Sign language images dataset from Mexican sign language

Abstract

Sign language is a complete language with its own gram- matical rules, akin to any spoken language used world- wide. It comprises two main components: static words and ideograms. Ideograms involve hand movements and contact with various parts of the body to convey meaning. Variations in sign language are evident across different countries, neces- sitating comprehensive documentation of each country’s sign language. In Mexico, there is a lack of formal datasets for Mexican Sign Language (MSL), to solve this issue we struc- ture a dataset of 249 words of the MSL divided into 17 sub- sets, we use background and clothes of black color to en- hance the areas of interest (hands and face), for each word we use an average of 11 individuals, from every video se- quence we obtain an average of 15 frames from each indi- vidual, obtaining 31442 jpg images.