Hair braiding egocentric video: fast, precise finger work, filmed from the braider’s eyes.
Head-mounted footage of Nigerian braiders at work in salons: parting and sectioning, adding extensions, three-strand and cornrow braiding at speed, then sealing and finishing.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Hair braiding, step by step.
Hair salons and home-based braiders in Lagos, where one style can take several hours.
Sectioning
Parting hair with a comb tail into neat sections, clipping hair out of the way.
Adding extensions
Splitting and feeding extension hair into the root of each braid.
Braiding
Three-strand braids, cornrows, twists and knotless styles, often very fast.
Finishing
Sealing ends with hot water, trimming, applying products, styling.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Rat-tail comb and clips
- Extension hair
- Hair products and oil
- Scissors
- Kettle or hot water bowl
- Salon chair and mirror
Interactions worth labelling.
- Rapid, repeated finger crossings on three strands
- Tension control on a deformable linear object
- Pinch grasps on very thin bundles
- Two-handed coordination with a comb as a tool
- Long sessions with the same action thousands of times
Why hair braiding footage helps robotics and video models.
Dexterity benchmark
Braiding is one of the most finger-intensive everyday tasks people do, a strong test for hand-pose estimation.
Deformable linear objects
Strands behave like cables and ropes, a known hard case for robot manipulation.
Long repetitive sequences
Hours of the same action with small variations suit temporal models and action counting.
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
- Client consent
- The client consents too; the camera points at the hair, and any face in frame is blurred
- Speed
- Fast finger motion can blur at 30 fps; a buyer high-frame-rate rig can be fitted
- Sessions
- Styles run for hours; we split long sessions into clips with linked metadata
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.
Does the client appear in the footage?
The camera looks down at the hair, so the client’s head is in view but not their face. Any face that enters the frame is blurred, and the client consents before recording.
Can you capture higher frame rates for fast finger motion?
Our phones record 1080p30. For 60 fps or more, ship a rig and we fit it and train braiders to wear it.
How do I order hair braiding egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the hair braiding 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.