Kinetics Dataset Downloader

Kinetics-400/600/700 is a large-scale high-quality dataset of YouTube video URLs which includes a diverse range of human focused actions.

Warn·ing! This work comes with no warranty!

This script downloads the Kinetics-400, 600 or 700 dataset according to author guidelines at https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/kinetics. The original paper can be found at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.06950.pdf. This script downloads only ~10 second long clips using the provided youtube video ID. Some videos may be missing because they may have been taken off YouTube or be restricted because of copyright issues.

Pre·req·ui·sites ( dependencies )

• Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 (This is some-what irrelevant but worth mentioning)

• Python 3

• tqdm

pip3 install tqdm

• youtube-dl

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

• ffmpeg

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Us·age

python kinetics_dataset.py -v [400 / 600 / 700] -t [train / validate / test] -d ~/Documents/datasets/kinetics_dataset/

eg. python kinetics_dataset.py -v 400 -t train -d ~/Documents/Kinetics_dataset

Command Line Parameters

• -v: The version of the Kinetics dataset to be downloaded, Kinetics400,Kinetics600 or Kinetics700
• -t: The split category to be downloaded, such as train, validate or test
• -d: Final destintion where all videos should be dwonloaded and saved to. A directory is automatically created in this destination folder according to the parameter of -t

From the above exampple, the final destination folder may look like

 |~/Documents/Kinetics_dataset
   |-- train
   |-- validate
   |-- test