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RWTH-PHOENIX Handshapes dev set (RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather 2014 MS Handshapes dev set)
We manually labelled 3359 images from the RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather 2014 Development set.
Some of the 45 encountered pose-independent hand shape classes are depicted in Figure 1. They show the large intra-class variance and the strong similarity between several classes. The hand shapes occur with different frequency in the data. The distribution of counts per class can be verified in Figure 2 showing that the top 14 hand shapes explain 90% of the annotated samples.
For our works on hand shape recognition we follow the hand shape taxonomy by the danish sign language lexicon team (Jette H. Kristoffersen and Thomas Troelsgård, Center for Tegnsprog, Denmark http://www.tegnsprog.dk), which amounts to over 60 different hand shapes, often with very subtle differences such as a flexed versus straight thumb. The employed classes are shown in Table1.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Hand Gesture Recognition | RWTH-PHOENIX Handshapes dev set | DenseNet Accuracy 96.05 | A comparison of small sample methods for Handshape Recognition | midusi/cacic2019-handshapes | 2 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| A comparison of small sample methods for Handshape Recognition | 1 | 1 | 1 Apr 2023 | not harvested |
| A Study of Convolutional Architectures for Handshape Recognition applied to Sign Language | 1 | 1 | 1 Oct 2017 | not harvested |
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