Published March 11, 2015 | Version v1
Dataset Open

SignWriting Database

  • 1. Universidade Federal do Paraná

Description

The SW database is composed of 7997 binary images divided into 103 classes, which were defined after a joint study with the Brazilian deaf community. For more details, please refer to [1,2]. Up to now, 30 people, deaf and non-deaf, contributed to the database. 

The SW Database may be used for non-commercial research provided you acknowledge the source of the image by citing the following paper in publications about your research:

  • D. Stiehl, L. S. Oliveira, C. Guimarães, A. S. Britto Jr, Towards a SignWriting Recognition System, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), Nancy, France, 2015.

Related papers

[1] C. Guimarães, J. F. Guardezi, and S. Fernandes. Sign language writing acquisition – technology for a writing system. In 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, pages 120–129. IEEE, 2014.

[2] C. Guimarães, S. Fernandes, J. F. Guardezi, and L. S. Oliveira. Deaf culture and sign language writing system: a database for a new approach to writing system recognition technology. In 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, pages 3368–3377, 2014.

 

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