Hand Posture and Gesture Datasets

Static Hand Posture Databases

• Jochen Triesch Static Hand Posture Database (7.5 Mb) : 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.
  

  
  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", (ps.gz) (pdf)
  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.
  

• Jochen Triesch Static Hand Posture Database II (32 Mb) : tiff images.
  
  Jochen Triesch and Christoph von der Malsburg
  "A System for Person-Independent Hand Posture Recognition against Complex Backgrounds", (pdf)
  IEEE PAMI,
  vol. 23, no. 12, p. 1449-1453 (2001).
  
• Sebastien Marcel Static Hand Posture Database (train set 100.5Mb, test set 16.3Mb) : pnm images, 6 hand postures (a, b, c, point, five, v), about 10 persons. More details in the paper below.
  

  
  Sébastien Marcel
  "Hand Posture Recognition in a Body-Face centered space" (Extended Abstract), (ps) (pdf)
  "Hand Posture Recognition in a Body-Face centered space" (Poster), (ps) (pdf)
  CHI'99 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems,
  Pittsburgh, PA USA, 15-20 mai 1999.
  

Dynamic Hand Posture Databases

• Hand Tracking (2.6Mb) : 1 video sequence (50 individual pgm images). Found on Peipa archive in 1998/99.
  

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• Sebastien Marcel Dynamic Hand Posture Database (41.4Mb) : 4 hand gestures (Clic, Rotate, Stop-Grasp-Ok, No), image sequences.
  

  Clic sequence

  StopGraspOk sequence

  Rotate sequence

  No sequence

Dynamic Hand Gesture Databases

• Sebastien Marcel Dynamic Hand Gesture Database (229 Kb) : 2D hand trajectories in a normalized body-face space, 4 hand gestures, about 10 persons, many times. Details in paper below.
  

  

  
  Sébastien Marcel, Olivier Bernier, Jean-Emmanuel Viallet et Daniel Collobert
  "Hand Gesture recognition using Input/Ouput Hidden Markov Models", (ps) (pdf)
  FG'2000 Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition,
  Grenoble, 28-30 mars 2000.