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TRECVID data availability by year and task

All available ground truth data and/or topics (queries) can be found in our past data page under the corresponding year.

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 - 2021 Instance Search (INS) BBC Eastenders Video data was only available for past TRECVID active participants (BBC ended it's license for this dataset).
Tested queries, master shot reference and ground truth are available from hereUnder each year section (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021)
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
2020 - 2021 Video to Text (VTT) V3C2 Please use the past data webpage to access the testing data of video shots, ground truth, and evaluation readme files
for 2021
The data is available for download from NIST after filling and submiting the data agreement
2020 - 2021 Video Summarization (VSUM) BBC Eastenders Video data was only available for past TRECVID active participants (BBC ended it's license to this dataset).
Tested queries, master shot reference and ground truth are available for 2020, 2021
2019 - 2021 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 page here
to access the master shot reference, tested queries, and ground truth for 2019, 2020, and 2021
The data is available for download from NIST after filling and submiting the data agreement .
2022 - 2023 Movie Summarization (MSUM) & Deep Video Understanding (DVU) KinoLorberEdu The Kinolorber movies dataset (MCOLL) is composed of 10 licensed movies and has been used in the Movie Summarization (MSUM) task and the Deep Video Understanding (DVU) task. The data is available after submitting a data agreement form. The MSUM testing queries can be downloaded from here.. The DVU queries and ground truth used in 2022 are available from here. The 2023 DVU queries and ground truth are available from here.
2020 - 2023 Deep Video Understanding (DVU) Development Dataset A set of 14 Creative Common (CC) movies (total duration of 17.5 hr) previously utilized in 2020 and 2021 ACM Multimedia DVU Grand Challenges including their movie-level and scene-level annotations. (entities, relationships, interactions, sentiments). The movies have been collected from public websites such as Vimeo and the Internet Archive. The development dataset can be accessed from this URL. Please consult the included documentation folder readme files which explains how the dataset is organized.
2020 - 2022 Disaster Scene Description and Indexing (DSDI) LADI development data and NIST testing data LADI dataset is available for download with tutorial and other additional data from this github location
NIST testing videos, ground truth, and master shot reference is available from the past data page for each year: 2020, 2021, and 2022
2022 Video to Text (VTT) V3C1 Please use the past data webpage to access the testing data of video shots, ground truth, and evaluation readme files
for 2022
The data is available for download from NIST after filling and submiting the data agreement
2022 - 2023 Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) V3C2 Available for download from NIST (segmented videos) and/or ITEC University (raw whole videos). Please use the past data page here
to access the master shot reference, tested queries, and ground truth for 2022 and 2023
The data is available for download from NIST after filling and submiting the data agreement .
2023 Video to Text (VTT) V3C3 Please use the past data webpage to access the testing data of video shots, ground truth, and evaluation readme files
for 2023
The data is available for download from NIST after filling and submiting the data agreement

Digital Video Retrieval at NIST

Digital Video Retrieval at NIST
News magazine, science news, news reports, documentaries, educational programming, and archival video

Digital Video Retrieval at NIST
TV Episodes

Digital Video Retrieval at NIST
Airport Security Cameras & Activity Detection

Digital Video Retrieval at NIST
Video collections from News, Sound & Vision, Internet Archive,
Social Media, BBC Eastenders