Welcome to the 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.
Paper at Springer (you can read it at fulltext)
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: Demo video at youtube
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