Egocentric Arts and Crafts Video Data

Egocentric arts and crafts data is real-world video of a person doing studio art work while wearing the capture rig: mixing paint and applying it to canvas, sketching an outline and painting a wall, inking a plate and pulling prints, or shaping material into a three-dimensional form. The footage shows the hands, the tools and the work surface from the head-mounted viewpoint. Each episode follows the Firsthand episode schema, with ten streams synced under 2 ms. Which streams a head-mounted phone populates, and which the rig adds, is confirmed in the spec.

Teams search for it as arts and crafts robot training data, a craft task video dataset, egocentric drawing and painting data and custom fine-motor task data collection. They all describe demonstrations of hand work, collected to a written spec. This page covers only what the Firsthand site states and marks everything else as Not stated.

The site states four rows in its commercial task catalog, all in the Art Studio (painting, sculpture, printmaking) environment: "Canvas painting" (Medium), "Mural work" (Medium), "Printmaking" (Hard) and "Sculpting" (Hard). All four are Available on request and list the same capture modes.

Drawing as a task of its own has no row. The only sketching wording is inside the mural row, "Sketch the outline on the wall". A buyer who needs drawing on paper writes it into the spec, because a catalog row is a starting vocabulary, not a fixed menu. Media, materials and any step beyond the stated wording are Not stated.

The canvas row reads "Mix paint on a palette and apply it to canvas with brushes and knives", and is rated Medium. The mural row reads "Sketch the outline on the wall and paint large areas and details with rollers and brushes", and is also rated Medium.

Both wordings are ordered: mix, then apply; sketch, then paint large areas, then details. The two rows differ in scale and in surface, a canvas against a wall. This page quotes the tools exactly as the rows name them and adds no others. Paint types, canvas or wall sizes, brush counts and stroke counts are Not stated. Painting and coating of building surfaces is a separate topic with its own page.

The printmaking row reads "Ink the plate or screen, position paper and pull prints through the press", and is rated Hard. The sculpting row reads "Shape clay, stone or wood with hands and tools into a three-dimensional form", and is also rated Hard. They are the two highest ratings on the site.

Printmaking is worded as a sequence: ink, position, pull. Sculpting names materials and an outcome rather than a sequence, so how many passes, which tools and what final form are all Not stated. The wording says only that the wearer works with the hands and with tools.

The Creative Workshops & Crafts sector holds several other studios. Pottery & Ceramics Studio, Glass & Mosaic Studio and Leathercraft Workshop each have their own environment and their own data page, and Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Woodcraft & Carving and Textile Arts & Stitching are further environments in the same sector. Painting and priming walls with rollers and brushes also appears under construction, where it is a trade task.

The table below sets them side by side. This page covers only the four Art Studio rows, and the site treats each neighbour as its own environment.

The environment is listed with the examples "Artist studio, canvas painting, sculpting, mural work, printmaking", under the Creative Workshops & Crafts sector. That describes a working studio, not a staged set. The site states that egocentric capture happens in real kitchens, workplaces and streets.

Whether capture happens at a buyer’s own studio or workshop is Not stated, and so are the number of sites, any city or region, and any named studio. Environment, access and schedule are agreed in the written spec, so raise a site-access need before the spec is signed.

In the phone mode, a head-mounted phone records first-person video of real work on site. In the rig mode, a multiview rig adds synchronized third-person angles when the spec asks for them. Every row lists both, and the catalog does not say which applies to which row. Camera count, resolution, frame rate and mounting position are Not stated beyond that.

Each episode follows the Firsthand episode schema: ten streams synced under 2 ms, with RGB, depth, 3D hand pose with per-joint visibility, contact and grasp events, and frame-accurate action segments. The site also states a 200 Hz 6-DoF IMU among its sensors. For arts and crafts, action segments are where a spec marks each step: the mix, the stroke, the inking, the pull and the shaping. Contact events mark when a hand meets a tool, the material or the work surface.

Not stated: whether depth and hand pose are populated in the phone mode, and whether a result is labeled as a success or quality field. Task duration, the number of episodes or sites, and robot results are Not stated too.

The site gives no technical analysis of arts and crafts, so this page makes no claim about robot results. What the row wording shows is hand work with a tool against a surface, where the surface changes as the work goes on: a bare canvas, an inked plate, a lump of material becoming a form. That is a different data shape from moving rigid objects between places.

The site rates the four rows Medium, Medium, Hard and Hard, which is the only statement on difficulty. It states no success or quality label, so this page makes no claim that any episode shows work done well, only that each row names a step sequence a spec can capture.

Delivery formats are RLDS, LeRobot and WebDataset, plus HDF5, zarr and Rerun .rrd. Arts and crafts episodes use the same schema as every other Firsthand collection, so a loader that reads another Firsthand dataset reads this one without changes. The format table below sets each format against what its official documentation states.

Every batch is validated against signed accept criteria before it ships, with a reject log, and delivery is rolling, per validated batch. Rejected items are recaptured at our cost, and billing is per validated hour.

Every episode links to a signed contributor release through a documented consent chain, and the consent record is part of the delivery. The release also covers bystanders: contributors confirm they have not knowingly recorded anyone who has not signed it, and where an unidentified person appears, the footage is de-identified or discarded.

A vision model runs on every frame at ingest, flagging faces, heads, licence plates and any legible screen or document. Those regions are irreversibly blurred, and a human reviewer confirms the result before footage ships. If the reviewer is unsure a region is fully covered, the episode is held or discarded, never downgraded and shipped. The site lists no contributor-identifying field among delivered fields.

Where coverage is already deep, the first validated batch lands in a median of 48 hours from signed spec. Thin environments typically take three to four weeks, because vetting operators there is the bottleneck, and we quote that up front. All four Art Studio rows are Available on request, so each is scoped and recruited to your spec first.

The site also states program milestones. A pilot reaches its first delivery in two to three weeks, and a standing program reaches full rate in four to six weeks. Those assume capture coverage is already in place. A batch size and a later-batch turnaround are Not stated, so both are quoted against your spec.

You describe the studio steps, media and materials your policy needs. We turn that into a written spec covering tasks, environments, capture tier, annotation depth and accept criteria, then quote reach, timeline and price before any capture begins. This is the custom egocentric data collection route that every Firsthand task family follows.

A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec and accept criteria before you scale. Every collection ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license, with a reject log and signed accept criteria on every batch.