Egocentric & real-world capture
Purpose-collected, head- and chest-mounted first-person video from working environments that cannot be collected anywhere else.
Open-air market trading, street food preparation, roadside vehicle repair, artisan workshops, smallholder agriculture and dense two-wheeler traffic — captured to a brief, from the operator's own point of view.
Every session runs a synchronised second angle, clap-synced in frame, because multi-camera coverage of the same subject is worth materially more than either angle alone. Every clip carries a written context layer describing task, intent, objects handled and — where it happens — the sequence in which something failed and the operator changed method.
This is the line a laboratory commissions directly rather than buys off a shelf, and the one where geography is a hard constraint rather than a preference. The open egocentric corpora that exist are industrial interiors running a fixed process; there is no archive of this material, because it was never filmed.
Specification
- Format
- 3840×2160, 30 fps (60 for motion), H.264, no HDR
- Audio
- 48 kHz stereo, lavalier on subject
- Angles
- Head or chest primary + static wide, clap-synced
- Labels
- Task, intent, objects, hands-visible, failure events, step timings
- Consent
- Signed release plus on-camera verbal, per subject
- Lead time
- Two weeks from brief for a fifty-hour pilot
Other supply lines
Cleared African archive — radio, broadcast, film
Decades of in-language radio, broadcast and film sitting in archives that were never contracted for machine learning, in a market with no aggregator working it.
In-language conversational audio
Unscripted, multi-speaker, overlapping speech in languages with effectively no licensed commercial corpus — from cleared archive and from purpose-built collection.
Instrumented & sensor-layered capture
The premium tier of embodied data — multi-rig, force-instrumented capture of manual work, stood up against a funded brief.
Enterprise & operational documents
Company archives, contracts, correspondence, forms, technical manuals and printed matter — the document layer that extraction and document-understanding models are starved of outside Europe and North America.
Property & transaction records
Listings, valuations, title histories and completed-deal records from agencies, developers and estate surveyors — the structured layer under African urban property, which no dataset currently describes.
De-identified institutional & financial records
Transaction, statement and ledger records supplied by the institution that holds them, de-identified before they leave the building, and licensed for model training under a data-sharing agreement.