Gesture Recognition for Indian Sign Language using Kinect
Indian Sign Language static gesture depth dataset
Download the dataset from the following link.
Please cite the following paper if you use this dataset in your research.
ANSARI, Z.A. & HARIT, G. Sadhana (2016) 41: 161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-015-0405-3
You can read it for free at http://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/sadh/041/02/0161-0182
This dataset consists of depth and RGB images (taken by Kinect XBox 360) of 140 sign language gestures of the Indian Sign Language taken from 18 subjects. There are a total of 5041 images each of resolution 640x480 in the depth and the RGB subsets. Each depth image has a corresponding RGB image.
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oqD-_UCHxQ
This work was a part of my Master's thesis at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (2013).
Files have the name format: 'USER-XY-ABC-VZ.png' or 'USER-XY-ABC-VZ.txt' XY, ABC, VZ are numbers. XY represents volunteer number. ABC represents symbol number. VZ represents trial number of the corresponding volunteer. These numbers may be of 1, 2 or 3 digits. Trial numbers may be discontinuous.
User Number of Valid images
1 863
2 237
3 251
4 252
5 261
6 246
7 241
8 256
9 240
10 239
11 217
12 258
13 231
14 219
15 230
16 259
17 261
18 280
Symbols' meanings are provided in the vocabulary folder according to their number.
Each depth image is a matrix of size 640x480 having values in the range [0,2047] which correspond to real world depths according to the Kramer formula [1].
[1] Kramer J, Parker M, Herrera D, Burrus N and Echtler F 2012 Hacking the kinect. Apress