Egocentric Hair Salon and Beauty Task Video Data

It is first-person video of a person doing salon, barbershop or beauty-studio work, recorded from a head-mounted camera, with two wrist cameras for a closer view of the hands. The contributor is a paid, consented person following a written skill spec, not an actor and not a robot.

The point of the data is what the hands do: sectioning, cutting, mixing and applying colour, washing and blow-drying, filing and polishing nails, and wiping down the station afterwards. It is labeled so each step can be sliced out. Where the site states nothing, a table below says "Not stated".

The task catalog has a Beauty & Personal Care sector with one environment, Hair Salon, Barbershop & Beauty Studio. Its examples read "Hair salon, barbershop, nail studio, beauty spa -- cutting, coloring, styling, nail treatments, workspace sanitation." It lists 13 task rows, all with the capture setup "Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig."

Five rows are hair work, and all five are in active collection: "Cut and style hair using scissors, clippers, and combs," "Hair coloring," "Hair Cutting & Styling" (described as "Cutting, washing, blow-drying and styling hair in a salon or barbershop"), "Hair styling," and "Wash and blow-dry hair using shampoo stations and a blow dryer." Three rows are nail work: "Manicure & Pedicure Service" is ready to deploy, and "Nail treatments" and "Shape and polish nails using files, buffers, and polish" are in active collection.

Four rows are skin and beauty services: "Basic Skin & Beauty Treatments," "Eyelash & Eyebrow Services" and "Makeup Application" are available on request, and "Beauty Services / Personal Care" is ready to deploy. The last row, "Workspace sanitation," covers sweeping hair and disinfecting tools and chairs between clients, and is in active collection. The catalog lists no row that names shaving or beard work.

An episode is one contributor performing one task from the skill spec, recorded with ten hardware-synchronized streams that line up within the 2 ms ceiling the site documents. The rig is a head-mounted global-shutter 4K/60 camera with a 120 degree lens, two wrist-mounted 1080p/60 cameras, an active-stereo depth sensor at 848×480/30 and 200 Hz 6-DoF IMUs.

Every episode carries int64 nanosecond timestamps per stream, camera intrinsics and extrinsics, hand joints for both hands at 21 joints each, 24 body joints, instance masks and action segments. The annotation record also carries contact events.

The site does not say what counts as the object in a contact event, or how long a given row runs, so settle both in the spec and the quote.

The unit of labeling is the action segment. The site states a taxonomy of 97 verbs and 512 nouns, annotated start and end to the frame and human-reviewed. A spec that says "style the hair" gives you one long segment. A spec that names section, cut, blow-dry and finish gives you a sequence you can slice by step.

Data is delivered in RLDS, LeRobot, WebDataset, HDF5, zarr or Rerun .rrd. Converters ship as readable source, not a binary, so you can retarget the schema to your own loader.

You receive a perpetual, irrevocable, buyer-owned commercial license, the consent artefacts for the batch and a data card that lists jurisdictions of capture. Billing is per validated hour, meaning footage that passed sync and QA against your spec; rejected episodes and recaptures are never billed. The site states no task-success label for salon work.

It supplies first-person human demonstrations of fine hand work, with the hands, the tool and the station in view. The site’s guides explain that human footage has no robot joint-angle log, so wrist pose supplies the coarse trajectory and hand pose the fine grasp shape.

Firsthand captures people, not robots. Using these episodes for a specific robot means your own retargeting step, and the site states no robot result, benchmark or teleoperation data for salon tasks. It states no force or tactile reading either; contact is described only by contact events.

The catalog lists these rows under a commercial setting and the environment pages describe real work in Western commercial settings. The site does not state which salons, studios or countries host capture, or how many, and it states no capture at a buyer’s own salon or facility. The spec settles location and access.

Only what the site already states applies to privacy. Every participant signs a written release granting commercial training rights before capture begins. Faces and licence plates are detected and irreversibly blurred, a human reviewer confirms that no un-consented person is identifiable in any frame, audio is scrubbed of identifying speech, and a clip where a bystander cannot be de-identified is discarded rather than shipped. Consented subjects stay in frame.

The site does not state how a salon client is handled beyond that general bystander rule, or whether a client is in frame for a given row. Settle both in the spec. This is not legal advice, and the executed agreement controls.

The site states one published timeline: from a signed spec to a first validated batch, a median of 48 hours in environments where coverage is already deep, and typically three to four weeks where coverage is thin because operator vetting is the bottleneck.

Eight of the 13 salon rows are in active collection, two are ready to deploy and three are available on request; the status table above gives the site’s meaning for each. The site does not say which timeline applies to which row and promises nothing faster, so ask when you request the quote.

Start with the free, ungated sample pack to check the loader and the label quality, then move to a Spec Pilot: a small first batch against the written spec that proves the fill rate and the reject rate on your conditions before you scale.

A good salon brief names the setting, the order of steps, how each step starts and ends, and what counts as a reject. The site’s skill-spec guide walks through that structure. Then request a custom dataset.