Sign Language Recognition Datasets

Sign language datasets

Comparison

id Name Country Classes Subjects Samples Data Language level Type Annotations Availability
1 DGS Kinect 40 Germany 40 15 3000 Word Videos, multiple angles Contact Author
2 RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather Germany 1200 9 45760 Sentence Videos Face, hand, end/start (unfinished) Publicly Available
3 SIGNUM Germany 450 25 33210 920gb Sentence Videos Publicly Available, 1TB, contact author to obtain hard drive
4 GSL 20 Greek 20 6 ~840 Word Contact Author
5 Boston ASL LVD USA 3300+ 6 9800 Word Videos, multiple angles hand,end/start Publicly Available
6 PSL Kinect 30 Poland 30 1 30×10=300 ~1.2gb Word Videos, depth from Kinect camera Publicly Available
7 PSL ToF 84 Poland 84 1 84×20=1680 ~33gb Word Videos, ToF camera Publicly Available
8 PSL 101 Poland ? ? ? ? ? ? Contact Author
9 LSA64 signs Argentina 64 10 3200 20gb Word Videos Publicly Available
  1. DGS Kinect 40 (no website)
    1. Sign Language Recognition using Sub-Units, 2012, Cooper et al.
    2. Sign Language Recognition using Sequential Pattern Trees 2012, Ong et al.
    3. Sign Spotting using Hierarchical Sequential Patterns with Temporal Intervals 2014, Ong et al.
  2. RWTH-PHOENIX
    1. Dataset paper 2012, Forster et al.
    2. Dataset extensions paper 2014, Forster et al
    3. Continuous sign language recognition: Towards large vocabulary statistical recognition systems handling multiple signers 2015, Koller et al.
      4.May the force be with you: Force-aligned signwriting for automatic subunit annotation of corpora 2013, Koller et al.
  3. SIGNUM
    1. Continuous sign language recognition: Towards large vocabulary statistical recognition systems handling multiple signers 2015, Koller et al.
  4. Greek Sign Language (no website)
    1. Sign Language Recognition using Sub-Units, 2012, Cooper et al.
    2. Sign Language Recognition using Sequential Pattern Trees 2012, Ong et al.
    3. Sign Spotting using Hierarchical Sequential Patterns with Temporal Intervals 2014, Ong et al.
  5. Boston ASLLVD
  6. PSL Kinect 30
    1. Polish sign language words recognition with Kinect 2013, Oszust et al.
    2. Some Approaches to Recognition of Sign Language Dynamic Expressions with Kinect 2014, Oszust et al.
    3. Recognition of Hand Gestures Observed by Depth Cameras 2015, Kapuscinski et al.
  7. PSL ToF 84
    1. Polish sign language words recognition with Kinect 2013, Oszust et al.
    2. Recognition of Hand Gestures Observed by Depth Cameras 2015, Kapuscinski et al.
  8. PSL 101 (no website)
    1. Modelling and Recognition of Signed Expressions Using Subunits Obtained by Data–Driven Approach 2012, Oszust et al.
  9. LSA64

Handshape datasets (for sign language)

Comparison

id Name Country Classes Subjects Samples Data Type Availability
1 ASL Fingerspelling A USA 24 5 131000 images (depth+rgb) Free download
2 ASL Fingerspelling B USA 24 9 images (depth) Free download
3 LSA16 handshapes Argentina 16 10 800 7mb images (rgb) Free download
4 PSL Fingerspelling ToF Poland 16 3 960 ~290mb images (depth) Free download
  1. ASL Fingerspelling A
    1. Spelling It Out: Real-Time ASL Fingerspelling Recognition. 2011, Pugeault et al.
  2. ASL Fingerspelling B
    1. Spelling It Out: Real-Time ASL Fingerspelling Recognition. 2011, Pugeault et al.
    2. Recognition of Hand Gestures Observed by Depth Cameras. 2015, Kapuscinski et al.
  3. PSL Fingerspelling ToF
    1. Recognition of Hand Gestures Observed by Depth Cameras. 2015, Kapuscinski et al.
  4. LSA16 handshapes
    1. Handshape recognition for Argentinian Sign Language using ProbSom. 2016, Ronchetti et al.

Other info

Kevin Murphy mantains a similar list for Action Recognition Datasets.