BOBSL

BBC-Oxford British Sign Language

Dataset Information
Modalities
Videos
Introduced
2021
License
Homepage

Overview

BOBSL is a large-scale dataset of British Sign Language (BSL). It comprises 1,962 episodes (approximately 1,400 hours) of BSL-interpreted BBC broadcast footage accompanied by written English subtitles. From horror, period and medical dramas, history, nature and science documentaries, sitcoms, children’s shows and programs covering cooking, beauty, business and travel, BOBSL covers a wide range of topics. The dataset features a total of 39 signers. Distinct signers appear in the training, validation and test sets for signer-independent evaluation.

Description from: BOBSL: BBC-Oxford British Sign Language Dataset

Variants: BOBSL

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Sign Language Recognition StepNet StepNet: Spatial-temporal Part-aware Network for … 2022-12-25

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset: