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Kinetics 400

Introduced by Will Kay et al. in The Kinetics Human Action Video Dataset19 May 2017 archive 2025-07-28

The dataset contains 400 human action classes, with at least 400 video clips for each action. Each clip lasts around 10s and is taken from a different YouTube video. The actions are human focussed and cover a broad range of classes including human-object interactions such as playing instruments, as well as human-human interactions such as shaking hands.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06950

Image source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06950

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

No leaderboard in the archive resolves to this dataset.

Papers archive 2025-07-28

No paper in the archive has a leaderboard row on this dataset; the archive counts 712 papers for it but never published that list.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

2 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

No language tagged.

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • Kinetics-400
  • Kinetics 400

2 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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