American Sign Language video lexicon

This website describes our ongoing work at Boston University and the University of Texas at
Arlington to create an online ASL video lexicon. The data here is collected as part of the NSF funded effort NSF0705749. This project is a joint collaboration between,

• Stan Sclaroff , Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
• Carol Neidle, Professor of French and Linguistics, Boston University
• Vassilis Athitsos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas, Arlington

If you use this data in published work, please use the following to cite our project,

V. Athitsos, C. Neidle, S. Sclaroff, J. Nash, A. Stefan, Q. Yuan and A. Thangali, The ASL Lexicon Video Dataset, CVPR 2008 Workshop on Human Communicative Behaviour Analysis (CVPR4HB’08)

Isolated sign videos

Videos of isolated signs from our capture sessions using sign glosses in the Gallaudet dictionary are below. Lossless compressed videos are available for three views: front, side and face region. QuickTime format (with MPEG4 encoding) videos are available for the first few sessions and will be updated as gloss annotations are prepared.

The lossless compressed videos are about 1Gb each. If you wish to download a large number of these files, please contact us and we can determine a suitable way for data transfer to not overload the fileserver. A C++ library to read frames for this video format is available here.

• QuickTime videos with sign gloss annotation
  
  sessions 1 & 2
  
  
• Lossless compressed videos (videos are about 1Gb each)
  
  sessions 1 2 3 4 5 6
  

• National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources
  
  
• SignStream: A Multimedia Tool for Language Research
  

For questions regarding data capture and file formats:

athitsos AT uta.edu & sclaroff AT cs.bu.edu

For sign language and lingustics related queries: carol AT bu.edu