Tayşi, Amaç Güvensan, Gökhan Yavuz, Image Processing Capabilities of New Generation ARM Cores for WMSNs, IEEE 20th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2012. [In Turkish]

Journal Papers

1. Matthew Vowels, Sina Akbari, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, A Free Lunch with Influence Functions? An Empirical Evaluation of Influence Functions for Average Treatment Effect Estimation, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023.
2. Matthew Vowels, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, D'ya like DAGs? A Survey on Structure Learning and Causal Discovery, ACM Computing Surveys, 2022.
3. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Continuous 3D Multi-Channel Sign Language Production via Progressive Transformers and Mixture Density Networks, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2021.
4. Stephanie Stoll, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden, Text2Sign: Towards Sign Language Production using Neural Machine Translation and Generative Adversarial Networks, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2020.
5. Oscar Koller, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Hermann Ney, Richard Bowden, Weakly Supervised Learning with Multi-Stream CNN-LSTM-HMMs to Discover Sequential Parallelism in Sign Language Videos, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2019.
6. Terry Windeatt, Cemre Zor, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Approximation of Ensemble Boundary using Spectral Coefficients, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Volume 30, Number 4, 2019.
7. M. Amaç Güvensan, A. Oğuz Kansız, Necati Cihan Camgöz, H. İrem Türkmen, A. Gökhan Yavuz, M. Elif Karsıgil, An Energy-Efficient Multi-Tier Architecture for Fall Detection on Smartphones, Sensors, Volume 17, Issue 7, 1487, 2017.

Workshop Papers

1. Ryan Wong, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Learnt Contrastive Concept Embeddings for Sign Recognition, IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2023.
2. Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Is context all you need? Scaling Neural Sign Language Translation to Large Domains of Discourse, IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2023.
3. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Skeletal Graph Self-Attention: Embedding a Skeleton Inductive Bias into Sign Language Production, 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology, 2022.
4. Ryan Wong, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Hierarchical I3D for Sign Spotting, 17th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW), 2022.
5. Tao Jiang, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Skeletor: Skeletal Transformers for Robust Body-Pose Estimation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021.
6. Amit Moryossef, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Joe Dinn, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Tao Jiang, Annette Rios, Mathias Müller, Sarah Ebling, Evaluating the Immediate Applicability of Pose Estimation for Sign Language Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021.
7. Matthew Vowels, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Shadow-Mapping for Unsupervised Neural Causal Discovery, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021.
8. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Gül Varol, Samuel Albanie, Neil Fox, Richard Bowden, Andrew Zisserman, Kearsy Cormier, SLRTP 2020: The Sign Language Recognition, Translation & Production Workshop, 16th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW), 2020.
9. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Oscar Koller, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden, Multi-channel Transformers for Multi-articulatory Sign Language Translation, 16th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW), 2020.
10. Oğulcan Özdemir, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Lale Akarun, BosphorusSign22k Sign Language Recognition Dataset, 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, 2020.
11. Kearsy Cormier, Neil Fox, Bencie Woll, Andrew Zisserman, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, ExTOL: Automatic recognition of British Sign Language using the BSL Corpus, International Workshops and Symposia on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT), 2019.
12. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden, Particle Filter based Probabilistic Forced Alignment for Continuous Gesture Recognition, IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2017.
13. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Simon Hadfield, Oscar Koller, Richard Bowden, Using Convolutional 3D Neural Networks for User-Independent Continuous Gesture Recognition, IEEE 23rd International Conference of Pattern Recognition Workshops (ICPRW), 2016.
14. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Lale Akarun, Sign Language Recognition for Assisting the Deaf in Hospitals, 7th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU), 2016.
15. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Vitomir Štruc, Berk Gökberk, Lale Akarun, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Facial Landmark Localization in Depth Images using Supervised Ridge Descent, IEEE 15th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2015.
16. Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ahmet Alp Kındıroğlu, Lale Akarun, Gesture Recognition using Template Based Random Forest Classifiers, 13th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW), 2014.

Book Chapters

1. Sarah Ebling, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Use of New Technologies in L2 Signed Language Assessment, The Handbook of Language Assessment Across Modalities, Oxford University Press, 2021.
2. Sarah Ebling, Phuong Nguyen, Volker Hegelheimer, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Discussion on New Technologies in Spoken and Signed Language Testing, The Handbook of Language Assessment Across Modalities, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Preprints

1. Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Using an LLM to Turn Sign Spottings into Spoken Language Sentences, arXiv:2403.10434, 2024.
2. Benjamin Saunders, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Richard Bowden, Everybody Sign Now: Translating Spoken Language to Photo Realistic Sign Language Video, arXiv:2011.09846, 2020.

Technical Reports

1. Samuel Albanie, Gül Varol, Liliane Momeni, Triantafyllos Afouras, Andrew Brown, Chuhan Zhang, Ernesto Coto, Necati Cihan Camgöz, Ben Saunders, Abhishek Dutta, Neil Fox, Richard Bowden, Bencie Woll, Andrew Zisserman, Signer Diarisation in the Wild, Technical Report, 2021.

Thesis

• Necati Cihan Camgöz, Neural Sign Language Recognition and Translation, PhD Thesis, University of Surrey, 2020.
• Necati Cihan Camgöz, Human-Computer Interaction Platform for the Hearing Impaired in Healthcare and Finance Applications, MSc Thesis, Boğaziçi University, 2016.