Stereo Garment Finishing and Pressing Data

It is first-person video of a person finishing garments: pressing seams and finished garments on an industrial iron or press, then folding or hanging them. It is recorded from their own point of view with two calibrated cameras, with hand pose and sensor streams alongside. Stereo describes the capture, and MCAP describes the container. They are separate choices.

The site does not state that stereo is already running on this row. The catalog lists a head-mounted phone with a multiview rig as its capture setup, so a stereo pair is a capture choice agreed in the skill spec and confirmed on a Spec Pilot. The data is human capture by paid, consented contributors, not robot or teleoperation data. The site does not state press or iron brands, garment counts, cycle times, throughput, or factory, brand or customer names, so this page promises none. Firsthand is not affiliated with Foxglove or the MCAP maintainers.

One, in the Textile & Apparel Production environment of the Manufacturing & Workshops sector. "Finishing and pressing" is rated Easy and described as "Press seams and finished garments on an industrial iron or press and fold or hang them." Its environment examples read "Garment factory, sewing workshop, fabric cutting facility, textile mill, fashion manufacturing".

The row is listed as Available on request. The site says nothing about delivered hours or delivered stereo footage for it, so this page claims none, and it does not describe the row as Active collection or Ready to deploy. The only tool the row names is an industrial iron or press, and the steps are pressing seams and finished garments, then folding or hanging them. The first table below reproduces the row as the catalog states it, beside two neighbouring pressing rows from other environments.

The stereo garment sewing and fabric cutting page covers the other production rows of the same environment, and lists this row only as one of four. The egocentric garment production page covers all four rows of the environment with egocentric catalog treatment and no stereo or MCAP treatment. The egocentric ironing and garment handling page covers pressing, hanging and sorting garments as first-person capture, and the stereo commercial laundry and linen page covers six laundry and hotel rows, including a steam press row, in stereo.

This page is the stereo and MCAP treatment of the single finishing and pressing row, with its own stream map and failure modes. The comparison table below sets the pages side by side.

Finishing is about where the cloth sits on the pressing surface, what the hands do to position it and where it goes when the press is done. Cloth also has no fixed shape, and it changes shape from frame to frame. A stereo pair recovers depth from the calibrated frame pair rather than from a standalone depth sensor, so the garment, the equipment and the hands share a frame. The site gives no depth accuracy figure for this row and no label for whether a seam is pressed or a garment is finished, so what a buyer does with that depth is their pipeline question.

A stereo pair adds depth, not a verdict on the garment. The site states 1080p per eye for dataset 06, and whether that suffices for fine seam detail is Not stated, so a spec should check it on a Spec Pilot. The site also states that Firsthand does not capture at a customer’s own facility.

The site states 3D hand pose of 21 joints per hand with a per-joint visibility flag, and contact and grasp events that mark when fingers meet a tool or an item. It describes pressing and hanging as two-handed steps where one hand positions the garment while the other works the press, the iron or the hanger, and the visibility flag is what carries it when fingers disappear under fabric.

The site does not say which hand holds the garment and which works the press on this row, how finely hand pose resolves cloth folds, or whether the garment, the iron or the press counts as the object for contact events. Settle those in the spec. Wrist cameras give a closer view of the hands, and a multiview rig adds synchronized third-person angles when the spec asks for them.

The site describes two stereo setups and does not say which one a garment finishing order uses. The hard-environments stack is a global-shutter 4K/60 head camera with a 120° lens, two 1080p/60 wrist cameras, a depth sensor at 848×480 and 30 fps, and 200 Hz 6-DoF IMUs. The off-the-shelf stereo head rig, dataset 06, is dual fisheye cameras at 1080p per eye, a 62 mm baseline, per-unit calibration, a 9-axis IMU and hand-tracking output.

Which rig, resolution and streams an order uses is Not stated on the site, and the third table below sets what is stated beside what is not. Intrinsics and extrinsics are re-solved at the start and end of every session, and streams are hardware-triggered onto one clock with a 2.0 ms cross-stream ceiling. Pressing station layout, lighting, equipment model and camera clearance are Not stated, so any requirement is settled in the spec.

MCAP is an open source container file format for multimodal log data, supporting multiple channels of timestamped pre-serialized data. It is serialization-agnostic, so messages can be Protobuf, DDS (CDR), ROS, JSON and more. Its design is row-oriented and append-only, it stores schemas alongside the data, and it offers an optional index plus optional LZ4 or Zstandard chunk compression.

Reader and writer libraries exist for C++, Go, Python, Rust, Swift and TypeScript, and the mcap CLI can inspect, merge and split files. The foxglove/mcap repository is MIT-licensed; that is the MCAP project licence, not the licence of a Firsthand delivery. The MCAP hub page and the glossary entry cover the format in full.

Firsthand offers MCAP delivery, and dataset 06 is stated as shipping as MCAP. For this row the site states hand pose, a stereo-derived depth stream with confidence maps, IMU, contact events, action segments, per-frame instance masks and one task instruction per episode elsewhere. What it does not state is which of those are channels in an MCAP file, how they are named, what encoding they use or at what rate.

No topic name, message schema or rate is stated on this page, and none should be assumed. Name the streams that matter in the skill spec and confirm them on a Spec Pilot batch. The fourth table below sets each stream beside what the site states about it.

Deformable fabric is the first risk. Cloth has no fixed shape, so the object being tracked changes between frames. The site states that clothing does not track well with masks propagated frame to frame, so deformable captures ship per-frame instance masks where the spec calls for them. It lists no seam, crease or pressed-or-not label, so what counts as a pressed seam or a finished garment is written into the spec up front.

Folding and hanging are the second. They are the closing steps of the row and a garment that is draped, hung or half pressed is the case the per-frame masks exist for. Action segments carry start, end, verb and noun, so a spec that names each step, such as press, fold or hang, gives a sequence that can be sliced by step. The site states no garment type, fold style or hanger type for this row.

Hand-garment occlusion and two-handed fabric handling are the third. Fabric, the iron or press and the other hand can hide the fingers that hold the cloth. The visibility flag on each joint is the answer the site gives, contact events mark when a hand takes hold of a garment or a tool, and a spec can ask for wrist views or a second angle. An episode is rejected when the manipulated object is out of frame for more than 15 percent of it.

Steam, glare and close working distance close the list. The site describes glossy or dark surfaces as places where a single camera loses information, and it states that depth degrades on wet and reflective surfaces and ships per-frame confidence maps so a buyer can mask rather than guess. How steam, a polished press surface or a bright work light affects a stereo pair is Not stated. The site describes the camera as sitting on the head, close to what a robot’s onboard camera would see over a pressing surface, but gives no depth figure at that distance. An episode is rejected when more than 35 percent of depth pixels in the manipulation region are invalid.

Calibration is measured at the start and end of every session under a 0.28 px RMS gate, an episode is rejected when an undocumented bystander appears, and a reject log ships with every batch. Heat and steam safety, press or iron brands, garment counts, cycle times, throughput, factory, brand or customer names and certifications are Not stated and are not claimed here.

For every delivered episode the site states that faces, plates and screens are blurred irreversibly, and that footage that cannot be de-identified is discarded. The anonymization record ships with the data, and an undocumented bystander is a stated reject criterion.

The site does not state a rule specific to a garment factory floor, brand labels sewn into garments or branded packaging, so this page makes no such claim. Settle it in the spec.

The October 2026 off-the-shelf catalog lists ~324,800 hours across 18 datasets, of which stereo is ~64,800 hours across 9 datasets. Two datasets name garment work. S4, a stereo dataset of 2,984 hours with head-mounted stereo, lists "Yarn mill, textile and garment: winding, doffing, roving change, cutting, stitching, knitting, inspection". M7, a mono dataset of 6,034 hours, lists "Textile, garment and light manufacturing: sewing, cutting, folding, knitting, weaving, inspection, packing, woodwork".

Neither lists pressing, and the site does not state that either contains the finishing and pressing row. Stereo garment finishing and pressing in MCAP is therefore custom apparel production data collection: custom collection at scale through a network of thousands of capture providers, for a consistent, recurring data flow to labs. Where coverage is deep, the median time from signed spec to first validated batch is a median of 48 hours; where it is thin, turnaround runs three to four weeks. The site does not say which speed applies to this order, so the timeline is quoted against your spec. Collections are billed per validated hour, and rejected episodes and recaptures are never billed.

Describe the steps and where each starts and ends: pressing a seam, pressing a finished garment, folding it or hanging it. Name the garment types you expect to see, whether an episode covers one garment or a longer stretch of work, what counts as a reject and the variation your pipeline is missing. Then name the streams you want in the file, the topic naming and message encoding your reader expects, whether calibration ships inside the file or beside it, and whether MCAP is the only delivery or sits beside RLDS, LeRobot or WebDataset.

Most programs begin with a Spec Pilot, a small first batch that proves the spec and accept criteria on real footage before you scale. The fifth table below shows what each spec element decides.