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RWTH-Weather-Phoenix 2014

This archive contains two sets of the RWTH-Weather-Phoenix 2014 corpus

the multisigner set
the signer independent set.

It is released under non-commercial cc 4.0 license with attribution (see attachment)

If you use this data in your research, please cite:

O. Koller, J. Forster, and H. Ney. Continuous sign language recognition: Towards large vocabulary statistical recognition systems handling multiple signers. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, volume 141, pages 108-125, December 2015.

and

Koller, Zargaran, Ney. "Re-Sign: Re-Aligned End-to-End Sequence Modeling with Deep Recurrent CNN-HMMs" in CVPR 2017, Honululu, Hawaii, USA.

See README files in subfolders for more information.

CHANGELOG

v1 Aug 20 2016, initial version of the archive. multisigner setup
v2 Apr 21 2017, signer independent SI5 subset, added caffe models and automatic frame-alignment
v3 Nov 3 2017, added language models and complete set of hyper parameters to reproduce the published results