We introduce a large image dataset HaGRID (HAnd Gesture Recognition Image Dataset) for hand gesture recognition (HGR) systems. You can use it for image classification or image detection tasks. Proposed dataset allows to build HGR systems, which can be used in video conferencing services (Zoom, Skype, Discord, Jazz etc.), home automation systems, the automotive sector, etc.

HaGRID size is 716GB and dataset contains 552,992 FullHD (1920 × 1080) RGB images divided into 18 classes of gestures. Also, some images have no_gesture class if there is a second free hand in the frame. This extra class contains 123,589 samples. The data were split into training 92%, and testing 8% sets by subject user_id, with 509,323 images for train and 43,669 images for test.

The dataset contains 34,730 unique persons and at least this number of unique scenes. The subjects are people from 18 to 65 years old. The dataset was collected mainly indoors with considerable variation in lighting, including artificial and natural light. Besides, the dataset includes images taken in extreme conditions such as facing and backing to a window. Also, the subjects had to show gestures at a distance of 0.5 to 4 meters from the camera.

Example of sample and its annotation:

For more information see our arxiv paper HaGRID - HAnd Gesture Recognition Image Dataset.

Clone and install required python packages:

git clone https://github.com/hukenovs/hagrid.git
# or mirror link:
cd hagrid
# Create virtual env by conda or venv
conda create -n gestures python=3.9 -y
conda activate gestures
# Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

docker build -t gestures .
docker run -it -d -v $PWD:/gesture-classifier gestures

We split the train dataset into 18 archives by gestures because of the large size of data. Download and unzip them from the following links:

train_val annotations: ann_train_val

Subsample has 100 items per gesture.

HaGRID 512px - lightweight version of the full dataset with max_side = 512p

or by using python script

python download.py --save_path <PATH_TO_SAVE> \
                   --train \
                   --test \
                   --subset \
                   --annotations \
                   --dataset

Run the following command with key --subset to download the small subset (100 images per class). You can download the train subset with --trainval or test subset with --test. Download annotations for selected stage by --annotations key. Download dataset with images by --dataset.

usage: download.py [-h] [--train] [--test] [--subset] [-a] [-d] [-t TARGETS [TARGETS ...]] [-p SAVE_PATH]

Download dataset...

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --train               Download trainval set
  --test                Download test set
  --subset              Download subset with 100 items of each gesture
  -a, --annotations     Download annotations
  -d, --dataset         Download dataset
  -t TARGETS [TARGETS ...], --targets TARGETS [TARGETS ...]
                        Target(s) for downloading train set
  -p SAVE_PATH, --save_path SAVE_PATH
                        Save path

We provide some pre-trained models as the baseline with the classic backbone architectures and two output heads - for gesture classification and leading hand classification.

Also we provide some models to solve hand detection problem.

However, if you need a single gesture, you can use pre-trained full frame classifiers instead of detectors. To use full frame models, set the configuration parameter full_frame: True and remove the no_gesture class

You can use downloaded trained models, otherwise select a classifier and parameters for training in default.yaml. To train the model, execute the following command:

python -m classifier.run --command 'train' --path_to_config <PATH>

python -m detector.run --command 'train' --path_to_config <PATH>

Every step, the current loss, learning rate and others values get logged to Tensorboard. See all saved metrics and parameters by opening a command line (this will open a webpage at localhost:6006):

tensorboard --logdir=experiments

Test your model by running the following command:

python -m classifier.run --command 'test' --path_to_config <PATH>

python -m detecotr.run --command 'test' --path_to_config <PATH>

python demo.py -p <PATH_TO_CONFIG> --landmarks

python demo_ff.py -p <PATH_TO_CONFIG> --landmarks

The annotations consist of bounding boxes of hands in COCO format [top left X position, top left Y position, width, height] with gesture labels. Also, annotations have 21 landmarks in format [x,y] relative image coordinates, markups of leading hands (left or right for gesture hand) and leading_conf as confidence for leading_hand annotation. We provide user_id field that will allow you to split the train / val dataset yourself.

"0534147c-4548-4ab4-9a8c-f297b43e8ffb": {
  "bboxes": [
    [0.38038597, 0.74085361, 0.08349486, 0.09142549],
    [0.67322755, 0.37933984, 0.06350809, 0.09187757]
  ],
  "landmarks"[
    [
      [
        [0.39917091, 0.74502739],
        [0.42500172, 0.74984396],
        ...
      ],
        [0.70590734, 0.46012364],
        [0.69208878, 0.45407018],
        ...
    ],
  ],
  "labels": [
    "no_gesture",
    "one"
  ],
  "leading_hand": "left",
  "leading_conf": 1.0,
  "user_id": "bb138d5db200f29385f..."
}

• Key - image name without extension
• Bboxes - list of normalized bboxes [top left X pos, top left Y pos, width, height]
• Labels - list of class labels e.g. like, stop, no_gesture
• Landmarks - list of normalized hand landmarks [x, y]
• Leading hand - right or left for hand which showing gesture
• Leading conf - leading confidence for leading_hand
• User ID - subject id (useful for split data to train / val subsets).

We annotate 21 hand keypoints by using MediaPipe open source framework. Due to auto markup empty lists may be present in landmarks.

python -m converters.hagrid_to_yolo --path_to_config <PATH>

def img2label_paths(img_paths):
    img_paths = list(img_paths)
    # Define label paths as a function of image paths
    if "subsample" in img_paths[0]:
        return [x.replace("subsample", "subsample_labels").replace(".jpg", ".txt") for x in img_paths]
    elif "train_val" in img_paths[0]:
        return [x.replace("train_val", "train_val_labels").replace(".jpg", ".txt") for x in img_paths]
    elif "test" in img_paths[0]:
        return [x.replace("test", "test_labels").replace(".jpg", ".txt") for x in img_paths]

python -m converters.hagrid_to_coco --path_to_config <PATH>

This work is licensed under a variant of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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• Alexander Kapitanov
• Andrey Makhlyarchuk
• Karina Kvanchiani
• Aleksandr Nagaev

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You can cite the paper using the following BibTeX entry:

@article{hagrid,
    title={HaGRID - HAnd Gesture Recognition Image Dataset},
    author={Kapitanov, Alexander and Makhlyarchuk, Andrey and Kvanchiani, Karina},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08219},
    year={2022}
}