Epic-Kitchens Dataset

I love how academics can write in a way that is so difficult for anyone outside of their discipline to read. My wife used to work in communications for a university. One of her main duties was to decode academic speak enough for press releases. This site has clearly skipped the comms department.

"We are proud to announce the EPIC-KITCHENS VISOR, a new dataset of pixel annotations and a benchmark suite for segmenting hands and active objects in egocentric video. VISOR annotates videos from EPIC-KITCHENS, which comes with a new set of challenges not encountered in current video segmentation datasets. Specifically, we need to ensure both short- and long-term consistency of pixel-level annotations as objects undergo transformative interactions, e.g. an onion is peeled, diced and cooked - where we aim to obtain accurate pixel-level annotations of the peel, onion pieces, chopping board, knife, pan, as well as the acting hands. VISOR introduces an annotation pipeline, AI-powered in parts, for scalability and quality, and introduces"

> We hired freelance annotators via Upwork.

> Freelance annotators who did this were paid hourly, and self-reported their hours via the Upwork platform. Hourly rate varied by experience and submitted proposal from $6-$9/hour, with the higher rate reserved for most experienced annotators who were also in charge of QA checks.