YT-Temporal-1B Dataset

YT-Temporal-1B
Video-Text Dataset

YT-Temporal-1B is a large-scale video-text dataset constructed by the Meta AI research team, containing approximately 18 million YouTube video clips and automatically generated subtitles, providing temporally aligned video language data, widely used for temporal video understanding, action recognition, and video language pre-training research.

18M Video Clips 1B+ Video Frames Automatically Generated Subtitles Meta AI Research
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18M
Video Clips
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1B+
Video Frames
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ASR
Automatically Generated Subtitles
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Temporal
Temporally Aligned Annotations

Dataset Highlights

A large-scale temporal video language dataset that provides a solid foundation for video understanding research

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Billion Frame Scale

As one of the largest temporally annotated video datasets, it contains over 1 billion video frames, providing ample data support for large-scale video language model pre-training.

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YouTube Diversity

The data comes from a vast array of YouTube video content, covering various fields such as education, entertainment, lifestyle, and technology, ensuring broad and representative data distribution.

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Temporal Annotation

Provides precise temporal boundary information, achieving temporal alignment between video and text, supporting fine-grained video-language association research.

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ASR Subtitles

Text descriptions are generated through Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, enabling large-scale automated annotation and reducing manual annotation costs.

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Pre-training Ready

The data format is optimized for direct use in the pre-training process of video language models, eliminating the need for complex data preprocessing steps.

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Segment-level Data

Videos have been semantically pre-segmented into meaningful temporal segments, each corresponding to an independent text description, facilitating model training and evaluation.

Applicable Scenarios

Empowering various video AI tasks from basic research to industrial applications

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Video Understanding

Train models to perform temporal reasoning on video content, understanding the sequence of events and causal relationships

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Action Recognition

Develop systems that can recognize and classify human actions, applied in scenarios such as sports analysis and security monitoring

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Video Description

Build models that describe video content in natural language, generating accurate video text descriptions

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Video Retrieval

Use text queries to search and retrieve video clips, achieving cross-modal video content search

video temporal YouTube captions multimodal

Quick Start with YT-Temporal-1B

Quickly access the YT-Temporal-1B dataset through the AceDataCloud API

Python
import requests
# Set your API token
API_TOKEN = "your_api_token_here"
# Request YT-Temporal-1B dataset
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.acedata.cloud/datasets/yt-temporal-1b",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {API_TOKEN}",
        "Accept": "application/json"
    },
    params={
        "limit": 10
    }
)
# Parse the response
data = response.json()
for clip in data.get("clips", []):
    print(f"Video ID: {clip['video_id']}")
    print(f"Start: {clip['start_time']}s")
    print(f"End: {clip['end_time']}s")
    print(f"Caption: {clip['caption']}")
    print("---")

3 Steps to Get Started Quickly

From registration to usage, you can start your video AI research in just a few minutes

01

Register an Account

Register your Ace Data Cloud account at platform.acedata.cloud to gain immediate access to the platform.

02

Get API Key

Create an API Key in the console for authentication and dataset access authorization, secure and convenient.

03

Call Dataset API

Use your API Key to call the YT-Temporal-1B dataset interface and start exploring large-scale video-text data.

Start Exploring the YT-Temporal-1B Dataset

Ultra-large-scale video-text data, temporally precise alignment. Whether you are a video AI researcher or a multimodal model developer, YT-Temporal-1B is the ideal data foundation.