Hand Posture and Gesture Datasets

S�bastien Marcel - Hand Posture and Gesture Datasets

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Static Hand Posture Databases

Jochen Triesch Static Hand Posture Database

pgm images, 10 hand postures (a, b, c, d, g, h, i, l, v, y), 24 persons, 3 backgrounds (light, dark, complex). More details in the paper below.  Download here (7.5 Mb). Evaluation protocol for the Jochen Triesch Static Hand Posture Database (41 Kb)

Jochen Triesch and Christoph von der Malsburg
Robust Classification of Hand Postures against Complex Backgrounds,
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition,
pp 170-175,  IEEE Computer Society Press,
Killington, Vermont, USA, October 14-16, 1996.
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Jochen Triesch Static Hand Posture Database II

Images in tiff format. More details in the paper below.  Download here (32 Mb).

Jochen Triesch and Christoph von der Malsburg
A System for Person-Independent Hand Posture Recognition against Complex Backgrounds,
IEEE PAMI,  vol. 23, no. 12, p. 1449-1453 (2001).
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Sebastien Marcel Static Hand Posture Database

Images in pnm format. 6 hand postures (a, b, c, point, five, v), about 10 persons. More details in the paper below. Download here the  training set 100.5Mb, and the  test set 16.3Mb.

S. Marcel. 
Hand posture recognition in a body-face centered space. 
In  Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI), 1999. 
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Dynamic Hand Posture Databases

Peipa Hand Tracking

1 video sequence (50 individual pgm images). Found on  Peipa archive in 1998/99. Download  here (2.6Mb).

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Sebastien Marcel Dynamic Hand Posture Database

4 hand gestures (Clic, Rotate, Stop-Grasp-Ok, No), image sequences. Download  here (41.4Mb).

Clic sequence

StopGraspOk sequence

Rotate sequence

No sequence

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Dynamic Hand Gestures Databases

Sebastien Marcel Dynamic Hand Gesture Database

2D hand trajectories in a normalized body-face space, 4 hand gestures, about 10 persons, many times.
Download here (229 Kb).

S. Marcel , O. Bernier, J-E. Viallet, and D. Collobert. 
Hand gesture recognition using Input/Ouput Hidden Markov Models . 
In  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (AFGR) , 2000. 

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http://www.idiap.ch/resource/gestures/