VGGSound

sounds

General information

Label Value Description
Name VGGSound Full dataset name
ID sounds/vgg_sound Datalist id for external indexing
Abbreviation VGGSound Official dataset abbreviation, e.g. one used in the original paper
Provider VGG
Year 2020 Dataset release year
Modalities Audio Video Data modalities included in the dataset
Collection name VGG Common name for all related datasets, used to group datasets coming from same source
Research domain Tagging Weak annotation Audio-visual Related domains, e.g., Scenes, Mobile devices, Audio-visual, Open set, Ambient noise, Unlabelled, Multiple sensors, SED, SELD, Tagging, FL, Strong annotation, Weak annotation, Unlabelled, Multi-annotator
License Creative Commons, Youtube
Download Download (None)
Companion site Site Link to the companion site for the dataset
Citation [Chen2020] VGGSound: A Large-scale Audio-Visual Dataset

Audio

Label Value Description

Data

Data type Audio Possible values: Audio | Features
File format
File format type Constant Possible values: Constant | Variable
Channels
Material
Source Youtube Possible values: Original | Youtube | Freesound | Online | Crowdsourced | [Dataset name]

Content

Content type Freefield Possible values: Freefield | Synthetic | Isolated

Recording

Setup Unknown Possible values: Near-field | Far-field | Mixed | Uncontrolled | Unknown
Spot type Unknown Possible values: Fixed | Moving | Unknown

Files

Count 199176 files Total number of files
Total duration (minutes) 33196 min Total duration of the dataset in minutes
File length Constant Characterization of the file lengths, possible values: Constant | Quasi-constant | Variable
File length (seconds) 10 sec Approximate length of files

Meta

Label Value Description
Types Tag List of meta data types provided for the data, possible values: Event, Tag, Scene, Caption, Geolocation, Spatial location, Annotator, Timestamp, Presence, Proximity, etc.

Scene

Event

Classes 310 Number of event classes
Classes False Possible values: True | False | Almost
Annotation
Type Weak Possible values: Strong | Weak | Location | None
Source Experts Possible values: Experts | Crowdsourced | Synthetic | Metadata | Automatic
Annotations per item 1 How many annotations there are available per item (possible multi-annotator setup)
Labelled amount (%) 100 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which is labelled
Validated amount (%) 0 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which is validated by human
Strong annotations amount (%) 0 % Percentage of all data, amount of data which has strong annotations
Overlapping event instances No
Labeling
Hierarchical No
Instance
Count 199176 Count of all event instances in the dataset
Average instances per class 642.503225806 Average per class instance count

Cross-validation setup

Label Value Description
Provided Yes
Folds 1
Sets Train Test Set types provided in the split, possible values: Train | Test | Val | Dev | Eval

Baseline

Label Value Description
Download Download Link to baseline system source code
Citation [Chen2020] Paper to cite for the baseline