BCM19: Multi-View RGB-Data of Body Poses in Social Conflict Situations
Identifying relevant body communication markers that indicate whether a social conflict situation evolves towards escalation or de-escalation is relevant for example in the development of training applications for de-escalative communication, as developed in the project K3VR for German police forces.
Purpose
Body Communication Markers 19 (BCM19) is a collection of body poses that are relevant in the escaltion or deescalation of a conflict situation between police and citizen with a focus on police body poses. The body poses in BCM19 were identified together with social sciensts and police training experts based on the literature and experience. An evaluation of the different body poses is part of a running project.
Updates
Data uploaded on 31.01.2025
Data
Citation
"Tomotaki-Dawoud, K., Nierula, B., Siewe, F. T., Koch, T., Meyer, D. J., Bock, A., Heinze, H., Knuth, D., Martin, D., Schander, J., Hilsmann, A., Eisert P., and Bosse, S. (2024, December 11-13). Multi-View Gesture Recognition in Conflict Situations. IEEE-ISM2024, Tokyo, Japan."
Dataset
BMC19 consists of 19 body poses which can be described as
- Routine and allert body poses
Calming and autonomy-enhancing body poses
2. Commanding body poses
a. Direct commands
b. Open treats
3. Space-controlling body poses
4. Reactive body poses
Participants
Total number of human participants included in BCM19: 26
Participants (13 females, age range 23-42 years) volunteered to the study and were instructed to reenact the 19 different body poses displayed above.
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Because of the sensitive nature of this BCM19, which includes images of participants that cannot be anonymized, we cannot post full data publicly. With a data use agreement, data will be made available to researchers. Please write an email to ics-data@hhi.fraunhofer.de providing the filled-in and signed data use agreement.