Materials
The Corpus Overview
The corpus, with over 500 hours of head camera video promises new insights into the natural statistics of visual experiences for visual development generally, for visual object recognition, for human face perception, and for object name learning. We extract images from the video at 1 per second creating an image corpus of nearly 2 million images.
Participants were 91 infants (46 female, 45 male) aged 1 to 24 months from middle class families in Monroe County, Indiana who were recruited through county birth records and community events.
We have an additional 40 participants (24 female, 16 male) aged 1 to 15 months from a fisherman community in Chennai, India.
Homeview Corpus Information
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The Corpus
The corpus, with over 500 hours of head camera video promises new insights into the natural statistics of visual experiences for visual development generally, for visual object recognition, for human face perception, and for object name learning.
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The Head Camera
Recording the availability of faces in infants' everyday environments requires a method that is not disruptive of those daily environments. Accordingly, we use a wearable camera that was lightweight, cable-free, attached to daily-wear hats, and easy for parents to use.
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Procedure
In a pre-visit, parents were informed about the goal of the study, consent was obtained, and they were instructed to use the camera. A hat was selected and fit to the child. Subsequently, the materials were delivered to the infant's home and the parents were reinstructed in the use of the camera.
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Coding the Corpus
The videos collected from parents were screened for privacy and accidental recordings (1.5% of total recording) and those sections were subsequently removed from the dataset.
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Sample Data
These videos were obtained in the home setting. See how selective our momentary view of the world is and how it changes with development.