How2Sign: A large-scale multimodal dataset for continuous American sign language

Abstract

One of the factors that have hindered progress in the areas of sign language recognition, translation, and production is the absence of large annotated datasets. Towards this end, we introduce How2Sign, a multimodal and multiview continuous American Sign Language (ASL) dataset, consisting of a parallel corpus of more than 80 hours of sign language videos and a set of corresponding modalities including speech, English transcripts, and depth. A three-hour subset was further recorded in the Panoptic studio enabling detailed 3D pose estimation. To evaluate the potential of How2Sign for real-world impact, we conduct a study with ASL signers and show that synthesized videos using our dataset can indeed be understood. The study further gives insights on challenges that computer vision should address in order to make progress in this field. Dataset website: http://how2sign.github.io/ ; This work received funding from Facebook through gifts to CMU and UPC; through projects TEC2016-75976-R, TIN2015- 65316-P, SEV-2015-0493 and PID2019-107255GB-C22 of the Spanish Government and 2017-SGR-1414 of Generalitat de Catalunya. This work used XSEDE's "Bridges" system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (NSF award ACI- 1445606). Amanda Duarte has received support from la Caixa Foundation (ID 100010434) under the fellowship code LCF/BQ/IN18/11660029. Shruti Palaskar was supported by the Facebook Fellowship program. ; Peer Reviewed ; Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::10 - Reducció de les Desigualtats ; Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::4 - Educació de Qualitat::4.5 - Per a 2030, eliminar les disparitats de gènere en l'educació i garantir l'accés en condicions d'igualtat a les persones vulnerables, incloses les persones amb discapacitat, els pobles indígenes i els nens i nenes en situacions de vulnerabilitat, a tots els nivells de l'ensenyament i la formació professional ; Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::10 - Reducció de les Desigualtats::10.2 - Per a 2030, potenciar i promoure la inclusió social, econòmica i ...