Kinect Numbers and Letters Hand Gestures Datasets
Description
The Letters and Numbers Hand Gestures (LNHG) Database is a small dataset intended for gesture recognition.
The dataset contains 36 classes. The 36 classes consist of the arabic digits (0, 1, ..., 9) (10 classes) and latin/roman alphabet letters (a, b, ..., z) (26 classes).
There are 10 samples per digit gesture and 20 samples per letter gesture, for a total of 10*10+26*20 = 100+520 = 620 samples.
Samples
The following image shows the 2D projection of 3D segmented hand gestures. The 100 samples of digits are shown. Some digits may appear distorted because of the projection from 3D to 2D:
Recording
The gestures were all performed by the same subject using the left hand and recorded with Microsoft Kinect’s SDK.
The recording of all samples was done at an average of 28 fps.
In the recording of the different samples of each gesture the orientation of the subject with respect to the camera was maintained, but the samples were performed starting from different positions and with different sizes.
Data format
The segmented gesture data consists of a csv file in which each line corresponds to a sample, in the following format:
gesture_class_name,gesture_class_code,x_1,y_1,z_1,x_2,y_2,z_2,...,x_n
where x_i,y_i,z_i are the x, y and z coordinates of the hand in frame i in Kinect’s virtual space. Each sample may have a different number of frames, according to the duration of the gesture and the frame rate of the recording. The samples are ordered by gesture_class_code.
Dataset files
You can download all the gesture data (620 samples), or the letters (520 samples) and numbers (100 samples) separately. Note that the ids/labels for the combined dataset go from 0 to 35, while the individual datasets have their own labels (0 to 25 for the letters, and 0 to 9 for the digits).
Loading the dataset with Matlab/Octave
We provide Matlab/Octave code for reading the segmented gesture data into a cell array of matrices, where each element of the cell array xs corresponds to a sample, represented by a matrix of 3xNi, where Ni is the number of frames recorded for that sample.
The vector ys contains the gesture_class_code for each of the samples and gesture_names is a cell array of 10 elements with the name of each gesture (ie: 'zero', 'one').
Citing
If you use the dataset, we kindly ask you to cite A novel competitive neural classifier for gesture recognition with small training sets:
@inproceedings{quiroga2013novel,
title={A novel competitive neural classifier for gesture recognition with small training sets},
author={Quiroga, Facundo and Corbal{\'a}n, Leonardo C{\'e}sar},
booktitle={XVIII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computaci{\'o}n (CACIC)},
year={2013}
}
License 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The dataset is made available strictly for academic purposes. No derivative works or commercial use are allowed. Please contact the authors if you are unsure about what constitutes fair use under this license, or need to use the dataset under a different license.
Contact
{fquiroga}-at-lidi.info.unlp.edu.ar
III-LIDI Informatics Institute Informatics Faculty UNLP