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ChildLens: An egocentric video dataset for activity analysis in children

Nele-Pauline Suffo1, Pierre-Etienne Martin2, Anas Suffo3

  • 1Institute of Psychology in Education, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany. nele.suffo@leuphana.de.

Behavior Research Methods
|April 13, 2026
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ChildLens is a new dataset capturing children's daily activities using egocentric video and audio. This rich data advances AI for studying child development.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Audio Analysis
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding child development requires analyzing naturalistic everyday experiences.
  • Existing datasets often lack detailed, multimodal annotations of young children's activities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce ChildLens, a novel egocentric video and audio dataset.
  • To provide rich annotations for activities of children aged 3-5 years in their natural home environment.
  • To facilitate research in computer vision, audio analysis, and child development.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded 109 hours of egocentric video and audio from 62 children (aged 3-5).
  • Utilized a wide-lens camera and microphone integrated into a child-friendly vest.
  • Annotated data with five location and 14 activity classes, including audio-only, video-only, and multimodal instances.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated benchmark performance of state-of-the-art models (Boundary-Matching Network, Voice Type Classifier) on the dataset.
  • Validated the quality of annotations through successful model evaluations.
  • Established ChildLens as a valuable resource for multimodal activity recognition.

Conclusions:

  • The ChildLens dataset offers a unique resource for studying child development through AI.
  • It removes a critical obstacle by providing detailed, naturalistic data.
  • The dataset will be freely available for research to advance AI and developmental studies.

Keywords:
Child developmentEgocentric video-audio datasetMultimodal learningNaturalistic observation

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