An Isolated-Signing RGBD Dataset of 100 American Sign Language Signs Produced by Fluent ASL Signers

Saad Hassan, Larwan Berke, Elahe Vahdani, Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian, Matt Huenerfauth


Abstract
We have collected a new dataset consisting of color and depth videos of fluent American Sign Language (ASL) signers performing sequences of 100 ASL signs from a Kinect v2 sensor. This directed dataset had originally been collected as part of an ongoing collaborative project, to aid in the development of a sign-recognition system for identifying occurrences of these 100 signs in video. The set of words consist of vocabulary items that would commonly be learned in a first-year ASL course offered at a university, although the specific set of signs selected for inclusion in the dataset had been motivated by project-related factors. Given increasing interest among sign-recognition and other computer-vision researchers in red-green-blue-depth (RBGD) video, we release this dataset for use by the research community. In addition to the RGB video files, we share depth and HD face data as well as additional features of face, hands, and body produced through post-processing of this data.
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2020.signlang-1.14
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Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch
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SignLang
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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89–94
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English
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Saad Hassan, Larwan Berke, Elahe Vahdani, Longlong Jing, Yingli Tian, and Matt Huenerfauth. 2020. An Isolated-Signing RGBD Dataset of 100 American Sign Language Signs Produced by Fluent ASL Signers. In Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives, pages 89–94, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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An Isolated-Signing RGBD Dataset of 100 American Sign Language Signs Produced by Fluent ASL Signers (Hassan et al., SignLang 2020)
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