metadata
dataset_info:
- config_name: default
features:
- name: file_name
dtype: string
- name: humor_level_1
dtype: string
- name: humor_level_2
dtype: string
- name: humor_level_3
dtype: string
- name: humor_contribution_most
dtype: string
- name: video_description
dtype: string
- name: humor_explanation
dtype: string
- name: background_knowledge
dtype: string
- name: text_subtitle_presence
dtype: string
- name: humorous_caption_1
dtype: string
- name: humorous_caption_2
dtype: string
- name: humorous_caption_3
dtype: string
- name: entertaining_caption_1
dtype: string
- name: entertaining_caption_2
dtype: string
- name: entertaining_caption_3
dtype: string
- name: VQ_Q
dtype: string
- name: VQ_A
dtype: string
- name: VQ_type
dtype: string
- name: CaptionQ
dtype: string
- name: correct_choice
dtype: string
splits:
- name: vhub
num_bytes: 1067155
num_examples: 960
download_size: 479752
dataset_size: 1067155
configs:
- config_name: vhub
data_files:
- split: test
path: vhub/test-*
v-HUB: A Benchmark for Video Humor Understanding from Vision and Sound
Paper | Github | Project Page
- v-HUB consists of 267 Charlie Chaplin’s silent clips and 951 user-generated funny videos.
- Evaluate the capability of MLLMs in humor understanding through three tasks: humor explanation, open-ended QA, and caption matching.
📝 License
v-HUB is only used for academic research. Commercial use in any form is prohibited.
It contains a collection of funny videos collected from two complementary domains.
Therefore, the copyright of all videos belongs to the video owners.
If there is any infringement in v-HUB, please email shi_zpeng@sjtu.edu.cn and we will remove it immediately.
Without prior approval, you cannot distribute, publish, copy, disseminate, or modify v-HUB in whole or in part.
You must strictly comply with the above restrictions.
Please send an email to shi_zpeng@sjtu.edu.cn.
✒️ Citation
If you find our work helpful for your research, please consider citing our work.
@misc{shi2026vhubbenchmarkvideohumor,
title={v-HUB: A Benchmark for Video Humor Understanding from Vision and Sound},
author={Zhengpeng Shi and Yanpeng Zhao and Jianqun Zhou and Yuxuan Wang and Qinrong Cui and Wei Bi and Songchun Zhu and Bo Zhao and Zilong Zheng},
year={2026},
eprint={2509.25773},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25773},
}