Facebook Collected 3K Hours First-Person Footage For Vital AI Project

Facebook Inc FB has announced research project Ego4D, in which it collected 3,025 hours of first-person footage from around the world to train next-generation artificial intelligence models.
Facebook’s Reality Labs division is working on numerous projects that could benefit from AI models trained using video footage shot from the perspective of a human, CNBC reports.
Facebook will make the Ego4D data set publicly available to researchers in November.
The footage could teach AI to understand or identify something in the real world, or a virtual world, that one might see from a first-person perspective through a pair of glasses or an Oculus headset.
The data set could be deployed in AI models used to train technology like robots to more rapidly understand the world.
Facebook and a consortium of 13 university partners relied on over 700 participants across nine countries to capture the first-person footage.
Facebook captured the footage in the U.S., U.K., Italy, India, Japan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. Facebook aims to expand the project to more countries, including Colombia and Rwanda.
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