Egocentric Pottery and Ceramics Video Data

Egocentric pottery and ceramics video data is real-world, first-person video of studio ceramics work. It is recorded from the potter viewpoint, with depth, 3D hand pose, contact events and frame-accurate action segments aligned on one hardware clock. The tasks it covers are the ones the site states in its task catalog: wheel throwing, hand-building, ceramic sculpting, glazing, and kiln loading and firing.

Ceramics is hands-and-material work from start to finish. The deformable object page covers cloth, bedding and bags, the tool use page covers hand-tool and tool-mediated manipulation, and the baking and dough handling page covers dough. This page covers the studio sequence for clay, from the first lump on the wheel to a loaded kiln.

The site states pottery in its task catalog, in a Pottery & Ceramics Studio environment under the Creative Workshops & Crafts sector. The environment lists five rows: Ceramic sculpting, Glazing, Hand-building, Kiln loading and firing, and Wheel throwing. Its examples are pottery studio, wheel throwing, hand-building, glazing, kiln firing and ceramic sculpting.

Every row uses the same capture mode, a head-mounted phone or a multiview rig, and every row is listed as Available on request. Two rows are rated Hard and three are rated Medium.

The catalog row reads "Centre clay on the wheel, open and pull walls and trim the finished form." It is the stated throwing task, and it runs from centring through opening and pulling to trimming, so one row covers the whole throwing sequence.

The row is rated Hard. It names a wheel and clay and no more. Clay types, wheel models and piece sizes are Not stated, so they are set in the written spec.

The catalog row reads "Roll slabs and coils and join them by hand into a vessel or form." It covers forming without a wheel, where the potter rolls, cuts and joins pieces of clay with the hands.

The row is rated Medium. The site does not state how many pieces a session covers or how long a build takes, so the session plan is agreed in the spec.

The catalog row reads "Model and carve clay into a sculptural form with hands and loop tools." It covers modelling and carving a form, which is a different sequence from throwing a vessel on the wheel.

The row is rated Hard. Sculptural form sizes and the carving tools used are Not stated, so the spec sets which forms and tools the session uses.

The catalog row reads "Mix glaze, dip or brush it onto bisque pieces and wipe the foot clean." It covers the surface step after the first firing, from mixing the glaze to cleaning the base of the piece.

The row is rated Medium. Glaze recipes and colours are Not stated, and the site states no outcome label for how a glaze comes out, so those are defined in the spec if your policy needs them.

The catalog row reads "Stack pieces on kiln shelves, set the firing programme and unload when cool." It covers loading the kiln, setting the firing programme and unloading, so it is the end of the studio sequence.

The row is rated Medium. Kiln models and firing temperatures are Not stated, and so are firing outcomes. The site does not state how the firing programme is shown on screen, so raise it in the spec if your policy needs it.

A Sculpting row in the Art Studio environment reads "Shape clay, stone or wood with hands and tools into a three-dimensional form." It names clay, but it also names stone and wood and sits in a painting, sculpture and printmaking environment, so this page lists it as a neighbour and does not count it as a pottery task.

Generic crafts, dough and deformable-object lines on the site do not name clay, pottery or ceramics. They have their own pages and are not counted here.

The catalog rates each task row, and the pottery rows are Hard for Wheel throwing and Ceramic sculpting and Medium for Glazing, Hand-building and Kiln loading and firing. The rating describes the task as the catalog lists it.

The site does not state skill levels for the potters who record the data, how experienced they are or how many take part. Contributor skill and the number of potters are Not stated, and they are agreed in the spec.

The catalog places all five rows in the Pottery & Ceramics Studio environment. The site names no studio, city, school or potter, and it does not state capture at a customer own studio or facility.

Environment, access and schedule are agreed in the spec. The number of studios is Not stated.

A head-mounted phone records the first-person view of real work on site, and a multiview rig adds synchronized third-person angles when the spec asks for them. Both are the capture modes the catalog lists for every pottery row.

The site does not state a camera count, resolution or frame rate for ceramics. Throughput is Not stated, so session length and volume are quoted against your spec.

Each episode follows the Firsthand episode schema: ten streams synced under 2 ms, with head and wrist RGB, depth, 3D hand pose with per-joint visibility, contact and grasp events, and frame-accurate action segments. For ceramics, hand pose tracks how the fingers work the piece, contact events mark when fingers meet clay or a glazed surface, and action segments mark each step.

Object labels use the terms your spec sets. Force or tactile data, and material-deformation or shape-outcome labels, are Not stated. They are defined in the spec if your policy needs them.

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

Every batch is validated against signed accept criteria before it ships, with a reject log, and delivery is rolling, per validated batch.

Every episode links to a signed contributor release through a documented consent chain, and the consent record is part of the delivery. Faces, plates and screens are detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, and a reviewer confirms the result before anything ships. The anonymization record is delivered with the data.

The site states no further privacy rule specific to studios, so this page makes none. The consent chain, the blur pass and the anonymization record are the stated privacy steps.

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.

On-demand top-ups run against the same spec and accept criteria after each training run. All five pottery rows are Available on request, so the site states no capture timeline for them beyond a quote against your spec.

You describe the pieces, steps and sequence 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.

A Spec Pilot, a small and fast first batch, can prove the spec and accept criteria before you scale. Billing is per validated hour, a reject log ships with every batch, rejected items are recaptured at our cost, and every collection ships under a perpetual, buyer-owned commercial license.