This paper presents a new 3D motion capture dataset of Czech Sign Language (CSE). Its main purpose is to provide the data for further analysis and data-based automatic synthesis of CSE utterances. The content of the data in the given limited domain of weather forecasts was carefully selected by the CSE linguists to provide the necessary utterances needed to produce any new weather forecast. The dataset was recorded using the state-of-the-art motion capture (MoCap) technology to provide the most precise trajectories of the motion. In general, MoCap is a device capable of accurate recording of motion directly in 3D space. The data contains trajectories of body, arms, hands and face markers recorded at once to provide consistent data without the need for the time alignment.
Keywords
Sign language corpus mining
Language and the Brain – Experimental methods using or producing sign language resources
Language and the Brain – Sign language processing applications
In the Service of the Language Community – What is the value of sign language resources for the sign language community?
@inproceedings{jedlicka:20027:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Jedli{\v c}ka, Pavel and Kr{\v n}oul, Zden{\v e}k and Kanis, Jakub and {\v Z}elezn{\'y}, Milo{\v s}},
title = {Sign Language Motion Capture Dataset for Data-driven Synthesis},
pages = {101--106},
editor = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2020} 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives},
maintitle = {12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2020)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Marseille, France},
day = {16},
month = may,
year = {2020},
isbn = {979-10-95546-54-2},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/20027.pdf}
}