DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15448846
title: GAViD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset for Context-Aware Group Affect Recognition from Videos

description: Overview

We introduce the Group Affect from ViDeos (GAViD) dataset, which comprises 5091 video clips with multimodal data (video, audio, and context), annotated with ternary valence and discrete emotion labels, and enriched with VideoGPT-generated contextual metadata and human-annotated action cues. We also present CAGNet, a baseline model for multimodal context aware group affect recognition. CAGNet achieves 63.20% test accuracy on GAViD, comparable to state-of-the art performance in the field. 

NOTE: For now we are providing only Train video clips. The corresponding paper is under Review in Transactions On Computational Social Systems (TCSS) journal. After its publication, the validation and Test set access will be granted upon request and approval, in accordance with the Responsible Use Policy.

Dataset Description

GAViD is a large-scale, in-the-wild multimodal dataset of 5091 samples, each annotated with the elements listed below. The following sections describe its key details and compilation procedure.



Raw video clips of an average duration of five seconds,

Audio aligned with the video clips,

Contextual metadata (scene descriptions, event labels) generated by a multimodal LLM and human-verified,

Group affect labels: ternary valence (positive, neutral, negative) and five discrete emotions (happy, sad, fear, anger, neutral),

Emotion intensity ratings (high, medium, low),

Interaction type labels (cooperative, hostile, neutral),

Action cues (e.g. smiling, clapping, shouting, dancing, singing).


Dataset details



Number of clips (samples) in GAViD-> 5130

Number of samples with some problem-> 39

Number of samples after filtering-> 5,091

Duration per clip-> 5 sec

Clip count per video-> 1–35

Dataset split->  Train: 3503; Val: 542; Test:1046

Affect labels (classwise distribution)-> Positive: 2600; Negative: 1189; Neutral: 1302

Emotion label distribution-> Neutral: 1522; Happy: 2428; Anger: 884; Sad: 201; Fear: 56


Keywords used to rearch the raw videos from YouTube




Positive
Positive
Negative
Negative
Neutral
Neutral


Team Celebration
Happy
Protest
Angry Sport
Group Meeting
Panel Discussion


Group Meeting
Video Conference
Heated Argument
Violent Protest
Parliament speech
People on street


Get Together
Meeting
Emotional breakdown in Public
Aggressive Argument
People walking on street
Team brainstorming Session


Celebration
Press Conference
Spritual Gathering
Aggressive Group
Team Building Activities
Group Discussion


Religious gathering 
Talk Show 
Street Race
Condolence
Group work session
Team Planning session


Farewell
Group Performance 
Group Fight
Wrestling
Students in Discussion
Wedding Group Dance


People Dancing on Street
Street Comedy 
MMA Fight
VIolence
Roundtable Discus-sion
Oath


Wedding Performance
Dhol masti 
Boxing
Silent Protest
Mental health ad-dress
General Talk


Couple group dance
Comedy show
People in the fight
Group Fight
Wedding Celebration
Festival Celebration




Emotion Recognition Results using CAGNet




Model
Val Acc.
Val F1
Test Acc.
Test F1


CAGNet
63.55%
0.464
61.33%
0.458




Components of the Dataset

The dataset comprises two main components:



GAViD_train.csv file: Contains bin number used by labelbox in the annotation process, video_id, group_emotion (Positive, Negative, Neutral), specific_emotion (happy, sad, fear, anger, neutral), emotion_intensity, interaction_type, action_cuse, Video Description genertaed using Video-ChatGPT model.

GAViD_Train_VideoClips.zip folder: Contains the video clips of train set [For Now we are providing only Train video clips. Validation and Test set video clips will be provided as per the request].


Data Format and Fields of the CSV File

The dataset is structured in GAViD.csv file along with corresponding Videos in related folders. This CSV file includes the following fields:



Video_ID: Unique Identifier of a video

Group_Affect: Positive, Negative, Neutral

Descrete_Emotion:  Happy, Sad, Fear, Anger, Neutral

Emotion_Intensity: High, Medium, Low

Interaction_Type: Cooperative, Hostile, Neutral

Action_Cues: e.g. Smiling, Clapping, Shouting, Dancing, Singing etc.

Context: Each video clip's summary generated from the Video-ChatGPT model.


Ethical considerations, data privacy and misuse prevention



Data Collection and Consent: The data collection and annotation strictly followed established ethical protocols in line with YouTube's Terms, which state “Public videos with a Creative Commons license may be reused". We downloaded only public-domain videos licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), which “allows others to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon it for any purpose, even commercially".

Privacy: All content was reviewed to ensure no private or sensitive information is present. Faces are included only from public domain videos as needed for group affect research; only group-level content is released, with no attempt or risk of individual identification. Other personally identifiable information, such asnames and addresses and contacts, was removed.


Code and Citation



Code Repository: https: //github.com/deepakkumar-iitr/GAViD/tree/main

Citing the Dataset: Users of the dataset should cite the corresponding paper described at the above GitHub Repository.


License & Access



This dataset is released for academic research only and is free to researchers from educational or research institutes for non-commercial purposes.

Note that you are downloading this corpus at your own risk. No guarantee is provided, e.g. regarding the goodness of the corpus nor towards any subsequent effects. You may use it free of charge, and modify it as you wish, but clearly specify modifications if you pass modified material on.


Contact

Please send any questions about this dataset to:



Deepak Kumar (d_kumar@cs.iitr.ac.in),

Abhishek Singh (abhishek_s@cs.iitr.ac.in),

Puneet Kumar (puneet.kumar@iitrpr.ac.in),

Xiaobai Li (xiaobai.li@zju.edu.cn),

Balasubramanian Raman (bala@cs.iitr.ac.in).


NOTE: This dataset is released for academic research only and is free to researchers from educational or research institutions for non-commercial purposes.