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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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