diff --git a/src/dataset.py b/src/dataset.py
index 1a08b04..1263764 100644
--- a/src/dataset.py
+++ b/src/dataset.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 import torch
-import pandas as pd
-from PIL import Image
 import json
 from keypoint_extractor import KeypointExtractor
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from identifiers import LANDMARKS
+import numpy as np
 
 class WLASLDataset(torch.utils.data.Dataset):
     def __init__(self, json_file: str, missing: str, keypoint_extractor: KeypointExtractor, subset:str="train", keypoints_identifier: dict = None, transform=None):
@@ -50,10 +49,15 @@ class WLASLDataset(torch.utils.data.Dataset):
         # filter the keypoints by the identified subset
         if self.keypoints_to_keep:
             keypoints_df = keypoints_df[self.keypoints_to_keep]
+        
+        current_row = np.empty(shape=(keypoints_df.shape[0], keypoints_df.shape[1] // 2, 2))
+        for i in range(0, keypoints_df.shape[1], 2):
+            current_row[:, i//2, 0] = keypoints_df.iloc[:,i]
+            current_row[:, i//2, 1] = keypoints_df.iloc[:,i+1]
 
-        # TODO: convert keypoints to tensor and return
+        label = self.data[video_id]["action"][0]
 
-k = KeypointExtractor("data/videos/")
-d = WLASLDataset("data/nslt_100.json", "data/missing.txt", k, keypoints_identifier=LANDMARKS)
+        # data to tensor
+        data = torch.from_numpy(current_row)
 
-d.__getitem__(0)
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+        return data, label
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diff --git a/src/identifiers.py b/src/identifiers.py
index d301e5d..c1f8465 100644
--- a/src/identifiers.py
+++ b/src/identifiers.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ LANDMARKS = {
     "right_foot_index": 32,
 
     # Left Hand Landmarks
-    "left_wrist": 33,
+    "left_wrist2": 33,
     "left_thumb_cmc": 34,
     "left_thumb_mcp": 35,
     "left_thumb_ip": 36,
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ LANDMARKS = {
     "left_pinky_tip": 53,
 
     # Right Hand Landmarks
-    "right_wrist": 54,
+    "right_wrist2": 54,
     "right_thumb_cmc": 55,
     "right_thumb_mcp": 56,
     "right_thumb_ip": 57,
diff --git a/src/keypoint_extractor.py b/src/keypoint_extractor.py
index 93804d6..a0ee964 100644
--- a/src/keypoint_extractor.py
+++ b/src/keypoint_extractor.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class KeypointExtractor:
         # check if cache file exists and return
         if os.path.exists(self.cache_folder + "/" + video + ".npy"):
             # create dataframe from cache
-            return pd.DataFrame(np.load(self.cache_folder + "/" + video + ".npy"), columns=self.columns)
+            return pd.DataFrame(np.load(self.cache_folder + "/" + video + ".npy", allow_pickle=True), columns=self.columns)
 
         # open video
         cap = cv2.VideoCapture(self.video_folder + video)
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ class KeypointExtractor:
         :return: the keypoints and the frame with keypoints on if draw is set to True
         :rtype: np.ndarray
         """
-        print("Extracting keypoints from frame")
         # Convert the BGR image to RGB and process it with MediaPipe Pose.
         results = self.holistic.process(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB))
 
diff --git a/src/model.py b/src/model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2aa1db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+### SPOTER model implementation from the paper "SPOTER: Sign Pose-based Transformer for Sign Language Recognition from Sequence of Skeletal Data"
+
+import copy
+import torch
+
+import torch.nn as nn
+from typing import Optional
+
+
+def _get_clones(mod, n):
+    return nn.ModuleList([copy.deepcopy(mod) for _ in range(n)])
+
+
+class SPOTERTransformerDecoderLayer(nn.TransformerDecoderLayer):
+    """
+    Edited TransformerDecoderLayer implementation omitting the redundant self-attention operation as opposed to the
+    standard implementation.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, d_model, nhead, dim_feedforward, dropout, activation):
+        super(SPOTERTransformerDecoderLayer, self).__init__(d_model, nhead, dim_feedforward, dropout, activation)
+
+        del self.self_attn
+
+    def forward(self, tgt: torch.Tensor, memory: torch.Tensor, tgt_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+                memory_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, tgt_key_padding_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+                memory_key_padding_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None) -> torch.Tensor:
+
+        tgt = tgt + self.dropout1(tgt)
+        tgt = self.norm1(tgt)
+        tgt2 = self.multihead_attn(tgt, memory, memory, attn_mask=memory_mask,
+                                   key_padding_mask=memory_key_padding_mask)[0]
+        tgt = tgt + self.dropout2(tgt2)
+        tgt = self.norm2(tgt)
+        tgt2 = self.linear2(self.dropout(self.activation(self.linear1(tgt))))
+        tgt = tgt + self.dropout3(tgt2)
+        tgt = self.norm3(tgt)
+
+        return tgt
+
+
+class SPOTER(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Implementation of the SPOTER (Sign POse-based TransformER) architecture for sign language recognition from sequence
+    of skeletal data.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, num_classes, hidden_dim=55):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.row_embed = nn.Parameter(torch.rand(50, hidden_dim))
+        self.pos = nn.Parameter(torch.cat([self.row_embed[0].unsqueeze(0).repeat(1, 1, 1)], dim=-1).flatten(0, 1).unsqueeze(0))
+        self.class_query = nn.Parameter(torch.rand(1, hidden_dim))
+        self.transformer = nn.Transformer(hidden_dim, 10, 6, 6)
+        self.linear_class = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, num_classes)
+
+        # Deactivate the initial attention decoder mechanism
+        custom_decoder_layer = SPOTERTransformerDecoderLayer(self.transformer.d_model, self.transformer.nhead, 2048,
+                                                             0.1, "relu")
+        self.transformer.decoder.layers = _get_clones(custom_decoder_layer, self.transformer.decoder.num_layers)
+
+    def forward(self, inputs):
+        h = torch.unsqueeze(inputs.flatten(start_dim=1), 1).float()
+
+        h = self.transformer(self.pos + h, self.class_query.unsqueeze(0)).transpose(0, 1)
+        res = self.linear_class(h)
+
+        return res
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diff --git a/src/train.py b/src/train.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44c7f34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/train.py
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+import os
+import argparse
+import random
+import logging
+import torch
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.optim as optim
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
+from torchvision import transforms
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from keypoint_extractor import KeypointExtractor
+from identifiers import LANDMARKS
+from model import SPOTER
+from dataset import WLASLDataset
+
+def train():
+    random.seed(379)
+    np.random.seed(379)
+    os.environ['PYTHONHASHSEED'] = str(379)
+    torch.manual_seed(379)
+    torch.cuda.manual_seed(379)
+    torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(379)
+    torch.backends.cudnn.deterministic = True
+    g = torch.Generator()
+    g.manual_seed(379)
+
+    device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+
+    spoter_model = SPOTER(num_classes=100, hidden_dim=2*75)
+    spoter_model.train(True)
+    spoter_model.to(device)
+
+    criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
+    optimizer = optim.SGD(spoter_model.parameters(), lr=0.001, momentum=0.9)
+    scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.ReduceLROnPlateau(optimizer, factor=0.1, patience=5)
+
+    # TODO: create paths for checkpoints
+
+    # TODO: transformations + augmentations
+
+    k = KeypointExtractor("data/videos/")
+
+    train_set = WLASLDataset("data/nslt_100.json", "data/missing.txt", k, keypoints_identifier=LANDMARKS, subset="train")
+    train_loader = DataLoader(train_set, shuffle=True, generator=g)
+
+    val_set = WLASLDataset("data/nslt_100.json", "data/missing.txt", k, keypoints_identifier=LANDMARKS, subset="val")
+    val_loader = DataLoader(val_set, shuffle=True, generator=g)
+
+    test_set = WLASLDataset("data/nslt_100.json", "data/missing.txt", k, keypoints_identifier=LANDMARKS, subset="test")
+    test_loader = DataLoader(test_set, shuffle=True, generator=g)
+
+
+    train_acc, val_acc = 0, 0
+    losses, train_accs, val_accs = [], [], []
+    lr_progress = []
+    top_train_acc, top_val_acc = 0, 0
+    checkpoint_index = 0
+
+    for epoch in range(100):
+
+        # train
+        for i, (inputs, labels) in enumerate(train_loader):
+            inputs = inputs.squeeze(0).to(device)
+            labels = labels.to(device)
+
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+            outputs = spoter_model(inputs).expand(1, -1, -1)
+            loss = criterion(outputs[0], labels)
+            loss.backward()
+            optimizer.step()
+
+            _, predicted = torch.max(outputs.data, 1)
+            train_acc = (predicted == labels).sum().item() / labels.size(0)
+
+            losses.append(loss.item())
+            train_accs.append(train_acc)
+
+            if i % 100 == 0:
+                print(f"Epoch: {epoch} | Batch: {i} | Loss: {loss.item()} | Train Acc: {train_acc}")
+
+        # validate
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            for i, (inputs, labels) in enumerate(val_loader):
+                inputs = inputs.to(device)
+                labels = labels.to(device)
+
+                outputs = spoter_model(inputs)
+                _, predicted = torch.max(outputs.data, 1)
+                val_acc = (predicted == labels).sum().item() / labels.size(0)
+
+                val_accs.append(val_acc)
+
+        scheduler.step(loss)
+
+        # save checkpoint
+        if val_acc > top_val_acc:
+            top_val_acc = val_acc
+            top_train_acc = train_acc
+            checkpoint_index = epoch
+            torch.save(spoter_model.state_dict(), f"checkpoints/spoter_{epoch}.pth")
+
+        print(f"Epoch: {epoch} | Train Acc: {train_acc} | Val Acc: {val_acc}")
+        lr_progress.append(optimizer.param_groups[0]['lr'])
+
+train()
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