Video Datasets and Organizations

Source video content links

Free video content is available at the following websites. Some usage restrictions may apply.

• American Society of Cinematographers Motion Imaging Technology Council\

  • Standard Evaluation Material -  Standard Evaluation Material 2\
• http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-135034.html

• CableLabs has 4K and UHD video sequences

• Consumer Digital Video Library (CDVL) has high quality source video sequences freely available for research and development purposes

• DASH WAVE 5G Reference Sequences

• EBU UHD video sequences 

• Elecard video sequences 

• Fraunhofer 8K Berlin Test Sequences

• NASA

• Nature 1K - the raw beauty of nature in 4K at 60fps

• Netflix - El Fuente, Chimera, Meridian, and Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle. See here for a blog on Netflix’s Open Source Test Content. 

• QUALINET Databases portal

• RED Digital Camera - Nikon clarified that these videos can be used for internal-only datasets used by VQEG and ITU to independently validate metrics 

• SJTU 4K Video Sequences 

• Sveriges Television AB (SVT), 6 min of fully edited, professional 4K  footage, available in multiple formats. The SVT is available on the Consumer Digital Video Library (see here). SVT Open Content. New SVT content from 2022 is available here.

• Ultra Video Group, Ultra Video Group UVG Dataset

• University of Southern California, Media Communications Lab: VideoSet, (2016, October/November)

Video Dataset Links

Free video datasets are available at the following websites (i.e., media and subjective ratings).

• A summary of multiple video databases from Stefan Winkler (here)
• AVT-VQDB-UHD-1 (here)
• BVI-HD (here)
• CID2013 and CVD2014 (here)
• Consumer Digital Video Library (here, multiple datasets from NTIA/ITS and other organizations)
• Gaming Video Set (here)
• Kingston University London datasets
• Konstanz image and video quality datasets (here, multiple datasets)
• Laboratory for Image & Video Engineering (here, multiple datasets)
• MCML 4K UHD Video Quality Database (here)
• MCL-V Database, University of Southern California (here)
• Netflix Screen Size Crowdsourcing Open Dataset
• NTIA/ITS (here, multiple datasets)
• Parking Database: AGH Video Quality of Experience (QoE) Team (here)
• SYNAT Database: AGH Video Quality of Experience (QoE) Team (here)
• UGC Dataset (publication), 1500 YouTube videos, 20 second duration
• UGC Dtatabase: AGH Video Quality of Experience (QoE) Team (here)
• Waterloo IVC 4K Video Quality Database (here)
• YouTube UGC Dataset (here)

Image Quality Datasets

• CCRIQ and ITS4S2 at the Consumer Digital Video Library (here)
• KADID-10K (here), includes links to other image datasets from the University of Konstanz

Organization links

The following contains some of the organizations that have contributed to VQEG activities. These websites may contain information, tools, and products. Contact VQEG to have your website inserted below.

• AccepTV - provides solutions and service to measure perceptual video quality.

• AGH University of Science and Technology Multimedia Team (publications, projects, etc).

• AGH University of Science and Technology Video Quality Resources (video quality research, metrics, paper references).

• AVCN - University of West of Scotland

• AVEQ - Video quality and network performance measurement solutions

• Cardiff University: the Visual Attention and Visual Quality Toolbox (VAQA-Toolbox), has computational saliency evaluations and eye tracking data.

• ip-label - End to end monitoring and supervision solutions for quadruple play services and critical applications.

• ITU (International Telecommunication Union) web site.

• K-WILL Corporation - Manufactures video quality monitoring and measurement equipment for the broadcast industry. 

• Netflix

• Netscout

• NTIA/ITS Video Quality Research - research papers and royalty free software tools for video quality estimation.

• Opticom - provides OEM modules as well as end user software for the assessment of voice, audio and video quality.

• Pixelmetrix

• Qualinet European network on Quality of Experience in multimedia systems and services. 

• RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB (Unit Acreo). Expert area in Visual Media Quality (VMQ).

• Sky UK

• Spirent

• SSIM Index for Image Quality Assessment - Matlab code available.

• SwissQual / Rohde & Schwartz

• Telchemy - Provider for Performance Management and Measurement Solutions for VoIP, Videoconferencing, IPTV, and Mobile. 

• Université de Nantes

• University of West of Scotland

• VideoClarity - provides video analysis equipment for subjective and objective video algorithm assessment.

• Wuhan University