Enhanced YOLO with spectral recalibration for accurate and real-time sign language detection
摘要
Sign language serves as a vital communication medium for individuals with hearing impairments, yet conventional convolutional architectures often suffer from significant feature degradation, particularly in high-frequency details and multi-scale feature representation. This paper introduces a novel method, YOLO-FPD, which leverages Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to construct a dual-domain decoupled feature representation framework. A Parallel Frequency-domain Attention Module (PFMLP) is integrated to dynamically enhance key responses in both frequency and spatial domains, while a Dynamic Heterogeneous Multi-scale Cross-stage Fusion Module (DHMCS-FM) is proposed to improve multi-scale and high-frequency gesture feature capture. Experimental results on public datasets demonstrate that YOLO-FPD achieves state-of-the-art accuracy (mAP@50 of 93.2% on the ASL dataset and 92.4% on the Expression dataset) while maintaining real-time performance, outperforming several mainstream models. Our approach not only addresses the challenges of high-frequency detail loss and multi-scale feature representation but also establishes a collaborative mechanism between frequency-domain and spatial-domain processing, paving the way for more robust and efficient sign language recognition systems. https://github.com/wtc0214/YOLO-FPD