SignLanguage-Dataset-Hub

License and Attribution

This document provides license and citation information for datasets referenced in this hub. Always check the original source for the most up-to-date license terms.

Repository License

This repository is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Demo Data (Included in Repo)

BdSL-Sensor-Glove Demo Data

Location: data/bdsl/BdSL-Sensor-Glove/
License: CC BY 4.0
Samples: 4,824 recordings, 36 gestures, 11 channels
Maintainer: Rudra Sarker, SUST

American Sign Language (ASL)

MS-ASL

Creator: Microsoft Research
License: Research Use Only (not for commercial use)
Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/ms-asl/

Citation:

@inproceedings{vaezijoze2019msasl,
title={MS-ASL: A Large-Scale Data Set for the American Sign Language},
author={Vaezi Joze, Hamid and others},
booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year={2019}
}

WLASL

Creator: Dongxu Li et al.
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://github.com/dxli94/WLASL

Citation:

@inproceedings{li2020wlasl,
title={Word-level Deep Sign Language Recognition from Video},
author={Li, Dongxu and others},
booktitle={WACV},
year={2020}
}

How2Sign

Creator: Amanda Duarte et al. (UC San Diego)
License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Research Use)
Source: https://how2sign.github.io/

Citation:

@inproceedings{duarte2021how2sign,
title={How2Sign: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Continuous American Sign Language},
author={Duarte, Amanda and others},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2021}
}

OpenASL

Creator: Bowen Shi et al. (TTIC/University of Chicago)
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Source: https://github.com/chevalierNoir/OpenASL

Citation:

@inproceedings{shi2022open,
author={Shi, Bowen and Brentari, Diane and Shakhnarovich, Greg and Livescu, Karen},
title={Open-Domain Sign Language Translation Learned from Online Video},
booktitle={EMNLP},
year={2022}
}

ASLLVD

Creator: Vassilis Athitsos et al. (Boston University / Rutgers)
License: Research Use (see terms at http://dai.cs.rutgers.edu/dai/s/signbank)
Source: https://www.bu.edu/asllrp/av/dai-asllvd.html

Citation:

@inproceedings{athitsos2008asllvd,
title={The American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset},
author={Athitsos, Vassilis and others},
booktitle={IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communication},
year={2008}
}

AUTSL

Creator: Özcan Ciga et al. (Ankara University)
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00932

Citation:

@article{ciga2020autsl,
title={A Large Scale Multi-modal Turkish Sign Language Dataset and Baseline Methods},
author={Ciga, Özcan and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00932},
year={2020}
}

ASL-MNIST

Creator: Kaggle Community
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/datamunge/sign-language-mnist

ASL Alphabet

Creator: Kaggle Community (grassknoted)
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/grassknoted/asl-alphabet

ChaLearn LAP

Creator: Sergio Escalera et al. (UAB / ChaLearn)
License: Research Use
Source: https://chalearnlap.cvc.uab.cat/

Citation:

@inproceedings{escalera2021chalearn,
title={ChaLearn Looking at People Challenge 2021: Multi-modal Sign Language Recognition},
author={Escalera, Sergio and others},
booktitle={CVPR Workshops},
year={2021}
}

ASL-LEX

Creator: Naomi Caselli et al. (Boston University)
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://asl-lex.org/

Citation:

@article{caselli2017asllex,
title={ASL-LEX: A lexical database for American Sign Language},
author={Caselli, Naomi K. and others},
journal={Behavior Research Methods},
volume={49},
number={4},
year={2017}
}

ASL Citizen

Creator: Bram De Meulder et al.
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://aslcitizen.org/

Citation:

@inproceedings{demeulder2022aslcitizen,
title={ASL Citizen: A Multimodal Dataset for Deaf-Hearing AI Collaboration},
author={De Meulder, Bram and others},
booktitle={LREC},
year={2022}
}

Bangla Sign Language (BdSL)

BdSL47

Creator: Mohammad Afzal et al.
License: CC BY 4.0
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1vhhmgqwk
Source: https://zenodo.org/record/7067906

Citation:

@dataset{afzal2022bdsl47,
title={BdSL47: A complete dataset of sign alphabet and digits of Bangla Sign Language},
author={Afzal, Mohammad and others},
year={2022},
publisher={Zenodo}
}

KU-BdSL

Creator: Islam et al. (Khulna University)
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/scpvm2nbkm/1

Citation:

@dataset{islam2023kubdsl,
title={KU-BdSL: Khulna University Bengali Sign Language dataset},
author={Islam, Mohammad and others},
year={2023},
publisher={Mendeley Data}
}

Ban-Sign-Sent-9K

License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Source: https://huggingface.co/datasets/banglagov/Ban-Sign-Sent-9K-V1

British Sign Language (BSL)

BOBSL

Creator: Samuel Albanie et al. (Oxford VGG)
License: BBC License (registration required)
Source: https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/bobsl/

Citation:

@inproceedings{albanie2021bobsl,
title={BBC-Oxford British Sign Language Dataset},
author={Albanie, Samuel and others},
booktitle={ECCV},
year={2022}
}

BSL Corpus

Creator: BSL Corpus Project (UCL DCAL)
License: Research Use (registered access)
Source: https://bslcorpusproject.org/

Citation:

@article{schembri2011bslcorpus,
title={Building the British Sign Language Corpus},
author={Schembri, Adam and others},
journal={Language Documentation & Conservation},
year={2011}
}

German Sign Language (DGS)

RWTH-PHOENIX-2014

Creator: Oscar Koller et al. (RWTH Aachen)
License: Research Use (registration required)
Source: https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~koller/RWTH-PHOENIX/

Citation:

@article{koller2015phoenix,
title={Continuous Sign Language Recognition: Towards Large Vocabulary Statistical Recognition Systems},
author={Koller, Oscar and Forster, Jens and Ney, Hermann},
journal={Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
volume={141},
year={2015}
}

RWTH-PHOENIX-2014T

Creator: Necati Cihan Camgöz et al.
License: Research Use (registration required)
Source: https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~koller/RWTH-PHOENIX-2014-T/

Citation:

@inproceedings{camgoz2018phoenixt,
title={Neural Sign Language Translation},
author={Camgöz, Necati Cihan and Hadfield, Simon and Koller, Oscar and Ney, Hermann and Bowden, Richard},
booktitle={CVPR},
year={2018}
}

DGS Corpus

Creator: Universität Hamburg
License: Research Use
Source: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/dgs-korpus/

Indian Sign Language (ISL)

INCLUDE

Creator: Advaith Sridhar et al. (IISc Bangalore)
License: Research Use
Source: Contact IISc Bangalore (website currently down)

Citation:

@inproceedings{sridhar2020include,
title={INCLUDE: A Large Scale Dataset for Indian Sign Language Recognition},
author={Sridhar, Advaith and others},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia},
year={2020}
}

ISL-Alphabet

Creator: Ayesha Tasnim
License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://github.com/ayeshatasnim-h/Indian-Sign-Language-dataset

Arabic Sign Language (ArSL)

ArSL2018

License: CC BY 4.0
Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ahmedkhan123/arabic-sign-language

Multilingual

SIGN-Hub

Creator: EU SIGN-Hub Consortium
License: Research Use
Source: https://www.sign-hub.eu/

Citation:

@inproceedings{hanke2016signhub,
title={The SIGN-HUB Project: Building a Research Infrastructure for Sign Languages},
author={Hanke, Thomas and others},
booktitle={LREC},
year={2016}
}

Dicta-Sign

Creator: EU Dicta-Sign Consortium
License: Research Use
Source: EU project (archived)

Citation:

@inproceedings{mattheyses2012dictasign,
title={Dicta-Sign: Sign Language Recognition, Animation and Production},
author={Mattheyses, Wesley and others},
booktitle={LREC},
year={2012}
}

SpreadTheSign

Creator: European Sign Language Centre
License: Personal use allowed; research/commercial requires permission
Source: https://www.spreadthesign.com/

License Summary

License Type	Datasets	Notes
CC BY 4.0	20+	Free for commercial and non-commercial with attribution
CC BY-NC 4.0	5+	Free for non-commercial use with attribution
Research Use Only	15+	Academic/research only, may require registration
Custom/Institutional	10+	Contact the institution for terms
Personal Use	5+	Dictionaries, not for redistribution

Questions About Licensing?

For questions about specific dataset licenses, contact the original creators (linked above)
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Maintainer: Rudra Sarker — rudrasarker125@gmail.com

Last updated: March 2026. All information should be verified with original sources.

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