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What's next after signspell: open-sourcing a gesture recognition framework

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Thanks so much for all the support on signspell! 🙌

One thing building this taught me: almost every gesture/action recognition project ends up rebuilding the same infra from scratch — capturing frames, labelling landmarks, exporting clean datasets for training.

So I'm working on open-sourcing that layer as a standalone framework/toolkit, so anyone can go from "I have an idea for a gesture-based app" to a labeled, training-ready dataset without reinventing the pipeline each time.

Still early, but if that's useful to you or your team, I'd love to hear what you'd want out of it. More soon!

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i really like this direction. i've seen so many projects spend weeks rebuilding the same infrastructure before they can even test an idea. id a toolkit removes that overhead, i think it'll hep more people focus on the actual product instead of the setup.

 Thanks .
Working towards it.

i've always thought data preparation is one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI projects. this seems like a practical way to reduce that friction. i'd definitely be interested in seeing how the labeling workflow comes together.

 Yes ofcourse.
Will definitely invite for a feedback before launch .

One question I'd have is how extensible you're planning to make it. if developers can plug in their own preprocessing, labeling strategies, or export formats, I could see this fitting into a lot of existing workflows.

 Yes ofcourse,
I am planning to move in this direction. Let us see.

The biggest challenge I have experienced isnt collecting data its keeping annotations consistent over time. if your toolkit can simplify that workflow, I think it will be useful beyond gesture recognition alone.

 Sure, Alksander.
Will invite you for a feedback session before launch .

This solves a problem that doesn't get enough attention. most discussions focus on model performance, while dataset creation is where teams often spend the majority of their time. curious to see how you're approaching that part.

Sure. Working on it.

I appreciate that you are open sourcing the infrastructure instead of just another finished application. Thats often where the biggest long term value gets created for developers building in this space.

 Yes Sure. Thanks .