SA-Co/VEval Dataset
License each domain has its own License
- SA-Co/VEval - SA-V: CC-BY-NC 4.0
- SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B: CC-BY-NC 4.0
- SA-Co/VEval - SmartGlasses: CC-by-4.0
SA-Co/VEval is an evaluation dataset comprising of 3 domains, each domain has a val and test split.
- SA-Co/VEval - SA-V: videos are from the SA-V dataset
- SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B: videos are from the YT-Temporal-1B
- SA-Co/VEval - SmartGlasses: egocentric videos from Smart Glasses
Environment
Install the SA-Co/VEVal required environment
pip install -e ".[veval]"
This will allow us to run:
scripts/eval/veval/saco_yt1b_downloader.pypreparing frames for SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1Bexamples/saco_veval_eval_example.ipynbexample of running an offline evaluatorexamples/saco_veval_vis_example.ipynbexample of loading and visualizing the data
Download
The expected folder structure
The following folder structure is expected after finishing all the download and pre-processing steps in this section
data/
├── annotation/
│ ├── saco_veval_sav_test.json
│ ├── saco_veval_sav_val.json
│ ├── saco_veval_smartglasses_test.json
│ ├── saco_veval_smartglasses_val.json
│ ├── saco_veval_yt1b_test.json
│ ├── saco_veval_yt1b_val.json
└── media/
├── saco_sav
│ └── JPEGImages_24fps
├── saco_sg
│ └── JPEGImages_6fps
└── saco_yt1b
└── JPEGImages_6fps
Download ready-to-use data
The following links provide ready-to-use data, hosted on Roboflow, after completing the pre-processing steps outlined in the next section.
For each domain:
For all three domains:
Special note on SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B:
- Frame Shifting Alert!
- The ready-to-use data hosted on Roboflow was produced by following the preprocessing steps below. Therefore, the frame-shifting issue for YT-Temporal-1B still exists: due to the nature of Youtube videos, the re-downloaded videos may not be exactly the same as those used during annotation, which can affect eval number reproducibility.
Download via preprocessing steps
Download annotations
The GT annotations are available at Hugging Face:
- SA-Co/VEval
- SA-Co/VEval SA-V
- Test:
annotation/saco_veval_sav_test.json - Val:
annotation/saco_veval_sav_val.json
- Test:
- SA-Co/VEval YT-Temporal-1B
- Test:
annotation/saco_veval_yt1b_test.json - Val:
annotation/saco_veval_yt1b_val.json
- Test:
- SA-Co/VEval SmartGlasses
- Test:
annotation/saco_veval_smartglasses_test.json - Val:
annotation/saco_veval_smartglasses_val.json
- Test:
- SA-Co/VEval SA-V
Download videos or frames
SA-Co/VEval - SAV
Follow instructions in SA-V dataset. Only the following two datasets are needed:
- sav_test.tar
- sav_val.tar
After untar:
sav_test/
├── Annotations_6fps [ignore this is the SAM 2 annotation]
├── JPEGImages_24fps
sav_val/
├── Annotations_6fps [ignore this is the SAM 2 annotation]
└── JPEGImages_24fps
Then merge the two JPEGImages_24fps together to better match our annotation json file path e.g.
media/
└── saco_sav
└── JPEGImages_24fps [merged from the two JPEGImages_24fps above]
Example commands to download and merge folders
cd ../data/media/saco_sav
wget -O sav_test.tar <sav_test.tar download link from the SA-V dataset page>
wget -O sav_val.tar <sav_val.tar download link from the SA-V dataset page>
tar -xf sav_test.tar
tar -xf sav_val.tar
mkdir JPEGImages_24fps
chmod -R u+w sav_test/
chmod -R u+w sav_val/
mv sav_test/JPEGImages_24fps/* JPEGImages_24fps/
mv sav_val/JPEGImages_24fps/* JPEGImages_24fps/
SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B
Two files are needed to download the SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B Youtube videos.
- Download
media/yt1b_start_end_time.jsonfrom SA-Co/VEval, which contains the Youtube video ids and the start and end time used in SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B. - Prepare the
cookies.txtfile. Follow instruction in yt-dlp exporting-youtube-cookies and pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp to prepare the cookies_file.- Please see the full WARNINGS in yt-dlp regarding the risk of Youtube account ban!!
Then run scripts/eval/veval/saco_yt1b_downloader.py to download the videos and prepare the frames e.g.
python saco_yt1b_downloader.py \
--data_dir ../data/media/saco_yt1b \
--cookies_file ../data/media/saco_yt1b/cookies.txt \
--yt1b_start_end_time_file ../data/media/saco_yt1b/yt1b_start_end_time.json \
--yt1b_frame_prep_log_file ../data/media/saco_yt1b/yt1b_frame_prep.log
- data_dir: The directoy to download the Youtube videos and store the extraced frames
- cookies_file: the
cookies.txtdownloaded above - yt1b_start_end_time_file: the
yt1b_start_end_time.jsondownloaded above - yt1b_frame_prep_log_file: a log file to track the video downloading and frame extracting status
Then run scripts/eval/veval/saco_yt1b_annot_update.py to update the annotation based on the video availability e.g.
python saco_yt1b_annot_update.py \
--yt1b_media_dir ../data/media/saco_yt1b/JPEGImages_6fps \
--yt1b_input_annot_path ../data/annotation/saco_veval_yt1b_val.json \
--yt1b_output_annot_path ../data/annotation/saco_veval_yt1b_val_updated.json \
--yt1b_annot_update_log_path ../data/annotation/saco_veval_yt1b_val_updated.log
NOTE:
- Not all Youtube videos might be available as Youtube videos can be deleted or become private. The script
saco_yt1b_annot_update.pyis used to remove the annotations of the unavailable videos. - Frame Shifting Alert!! Even when the videos are still available, their specifications, such as fps and duration, may differ from those used during annotation when re-downloaded from YouTube. Additionally, sometimes
ffmpegseems to find it hard to guarantee consistent frame extraction from the same video across different environments. This may cause the re-downloaded and re-extracted frames to have alignment issues with our annotations due to frame shifting. Please be aware of this caveat when evaluating on SA-Co/VEval - YT-Temporal-1B.
SA-Co/VEval - SmartGlasses
Go to SACo-VEval download media/saco_sg.tar.gz
cd ../data
hf download facebook/SACo-VEval media/saco_sg.tar.gz --repo-type dataset --local-dir .
cd ../data/media
tar -xzf saco_sg.tar.gz
Annotation Format
The format is similar to the YTVIS format.
In the annotation json, e.g. saco_veval_sav_test.json there are 5 fields:
- info:
- A dict containing the dataset info
- E.g. {'version': 'v1', 'date': '2025-09-24', 'description': 'SA-Co/VEval SA-V Test'}
- videos
- A list of videos that are used in the current annotation json
- It contains {id, video_name, file_names, height, width, length}
- annotations
- A list of positive masklets and their related info
- It contains {id, segmentations, bboxes, areas, iscrowd, video_id, height, width, category_id, noun_phrase}
- video_id should match to the
videos - idfield above - category_id should match to the
categories - idfield below - segmentations is a list of RLE
- video_id should match to the
- categories
- A globally used noun phrase id map, which is true across all 3 domains.
- It contains {id, name}
- name is the noun phrase
- video_np_pairs
- A list of video-np pairs, including both positive and negative used in the current annotation json
- It contains {id, video_id, category_id, noun_phrase, num_masklets}
- video_id should match the
videos - idabove - category_id should match the
categories - idabove - when
num_masklets > 0it is a positive video-np pair, and the presenting masklets can be found in the annotations field - when
num_masklets = 0it is a negative video-np pair, meaning no masklet presenting at all
- video_id should match the
data {
"info": info
"videos": [video]
"annotations": [annotation]
"categories": [category]
"video_np_pairs": [video_np_pair]
}
video {
"id": int
"video_name": str # e.g. sav_000000
"file_names": List[str]
"height": int
"width": width
"length": length
}
annotation {
"id": int
"segmentations": List[RLE]
"bboxes": List[List[int, int, int, int]]
"areas": List[int]
"iscrowd": int
"video_id": str
"height": int
"width": int
"category_id": int
"noun_phrase": str
}
category {
"id": int
"name": str
}
video_np_pair {
"id": int
"video_id": str
"category_id": int
"noun_phrase": str
"num_masklets" int
}
sam3/examples/saco_veval_vis_example.ipynb shows some examples of the data format and data visualization.
Run Offline Eval
An example notebook and an eval script have been provided for offline evaluation.
sam3/
├── examples/
│ └── saco_veval_eval_example.ipynb # this notebook will load eval res or run the eval on the fly, and print the results
└── sam3/eval/
└── saco_veval_eval.py # this script will run the offline evaluator
saco_veval_eval.py supports two modes, one and all.
one: will take only one pair of gt and pred files to evalall: will eval on all 6 SACo/VEval datasets
Example usage
python saco_veval_eval.py one \
--gt_annot_file ../sam3/assets/veval/toy_gt_and_pred/toy_saco_veval_sav_test_gt.json \
--pred_file ../sam3/assets/veval/toy_gt_and_pred/toy_saco_veval_sav_test_pred.json \
--eval_res_file ../sam3/assets/veval/toy_gt_and_pred/toy_saco_veval_sav_test_eval_res.json
gt_annot_file: the location of the GT filepred_file: the location of the Pred fileeval_res_file: the location where the eval result will be written to
python saco_veval_eval.py all \
--gt_annot_dir ../data/annotation \
--pred_dir ../data/pred \
--eval_res_dir ../data/pred
gt_annot_dir: the location of the GT filespred_dir: the location of the Pred fileseval_res_dir: the location where the eval results will be written to