Crowdsourcing Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: FluentSigners-50

Medet Mukushev, Aigerim Kydyrbekova, Alfarabi Imashev, Vadim Kimmelman, Anara Sandygulova

Abstract
This paper presents the methodology we used to crowdsource a data collection of a new large-scale signer independent dataset for Kazakh-Russian Sign Language (KRSL) created for Sign Language Processing. By involving the Deaf community throughout the research process, we firstly designed a research protocol and then performed an efficient crowdsourcing campaign that resulted in a new FluentSigners-50 dataset. The FluentSigners-50 dataset consists of 173 sentences performed by 50 KRSL signers for 43,250 video samples. Dataset contributors recorded videos in real-life settings on various backgrounds using various devices such as smartphones and web cameras. Therefore, each dataset contribution has a varying distance to the camera, camera angles and aspect ratio, video quality, and frame rates. Additionally, the proposed dataset contains a high degree of linguistic and inter-signer variability and thus is a better training set for recognizing a real-life signed speech. FluentSigners-50 is publicly available at https://krslproject.github.io/fluentsigners-50/
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2022.lrec-1.271
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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2541–2547
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.271
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Medet Mukushev, Aigerim Kydyrbekova, Alfarabi Imashev, Vadim Kimmelman, and Anara Sandygulova. 2022. Crowdsourcing Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: FluentSigners-50. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2541–2547, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Crowdsourcing Kazakh-Russian Sign Language: FluentSigners-50 (Mukushev et al., LREC 2022)
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