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  non-commercial research. Requests are reviewed manually and may take a few
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# BVD-V-55M

This repository contains **55 million scene-level video clips**, extracted via content-aware scene detection from a randomly
sampled subset of 2.4M source videos in BVD-RAW. Each clip comes with a caption, its language, and
the timestamps locating it in the source video.

The dataset is **gated** — see [Requesting access](#requesting-access) below.

## Requesting access

This dataset is gated. Access to **all** gated LAION-BVD subsets is granted through a
single, central access request — you only need to submit it once:

**➡️ [LAION-BVD access request form](https://forms.gle/5tXPS4gmBwSGYYbV8)**

1. Fill in the central form (institutional affiliation, intended use, license agreement).
2. Click **Request Access** on this page using the same Hugging Face account you gave in the form.
3. Requests are reviewed manually on a rolling basis; approval usually takes a few days.

Access is restricted to academic and non-commercial research use.

## Relation to LAION-BVD

| Release | Description |
|---|---|
| [laion/BVD-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-URLs) | 1.3B video URLs extracted from CommonCrawl |
| [laion/BVD-RAW-Index](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-RAW-Index) | File index of the ~80M downloaded raw videos (media by request) |
| **laion/BVD-V-55M** (this dataset) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-V-55M-URLs) | 55M scene-level video clips with captions and timestamps |
| [laion/BVD-A-10M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-10M) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-10M-URLs) | 10M audio clips randomly sampled from BVD-V-55M |
| [laion/BVD-A-1.7M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-1.7M) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-A-1.7M-URLs) | 1.7M audio clips from BVD-V-55M with unique source videos |
| [laion/BVD-I-300M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-I-300M) / [-URLs](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/BVD-I-300M-URLs) | 300M keyframes sampled from BVD-RAW |

BVD-RAW itself (the raw pool of 80M videos totalling 10M hours) is not distributed through
Hugging Face. The gated subsets and BVD-RAW are available to academic and non-commercial
researchers through a single central [access request form](https://forms.gle/5tXPS4gmBwSGYYbV8); the
[BVD-RAW access guide](https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/bvd-raw-access.html) describes the raw-corpus transfer procedure.

## Links

- Project page: <https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/>
- Paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24845>
- Code: <https://github.com/LAION-AI/bvd>
- Terms of Use: [bvd_terms_of_use.pdf](https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/assets/bvd_terms_of_use.pdf)
- Access request form: <https://forms.gle/5tXPS4gmBwSGYYbV8>