FORM is a gesture annotation scheme designed to capture the kinematic information in gesture from videos of speakers. FORM encodes the "phonetics" of gesture by giving geometric descriptions of location and movement of the right and left arms. This publication is a detailed database of gesture-annotated videos stored in the Anvil and FORM file formats.

The FORM project is currently funded through a NSF grant.

FORM gesture data has applications in statistical natural language processsing, gesture recognition and generation, information extraction from video, and human-computer interaction.