| Year | Task(s) | Dataset | Data Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Shot Boundary Detection | 8 ABC/CNN | Please fill and submit this form. We will process the request and when approved, we will ship you on a DVD the data. Please note that we can not give out the CSPAN data |
| 2004 | Shot Boundary Detection | ABC/CNN | Please fill and submit this form. We will process the request and when approved, we will ship you on a DVD the data. |
| 2005 | Shot Boundary Detection | 8 Broadcast news + 4 NASA | Please fill and submit this form. We will process the request and when approved, we will ship you on a DVD the data. |
| 2006 | Shot Boundary Detection | Broadcast news videos | Please fill and submit this form. We will process the request and when approved, we will ship you on a DVD the data. |
| 2007 | Shot Boundary Detection | Sound & Vision | Please fill and submit this organization form. We will process the request and when approved, we will ship you on a DVD the data. Also, please fill and keep on file for your record the individual form |
| 2007 - 2009 | High-level feature extraction, Video Search | Sound & Vision | Please follow the instructions found here to download the data, the 2007, 2008, and 2009 for ground truth, topics, and master shot references. |
| 2008 - 2017 | Surveillance Event Detection (SED) | Gatwick(2008) | Video data is only available for current TRECVID active participants. Annotations are available here |
| 2008 - 2017 | Surveillance Event Detection (SED) | 2009 i-LIDS test data | Video data is only available for current TRECVID active participants. Please follow the instructions here |
| 2010 - 2017 | Multimedia Event Detection (MED) | HAVIC | Only available for current year TRECVID active participants. Please follow the instructions here |
| 2010 - 2012 | Semantic Indexing (SIN) | IACC.1.A-C | Available for download from the Internet Archive (CC). Please use the iacc.1.A.collection.xml, iacc.1.B.collection.xml, and iacc.1.C.collection.xml files to download video data from the internet archive, and the 2010, 2011, and 2012 for the master shot reference, ASR, tested concepts and ground truth |
| 2011 | Instance Search (INS) | BBC Rushes | Please fill and submit this organization form to access the data. and fill and keep on file for your record the individual form |
| 2012 | Instance Search (INS) | Flickr | Video testing data available under a Creative Commons license. Please fill and submit this form to access the data |
| 2013 - 2015 | Semantic Indexing (SIN) | IACC.2.A-C | Available for download from the Internet Archive (CC). Please use the collection.xml files for downloading data, and the 2013, 2014, and 2015 for the master shot reference, ASR, tested concepts and ground truth |
| 2013 - 2019 | Instance Search (INS) | BBC Eastenders | Video data is only available for current TRECVID active participants. Tested queries, master shot reference and ground truth are available from hereUnder each year section (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) |
| 2013 - 2016 | Localization (LOC) | IACC.2.A-C | Please use the past data section for 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013, for downloading I-frames, and ground truth |
| 2016 - 2017 | Multimedia Event Detection (MED) | YFCC100M | Can be downloaded from this link |
| 2016 - 2017 | Video Hyperlinking | Blib10000 | Please follow the instructions in this link |
| 2016 - 2018 | Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) | IACC.3 | Available for download from the Internet Archive (CC). Please use the past data section here to access the master shot reference, ASR, tested queries, ground truth and collection.xml video list. Under each year section (2016, 2017, 2018) the groundtruth and tested queries are available. The data is available for download from NIST for current active participants after filling and submiting the data agreement (please see guidelines). |
| 2016 - 2019 | Video to Text (VTT) | Vines URLs | Please use the past data webpage to access the testing data (URLs) of Vine videos used, ground truth, and evaluation readme files for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 NIST does not distribute the Vine videos. You need to download them yourself using the URLs provided |
| 2019 | Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) | V3C1 | Available for download from NIST (segmented videos) and/or ITEC University (raw whole videos). Please use the past data section here to access the master shot reference, tested queries, and ground truth The data is available for download from NIST after filling and submiting the data agreement . |
All available ground truth data and/or topics (queries) can be found in our past data page under the corresponding year.


News magazine, science news, news reports, documentaries, educational programming, and archival video

TV Episodes

Airport Security Cameras & Activity Detection

Video collections from News, Sound & Vision, Internet Archive,
Social Media, BBC Eastenders