Commercial kitchen egocentric video: food prep at volume, from the cook’s eyes.
Head-mounted footage of Nigerian cooks preparing food for customers: washing and cutting vegetables, grinding pepper, frying, stirring big pots of jollof and soup, portioning and plating, and cleaning down.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Commercial kitchens and food prep, step by step.
Bukas (local restaurants), canteens, caterers and busy home kitchens that cook for sale in Lagos.
Prep
Washing, peeling and chopping onions, peppers, tomatoes, yams and plantain; cleaning meat and fish.
Cooking
Frying, boiling, stirring large pots, adjusting gas or firewood heat, tasting.
Portioning
Serving rice, swallow and soup into plates and takeaway packs at speed.
Clean-down
Washing pots and utensils, wiping surfaces, sorting waste.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Knives and chopping boards
- Large pots, frying pans and ladles
- Gas cookers and firewood stoves
- Grinders and mortar and pestle
- Bowls, sieves, takeaway packs
- Fresh produce, grains, oil, spices
Interactions worth labelling.
- Cutting: knife grasp with a bracing hand on the food
- Pouring and scooping liquids and grains
- Stirring heavy pots with long utensils
- Container handling: lids, packs, bowls
- Wet and slippery objects: washed produce, fish
Why commercial kitchen work footage helps robotics and video models.
Food robotics
Kitchen automation needs to learn cutting, pouring and portioning from many cooks, not one lab chef.
Volume and repetition
Commercial kitchens repeat the same actions many times a day, which helps with action recognition and imitation.
Cuisine diversity
West African dishes, tools and techniques are missing from most kitchen datasets filmed in Europe, the US and East Asia.
How each clip is recorded and delivered.
- Camera
- Head-mounted smartphone, 1080p at 30 fps (H.264), wide field of view
- Sensors
- IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope) and GPS recorded alongside the video as CSV sidecars
- Your hardware
- Stereo, depth or multi-camera rigs supported if you ship them: we fit them and train recorders
- Label layers
- Curated minutes, 21-keypoint hand pose, action segments, captions
- Privacy
- Faces of bystanders and number plates blurred in every delivered file
- Formats
- MP4 + JSON per clip, IMU/GPS CSV sidecar, LeRobot or RLDS on request
- Delivery
- Weekly batches over signed links, with a manifest and a QA report
- Steam and smoke
- Steam can fog the lens; recorders wipe it and we cut fogged minutes
- Hygiene
- Recorders keep the kitchen’s usual hygiene; the strap is wiped down before each session
- Customers
- Serving counters are filmed with customer faces blurred
Four checks before a minute reaches you.
ID-checked recorders
BVN or NIN plus a live selfie matched to the ID, and a bank account in the same name, before any paid task.
Consenting workplaces
Each workplace is registered in person by a TrustAm field agent, with the owner’s consent and a location fence.
Live capture only
A spoken challenge code, motion sensors and GPS show each clip was filmed live, at work. No camera-roll uploads.
Blurred and reviewed
Bystander faces and number plates are blurred; a trained reviewer approves or cuts every minute before delivery.
Buyers usually ask.
Home kitchens or commercial only?
Both are possible. This page covers kitchens that cook for sale; home cooking is listed in the dataset library and can be ordered too.
Can you film specific dishes?
Yes. We can brief cooks to prepare named dishes and keep a recipe log alongside each clip.
How do I order commercial kitchen work egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the commercial kitchen work tasks, hours, label layers and format you need. We record a free sample of about 10 hours to your spec first. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.
How many hours can you deliver?
We are a Lagos pilot collecting to order and scaling. After the free sample, a paid pilot is usually 100 to 500 hours in weekly batches. We do not promise hours we have not recorded.
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Tell us what you need. We send a free sample first.
Email [email protected] with the data type, hours, languages or trades, labels and format. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.