What is Video Recording and Labelling?
Capturing or collecting video data through cameras or other sources, and annotating or labelling objects, events, or scenes within the video frames to train AI models.
It’s essential for enabling machines to understand, track, and predict movement, behaviour, or patterns in dynamic visual data.
This process is a cornerstone for AI systems in autonomous driving, surveillance, sports analytics, robotics, smart cities, and healthcare.
Video Recording: Capturing the Data
Sources of Video Data:
Video data can come from various sources, including CCTV and security cameras, dashcams or autonomous vehicle cameras, drones capturing aerial footage, and advanced surveillance systems. Other sources include medical scopes like endoscopy, sports matches or training sessions, mobile phones or wearables, and industrial cameras used in manufacturing environments.
Key Considerations in Video Recording:
Video data can be sourced from diverse technologies, including CCTV and security cameras, dashcams or autonomous vehicle cameras, drones and aerial footage, and surveillance systems. Additional sources include medical scopes such as endoscopy, sports matches or training sessions, mobile phones, wearable devices, and industrial cameras used in manufacturing environments.
Data Privacy Note:
Always ensure video data complies with GDPR, HIPAA, or local data protection laws when it involves people or sensitive environments.
Video Labelling: Annotating for AI
Video labelling is the process of marking specific objects, movements, or events in each frame or over time.
Common Video Labelling Tasks:
Common video labeling tasks include object detection (drawing bounding boxes), object tracking across frames, and action recognition (identifying activities like jumping or hand-raising). They also involve pose estimation for body keypoints, lane/path annotation for navigation, event detection for incidents, scene classification (urban, rural, indoor, outdoor), and audio-video synchronization to align sounds or speech with visual actions.
