International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH), the only Indian institute in Facebook AIs ambitious Ego4D project, has collected data from people across 25 locations in the country. A global consortium of 13 universities and labs are participating in Facebooks Ego4D project, which collected first-person footage from around the world to train next-generation (AI) models.
The researchers said that the data set has a wide variety of scenes, people, and activities. Initially, we wanted to have a team that could travel across the country and participate in data collection. But with the pandemic, we had to find multiple local teams and ship cameras as well as data. We had to train people over Videos, said CV Jawahar of Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIITH.