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MSVD (Microsoft Research Video Description Corpus)

Introduced in Collecting Highly Parallel Data for Paraphrase Evaluation1 Jan 2011 archive 2025-07-28

The Microsoft Research Video Description Corpus (MSVD) dataset consists of about 120K sentences collected during the summer of 2010. Workers on Mechanical Turk were paid to watch a short video snippet and then summarize the action in a single sentence. The result is a set of roughly parallel descriptions of more than 2,000 video snippets. Because the workers were urged to complete the task in the language of their choice, both paraphrase and bilingual alternations are captured in the data.

Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52422&from=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fdownloads%2F38cf15fd-b8df-477e-a4e4-a4680caa75af%2F Image Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.06782.pdf

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 40 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 327. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
InternVideo2: Scaling Foundation Models for Multimodal Video Understanding 2 3 22 Mar 2024 not harvested
vid-TLDR: Training Free Token merging for Light-weight Video Transformer 1 2 20 Mar 2024 ran 3 of 4 samples (1 unverified)
RTQ: Rethinking Video-language Understanding Based on Image-text Model 2 1 1 Dec 2023 not harvested
Side4Video: Spatial-Temporal Side Network for Memory-Efficient Image-to-Video Transfer Learning 2 1 27 Nov 2023 not harvested
HowToCaption: Prompting LLMs to Transform Video Annotations at Scale 1 3 7 Oct 2023 ran 4 of 5 samples (1 unverified; 5 pointer-only for licence)
IcoCap: Improving Video Captioning by Compounding Images 0 2 5 Oct 2023 not harvested
LanguageBind: Extending Video-Language Pretraining to N-modality by Language-based Semantic Alignment 6 2 3 Oct 2023 ran 7 of 14 samples (7 unverified)
Prototype-based Aleatoric Uncertainty Quantification for Cross-modal Retrieval 1 1 29 Sep 2023 ran 12 of 19 samples (7 unverified)
Accurate and Fast Compressed Video Captioning 1 1 22 Sep 2023 ran 10 of 14 samples (4 unverified)
Dual-Modal Attention-Enhanced Text-Video Retrieval with Triplet Partial Margin Contrastive Learning 1 1 20 Sep 2023 not harvested
COSA: Concatenated Sample Pretrained Vision-Language Foundation Model 1 1 15 Jun 2023 not harvested
VLAB: Enhancing Video Language Pre-training by Feature Adapting and Blending 0 2 22 May 2023 not harvested
VALOR: Vision-Audio-Language Omni-Perception Pretraining Model and Dataset 1 1 17 Apr 2023 not harvested
MaMMUT: A Simple Architecture for Joint Learning for MultiModal Tasks 1 1 29 Mar 2023 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified)
Unmasked Teacher: Towards Training-Efficient Video Foundation Models 1 1 28 Mar 2023 ran 3 of 8 samples (5 unverified)
SEM-POS: Grammatically and Semantically Correct Video Captioning 0 1 26 Mar 2023 not harvested
DiffusionRet: Generative Text-Video Retrieval with Diffusion Model 4 2 17 Mar 2023 ran 5 of 6 samples (1 unverified)
Vid2Seq: Large-Scale Pretraining of a Visual Language Model for Dense Video Captioning 3 1 27 Feb 2023 not harvested
mPLUG-2: A Modularized Multi-modal Foundation Model Across Text, Image and Video 4 1 1 Feb 2023 ran 9 of 19 samples (10 unverified)
Cap4Video: What Can Auxiliary Captions Do for Text-Video Retrieval? 4 1 31 Dec 2022 ran 14 of 25 samples (11 unverified)
HiTeA: Hierarchical Temporal-Aware Video-Language Pre-training 0 1 30 Dec 2022 not harvested
InternVideo: General Video Foundation Models via Generative and Discriminative Learning 2 2 6 Dec 2022 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified)
An Empirical Study of End-to-End Video-Language Transformers with Masked Visual Modeling 1 1 4 Sep 2022 not harvested
Diverse Video Captioning by Adaptive Spatio-temporal Attention 1 2 19 Aug 2022 not harvested
X-CLIP: End-to-End Multi-grained Contrastive Learning for Video-Text Retrieval 3 1 15 Jul 2022 ran 1 of 2 samples (1 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
LaT: Latent Translation with Cycle-Consistency for Video-Text Retrieval 0 1 11 Jul 2022 not harvested
CenterCLIP: Token Clustering for Efficient Text-Video Retrieval 1 1 2 May 2022 ran 0 of 1 samples (1 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
MILES: Visual BERT Pre-training with Injected Language Semantics for Video-text Retrieval 1 1 26 Apr 2022 not harvested
Tencent Text-Video Retrieval: Hierarchical Cross-Modal Interactions with Multi-Level Representations 0 2 7 Apr 2022 not harvested
X-Pool: Cross-Modal Language-Video Attention for Text-Video Retrieval 1 1 28 Mar 2022 ran 1 of 2 samples (1 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)

The full list of 40 is in the JSON twin.

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • MSVD

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