A number of datasets are available for use in TRECVID 2018 and are described below.
The IACC.3 dataset is approximately 4600 Internet Archive videos (144 GB, 600 h) with Creative Commons licenses in MPEG-4/H.264 format with duration ranging from 6.5 min to 9.5 min and a mean duration of almost 7.8 min. Most videos will have some metadata provided by the donor available e.g., title, keywords, and description.
Data use agreements and Distribution: Download for active participants from NIST/mirror servers. See Data use agreements
Master shot reference: Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Automatic speech recognition (for English): Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Three datasets (A,B,C) - totaling approximately 7300 Internet Archive videos (144 GB, 600 h) with Creative Commons licenses in MPEG-4/H.264 format with duration ranging from 10 s to 6.4 min and a mean duration of almost 5 min. Most videos will have some metadata provided by the donor available e.g., title, keywords, and description.
NOTE: Be sure to reload the relevant collection.xml files (A, B, C) in the master shot reference and remove files with a "use" attribute set to "dropped" - these are no longer available under a Creative Commons license and are not part of the test collection.
Data use agreements and Distribution: Download for active participants from NIST/mirror servers. See Data use agreements
Master shot reference: Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Automatic speech recognition (for English): Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Three datasets (A,B,C) - totaling approximately 8000 Internet Archive videos (160 GB, 600 h) with Creative Commons licenses in MPEG-4/H.264 format with duration between 10s and 3.5 min. Most videos will have some metadata provided by the donor available e.g., title, keywords, and description
Data use agreements and Distribution: Available by download from the Internet Archive. See TRECVID Past Data page. Or download from the copy on the Dublin City University server, but use the collection.xml files (see TRECVID past data page) for instructions on how to check the current availability of each file.
Master shot reference: Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Automatic speech recognition (for English): Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Approximately 3200 Internet Archive videos (50 GB, 200 h) with Creative Commons licenses in MPEG-4/H.264 format with durations between 3.6 and 4.1 min Most videos will have some metadata provided by the donor available e.g., title, keywords, and description
Data use agreements and Distribution: Available by download from the Internet Archive. See TRECVID Past Data page. Or download from the copy (see tv2010 directory) on the Dublin City University server, but use the collection.xml files (see TRECVID past data page) for instructions on how to check the current availability of each file.
Master shot reference: Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Common feature annotation: Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
Automatic speech recognition (for English): Available by download from the TRECVID Past Data page
The data consist of about 150 h of airport surveillance video data (courtesy of the UK Home Office). The Linguistic Data Consortium has provided event annotations for the entire corpus. The corpus was divided into development and evaluation subsets. Annotations for 2008 development and test sets are available.
Data use agreements and Distribution:
Development data annotations: available by download.
Approximately 244 video files (totally 300 GB, 464 h) with associated metadata, each containing a week's worth of BBC EastEnders programs in MPEG-4/H.264 format.
Data use agreements and Distribution: Download and fill out the data permission agreement from the active participants' area of the TRECVID website. After the agreement has been processed by NIST and the BBC, the applicant will be contacted by Dublin City University with instructions on how to download from their servers. See Data use agreements
Master shot reference: Will be available to active participants by download from the TRECVID 2018 active participant's area.
Automatic speech recognition (for English): Will be available to active participants by download from Dublin City University.
The data set consists of:
Available for training data is the 2016 pilot VTT testing data and 2017 VTT testing data (set of about 2000 Vine URLs and their ground truth descriptions).
In 2018, NIST will distribute for active participants a list of new URLs for testing data. Please consult the general schedule for data release and submission of results dates.
In order to be eligible to receive the data, you must have applied for participation in TRECVID. Your application will be acknowledged by NIST with a team ID, and active participant's password, and information about how to obtain the data.
Note that all of the IACC.2 and IACC.3 data was made available last year. So if you signed the permission form last year and do not need to replace your original copy then you do not need to submit another permission form this year.
In your email include the following:
As Subject: "TRECVID data request"
In the body: your name
your short team ID (given when you applied to participate)
the kinds of data you will be using - one or more of the following:
Gatwick (2008), IACC.2, IACC.3, and/or BBC EastEnders
You will receive instructions on how to download the data.
Please ask only for the test data (and optional development data) required for the task(s) you apply to participate in and intend to complete.
Requests are handled in the order they are received. Please allow 5 business days for NIST to respond to your request. To download the Gatwick or IACC data you need to use the access codes sent to you by email and the information about data servers in the the active participant's area.
Requests for the EastEnders data are forwarded within 5 business days to the BBC and from there to DCU, who will contact you with the download information. This process may take up to 3 weeks.