MySign: A High-Fidelity Motion-Capture Dataset for 3D Sign Generation in Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia

Jiayu Shen, Kalin Stefanov, Lay-Ki Soon, Vee Yee Chong, Alpha Agape Gopalai +1

Progress in 3D sign generation is constrained by the scarcity of high-fidelity 3D sign language datasets, a limitation that is particularly severe for under-resourced languages. We introduce MySign, the first motion-capture dataset for isolated signs in Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM). Its 5,000 samples cover 1,000 lexical items (glosses) and were produced by five Deaf native signers. Prior datasets that rely on SMPL-X parameters regressed from video provide pseudo-labels, which are often affected by depth ambiguity, inaccurate finger poses, and temporal jitter. MySign instead provides ground-truth SMPL-X sequences retargeted from recordings made with a motion-capture setup tailored for sign language; these sequences offer higher-fidelity motion, particularly in fine-grained hand and finger articulation. A controlled comparison on the same glosses and signers indicates that training on these sequences improves generation over training on such pseudo-labels. We establish MySign as a challenging benchmark for gloss-conditioned 3D sign generation: state-of-the-art models produce visually plausible outputs but fall short of the ground truth, most notably in fine-grained articulation,…