Market trading egocentric video: stalls, produce and customers, from the trader’s eyes.
Head-mounted footage from traders’ stalls in Lagos markets: sorting and arranging produce, measuring with tins and scales, bagging, serving customers, restocking and closing up.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Market trading, step by step.
Open-air and covered markets in Lagos, from food markets to provision stalls, with heavy foot traffic and goods stacked all around.
Arranging
Sorting produce by size and quality, stacking it into neat piles, pricing heaps.
Measuring
Scooping grains with tins and cups, weighing on scales, counting pieces.
Serving
Bagging goods, handing over, giving change or confirming a transfer on a phone.
Restocking and closing
Opening sacks and cartons, refilling, covering goods, packing away at night.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Measuring tins (mudu, derica) and scales
- Nylon bags, sacks and cartons
- Baskets and trays
- Knives for cutting produce
- Phones for transfers
- Tomatoes, peppers, onions, grains, provisions
Interactions worth labelling.
- Pick-and-place of many small, irregular items
- Scooping and pouring grains and powders
- Bagging: opening a bag, filling, tying
- Hand-to-hand exchange with another person
- Sorting by look and feel (ripeness, size)
Why market trading footage helps robotics and video models.
Retail and warehouse robotics
Picking, sorting and bagging irregular goods is the core task in grocery and warehouse automation.
Human-to-human hand-overs
Clips show natural hand-overs between trader and customer, rare in lab datasets.
Crowded, busy scenes
Clutter, motion and noise make it a strong test for perception in the real world.
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
- Faces
- Markets are busy; every bystander face is blurred in delivered files
- Money
- Cash, cards and phone screens with account details are blurred or cut
- Consent
- The stall owner consents and the market location is registered in person
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.
What about customers in the footage?
Customers appear at the edges of the frame. Their faces are blurred in every delivered file, and recorders do not film close-ups of people who have not agreed.
Do you have speech from markets too?
Yes. Market bargaining in Pidgin, Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa is one of our speech tasks, recorded on clip-on microphones with both speakers’ consent.
How do I order market trading egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the market trading 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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- Trust and consentPeople, places, minutes
- Matching datasetsCollect-to-order listings
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.