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Kinetics and AVA-Kinetics - Downloader

This repository contains code to download all subsets (700, 600, or 400) of Kinetics dataset. You can use the same download code to download 6 seconds long clips around the timestamps provided in Ava-Kinetics detection dataset. Code is modified from ActivityNet Crawler.

UPDATE: Direct download is made available HERE by CVDF

This repo use youtube-dl route to download videos for kinetics dataset. Which leads to lower number of videos downloaded as some of the videos are deleted from youtube. Above link give direct access to entire original dataset including videos that are now deleted from youtube. Please use that in future, also, it would take much less time and space.

But, you can other utilities from here, e.g. resizing video, extracting frame, rewriting the annotations etc.

Download Kinetics dataset

What is different from ActivityNet Crawler

Orignal Crawler store videos in respective label directories. However, there is an overlap among the subsets and labels (class names) are changed, e.g. passing american football (not in-game) renamed to passing American football (not in-game) from 600 to 700, or class is made more fine-grained, e.g. picking fruit into multiple subclasses. Which leads to multiple duplicate copies of some videos in different subfolder/directories.

Since we have labels in .csv files, then we do not need to store videos in respective label directories. It provides two benefits, i) avoid same video being stored under different folder, i.e. no duplicate copies ii) directory structure is simple, i.e. all videos are stored under single directory.

Usage

First, clone this repository and make sure that all the submodules are also cloned properly.

git clone [email protected]:gurkirt/kinetics-download-prep.git
cd kinetics-download-prep

Next, setup your environment

conda install joblib
conda install pandas
conda install sqlite
conda install zlib
conda install -c menpo ffmpeg
pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

WARNING REGARDING FFMPEG

python based ffmpeg might not work. You can install system ffmpeg, which is usall install at /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Re-orgnise existing videos

Use reorg_kinetics_videos.py to reorgnise existing videos from videos_dir.

python reorg_kinetics_videos.py <videos_dir> <dst_dir>

If dst_dir doesn't exist the it will create it

Download videos

Now, you can download the reminaing or all dataset splits by calling:

mkdir <output_dir>; 

To download videos from specfic set.

python download.py <output_dir> --input_csv={dataset_split}.csv

OR, you can download entire dataset with all it's versions and all of it's sets. Just do not sepcify input_csv, by default it will pick up kinetics_csv directory and all the .csv files there.

Also, You can specify number of jobs to run in parllel by --n=number.

python download.py <output_dir> 

Frame extraction

python frame_extract.py <videos_dir> <output_dir> --fps=30 

Extract frames at particular frame rate by --fps=int_number (default 30) or video fps via setting --fps=0. You can specify number of jobs to run in parllel by --n=number.

Downscale videos

NOT WORKING at the momement, some problem with FFMPEG

Smallest side to 256. Skeleton is already there in downscale_videos.py.

python downscale_videos.py <input_dir> <output_dir> --fps=30

Also, You can specify number of jobs to run in parllel by --n=number.

Download AVA-Kinetics

Similiar to Kinetics you can download clip around the time stamps provide in AVA-Kinetics dataset.

First step to construction download list from AVA-kinetics annoatated videos and their time stamps. You can run make_ava_kin_download_csv.py for it. I have laready performed this task on AVA-kinetics-V.1. And you can find the download csv for AVA-Kinetics in ava_kinetics_csv.

Now, similiar to Kinetics, you can run download script.

python download.py <output_dir> --input_csv=ava_kinetics_csv\videos_to_download.csv

It will download all the clips with <videoname>_<timestamp>.mp4. Timestamp here is integer value, calculated from AVA-kinetics timestamps (let's call it ts), timestamp=math.floor(ts). Since, we have want a clip around that time stamp, I set the start-time of that clip to be 3 seconds before the timestamp and duration to be 6 seconds. To be precise, start-frame = max(0,timestamp-3). When you want to get annotated frame it can be obatined by frame_number = ts*fps if math.floor(ts)<=3 else (3 + ts-math.floor(ts))*fps of a video <videoname>_<timestamp>.mp4 extract at particular fps.

TODO

Fast loading into Python (under construction)

Use python-ffmpeg to load videos. Trial there in load_frame_eg.py, but it doesn't work that fast.

Try alternative ways to load video quick.

Extend it to video chunk loading not the whole video. Should be faster but no easy way to do it other than loading from frame dumps.