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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
pretty_name: Eyes, JAPAN MoCap (Raw)
task_categories:
  - other
tags:
  - motion-capture
  - mocap
  - human-motion
  - animation
  - 3d
  - c3d
  - bvh
  - fbx
  - vicon
  - motion-generation
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
language:
  - en
modalities:
  - 3d
  - video
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: metadata.parquet
extra_gated_prompt: >-
  This dataset is released under CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial research and
  educational use only. By requesting access you agree to (1) use it for
  non-commercial purposes only, (2) credit Eyes, JAPAN in any publication or
  derivative work, and (3) not redistribute the raw data outside these terms.
  For commercial licensing, contact info@nowhere.co.jp.
extra_gated_fields:
  Name: text
  Affiliation: text
  Intended use: text
  I will use this dataset for non-commercial purposes only: checkbox

Eyes, JAPAN MoCap Dataset (Raw)

Professional optical motion-capture data, fully owned and copyrighted by Eyes, JAPAN, released free for non-commercial research and education. Commercial use requires a separate paid license.

4,139 clips / 10,255 files, 45 action categories, 57 subjects, delivered in multiple industry-standard formats.

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 — academic/non-commercial use is free.
Commercial license: purchase required — contact info@nowhere.co.jp.
SMPL-X version: a processed version of this data fitted to SMPL-X body models is available at eyesjapan/eyesjapan-mocap-smplx (different license — see that card).

Dataset structure

├── README.md
├── metadata_clips.csv        # 1 row per clip (recommended entry point)
├── metadata_files.csv        # 1 row per file
└── data/
    ├── free/                 # 2,960 clips
    │   └── <category>/<clip_id>/  e.g. free-accident-dodge-azumi/
    │       ├── 00003-....bip
    │       ├── 00004-....bvh
    │       ├── 00005-....c3d
    │       └── 00006-....fbx
    └── premium/              # 1,179 clips
        └── <category>/<clip_id>/...

Every file has a unique zero-padded 5-digit ID; names follow tier-category-action-subject.

Cleanup before upload: remove the stray ...catwalk-NA.mnm and ...hiphop-combo3-umeda.db (a marker-name-map and a Thumbs.db-type file).

File formats

Ext	Count	Description
`.c3d`	3,963	Raw optical marker data (biomechanics standard)
`.bip`	1,604	3ds Max Character Studio Biped motion
`.csm`	1,067	Character Studio marker file
`.v` / `.vsk`	886 / 255	Vicon raw capture / skeleton calibration
`.bvh`	788	Skeletal animation (hierarchy + rotations)
`.fbx`	690	Autodesk FBX skeletal animation
`.mov` / `.m4v`	886 / 116	Reference video of the capture session

metadata_clips.csv columns

clip_id, tier (free/premium), category (45 categories), action (1,624 labels), subject (57 subjects), formats (e.g. bip,bvh,c3d,fbx), n_files, has_video.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

index = load_dataset("eyesjapan/eyesjapan-mocap", split="train")
walks = index.filter(lambda x: x["category"] == "walk" and "bvh" in x["formats"])

path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="eyesjapan/eyesjapan-mocap", repo_type="dataset",
    filename="data/free/accident/free-accident-dodge-azumi/00004-free-accident-dodge-azumi.bvh",
)

Data collection & consent

Licensing

✅ Academic research, education, personal projects — free under CC BY-NC 4.0
✅ Modification & redistribution — with attribution, same non-commercial terms
❌ Any commercial use without a separate license from Eyes, JAPAN
Commercial licensing: info@nowhere.co.jp

Citation

@misc{eyesjapan_mocap_2026,
  title  = {Eyes, JAPAN MoCap Dataset (Raw)},
  author = {{Eyes, JAPAN}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/eyesjapan/eyesjapan-mocap}
}

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