| --- |
| configs: |
| - config_name: corpus |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: corpus/test-* |
| - config_name: queries |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: queries/test-* |
| - config_name: qrels |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: qrels/test-* |
| license: unknown |
| pretty_name: EVVE Video-to-Video Event Retrieval |
| --- |
| |
| # EVVE Video-to-Video Event Retrieval |
|
|
| This repository packages a fixed, self-contained evaluation set derived from |
| the EVent VidEo (EVVE) benchmark introduced by Revaud et al. at CVPR 2013. |
| Given a query video of a specific real-world event, the task is to retrieve |
| other videos depicting the same event. |
|
|
| ## Original and packaged protocols |
|
|
| The published EVVE core contains 620 queries, 2,375 database videos, 13 events, |
| 135,213 positive query/database judgments, and 166 hours of web video. The |
| original large-scale experiment additionally used 100,000 distractor videos. |
|
|
| The public S2VS EVVE feature artifact identifies a surviving 2,410-video layer |
| of the original core. A reproducible acquisition pass obtained 2,110 of those |
| videos from public media sources: 2,042 directly from their original YouTube |
| IDs and 68 from checksum-pinned public archive captures (67 Wayback Machine |
| captures and one Internet Archive item). Intersecting the 2,110-video manifest |
| with the checksum-pinned annotation snapshot yields: |
|
|
| - 466 query videos (154 fewer than the original core); |
| - 1,644 database videos (731 fewer than the original core); |
| - 13 events; |
| - 86,925 positive query/database relevance judgments; |
| - 958 database videos relevant to at |
| least one event and 686 other core |
| candidates; |
| - every retained query has at least one positive; |
| - zero query/corpus ID overlap. |
|
|
| The acquisition filter removed 300 IDs from the S2VS layer: 38 queries and 262 |
| database videos (81 positive and 181 other database videos), eliminating 13,864 |
| qrels. At freeze time, yt-dlp reported 95 private videos, 64 videos from |
| terminated accounts, 14 age-restricted videos, four copyright-claimed or |
| blocked videos, one terms-of-service removal, and 122 otherwise unavailable |
| videos. Exact attrition is reproducible as the set difference between |
| `construction/s2vs-2023-video-ids.txt` (2,410 |
| IDs) and `construction/surviving-public-media-video-ids.txt` |
| (2,110 IDs). |
|
|
| Those two manifests and `construction/media-source-overrides.json` are frozen in |
| the immutable Hugging Face revision |
| [`88f505f0a77f0ee0a14f2d7e098aaea08507bbe5`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Cerru02/EVVE/tree/88f505f0a77f0ee0a14f2d7e098aaea08507bbe5/construction). |
| They are not copied into the MTEB source tree. The construction script downloads |
| them from that revision and verifies these SHA-256 checksums before use: |
|
|
| - `s2vs-2023-video-ids.txt`: `d7a84d997fcc23c6bb10db1902203b5c0d6ad65c65c4f8257b4295c690fb1c1c`; |
| - `surviving-public-media-video-ids.txt`: `ebf63bd9f524a1ab15104657e0448ddd4a1cbfb5720795ca9569703fbffcb0e6`; |
| - `media-source-overrides.json`: `3fb004549047e942be5e193b816c4fb18efdfcf9c166cb949016d5b1fd184d6d`. |
|
|
| `media-manifest.jsonl` records the exact frozen ID, packaged filename, original |
| and acquisition URLs, byte count, and SHA-256 checksum for every video. The |
| manifest's own SHA-256 is `9ef60f6584b0ca6b2cfe9be6ba982d10b06cb37fc1d8ee52718a5f0349efa8fb`. Construction fails if any |
| frozen video is missing or contains no decodable frames, so later source |
| availability cannot silently alter the task. The complete frozen tree also |
| passed MTEB's TorchCodec 10-frame uniform sampler. `media-audit.json` records |
| final completeness and affected-qrel counts. |
|
|
| ## Event coverage |
|
|
| Q/P means retained queries / positive database videos. All 13 official events |
| remain represented, and every packaged query has one or more packaged positives. |
|
|
| | Event | Original Q/P | S2VS Q/P | Packaged Q/P | Removed from S2VS Q/P | |
| |---|---:|---:|---:|---:| |
| | barcelona+riots+2012 | 13/27 | 11/17 | 9/13 | 2/4 | |
| | die+toten+hosen+rock+am+ring+2012 | 32/64 | 21/42 | 19/37 | 2/5 | |
| | dsk+arrested | 9/19 | 8/17 | 8/17 | 0/0 | |
| | egypt+Tahrir+Square+protestors | 36/72 | 32/62 | 31/59 | 1/3 | |
| | johnny+stade+de+france+2012 | 87/174 | 75/155 | 75/150 | 0/5 | |
| | kate+william+wedding | 44/88 | 30/61 | 25/55 | 5/6 | |
| | marrakech+bomb+attack | 4/10 | 3/8 | 3/6 | 0/2 | |
| | mdna+rome+2012 | 51/104 | 38/86 | 31/76 | 7/10 | |
| | obama+speech+victory | 14/29 | 11/22 | 10/21 | 1/1 | |
| | shakira+live+kiev+2011 | 19/39 | 10/24 | 8/23 | 2/1 | |
| | strokkur+geyser | 215/431 | 189/387 | 175/357 | 14/30 | |
| | thailand+flood+2011 | 73/148 | 55/115 | 52/106 | 3/9 | |
| | universal+studios+jurassic+park+ride | 23/47 | 21/43 | 20/38 | 1/5 | |
|
|
| ## Construction and relevance |
|
|
| The source metadata identifies videos by YouTube ID. The construction script |
| downloads video at up to 360p with yt-dlp, without transcoding. Four IDs whose |
| progressive MP4 currently contains no media payload use separate complete |
| video-only and audio streams, which yt-dlp merges without transcoding. For |
| source IDs no longer downloadable from YouTube, checksum-pinned |
| public archive captures in `construction/media-source-overrides.json` are used. |
| The original and actual acquisition URLs remain separate in every row and in |
| `media-manifest.jsonl`. The resulting media is embedded in the Hugging Face |
| dataset. The `corpus`, `queries`, and `qrels` configurations use the standard |
| MTEB retrieval schema. Query rows also retain the EVVE event name and |
| event-specific ignored (`null`) database IDs required by the original evaluator |
| (the pinned annotation snapshot contains no retained `null` IDs). |
|
|
| For every retained query, positive qrels are the Cartesian product with all |
| retained positive database videos for the same official EVVE event. The |
| 100,000-video distractor collection is not included because the original |
| distractor media is no longer publicly available. |
|
|
| This is a reproducible surviving-public-media subset of EVVE, not the complete |
| original benchmark. Because both the core corpus and distractor protocol differ, |
| published/source-paper scores are not directly comparable with results here. |
|
|
| ## Media provenance and license |
|
|
| The media originated from the YouTube IDs published by EVVE; public archival |
| captures are used only where listed explicitly in the source-override manifest. |
| No applicable dataset-wide redistribution license for the original videos was |
| identified; the archived project page also contains no explicit third-party |
| redistribution prohibition. Copyright remains with the respective video rights |
| holders. Hugging Face card metadata therefore records the dataset-wide license |
| as `unknown`, while MTEB's `TaskMetadata` uses its corresponding value, `not |
| specified`. This provenance statement does not claim that video copyright was |
| transferred to EVVE or to this repository, or that redistribution is authorized. |
|
|
| The EVVE project page states separately that its software is BSD-licensed and |
| its released descriptors are free. The pinned S2VS source repository is |
| MIT-licensed. Those source-specific terms are not presented here as a license |
| for the packaged videos, so assigning BSD or MIT to the dataset as a whole would |
| be inaccurate. |
|
|
| | Component | License or status reported by its source | |
| |---|---| |
| | MTEB construction code | Apache-2.0 (MTEB repository license) | |
| | Pinned S2VS source repository | MIT | |
| | EVVE software and released descriptors | BSD / described as free on the EVVE project page | |
| | Packaged third-party videos | No dataset-wide license identified (`not specified`) | |
|
|
| ## Sources |
|
|
| - [Archived EVVE project page](https://web.archive.org/web/20241102150758id_/http://pascal.inrialpes.fr/data2/evve/index.html) |
| - [Original paper](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2013/html/Revaud_Event_Retrieval_in_2013_CVPR_paper.html) |
| - [Pinned S2VS annotations](https://github.com/gkordo/s2vs/tree/03eb0c9a9a7455d132c4210b797fa6ef563b52ea) |
| - [S2VS MIT license](https://github.com/gkordo/s2vs/blob/03eb0c9a9a7455d132c4210b797fa6ef563b52ea/LICENSE) |
| - [S2VS EVVE feature artifact](https://mever.iti.gr/s2vs/features/evve.hdf5) |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @inproceedings{revaud2013event, |
| author = {Revaud, Jerome and Douze, Matthijs and Schmid, Cordelia and Jegou, Herve}, |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition}, |
| pages = {2459--2466}, |
| title = {Event Retrieval in Large Video Collections with Circulant Temporal Encoding}, |
| year = {2013} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
