| --- |
| license: other |
| license_name: nvidia-evaluation-data-license |
| license_link: LICENSE |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: VANTAGE-Bench |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| task_categories: |
| - visual-question-answering |
| - video-text-to-text |
| - image-text-to-text |
| - object-detection |
| - multiple-choice |
| task_ids: |
| - visual-question-answering |
| - image-captioning |
| - multiple-choice-qa |
| tags: |
| - video |
| - image |
| - text |
| - multimodal |
| - video-understanding |
| - image-understanding |
| - benchmark |
| - evaluation |
| - infrastructure-cameras |
| - warehouse |
| - smart-city |
| - intelligent-transportation-systems |
| - smart-spaces |
| configs: |
| - config_name: vqa |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/vqa/data_jsons/annotations/*.json |
| - config_name: temporal_localization |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/temporal_localization/data_jsons/annotations/*.json |
| - config_name: event_verification |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/event_verification/data_jsons/annotations/*.json |
| - config_name: referring |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/referring/refdrone_test_llava.json |
| - config_name: pointing |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/pointing/VANTAGE_2DPointing.jsonl |
| - config_name: tracking |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/tracking/sot_benchmark.jsonl |
| - config_name: 2dbbox |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/2dbbox/metadata.jsonl |
| - config_name: dense_captioning |
| data_files: |
| - split: test |
| path: data/dense_captioning/metadata.jsonl |
| --- |
| |
| # VANTAGE-Bench |
|
|
| *Video ANalysis Tasks Across Generalized Environments* |
|
|
| **3 domains · 8 tasks · 35,027 annotations · 3,346 media samples · 42 GB** |
|
|
| <img src="./assets/vantage_bench_tasks.png" alt="VANTAGE-Bench task overview across Semantic, Temporal, Spatial, and Spatio-Temporal understanding categories" width="100%"> |
|
|
| ## Dataset Description |
|
|
| VANTAGE-Bench is the first public benchmark purpose-built for evaluating visual understanding on video captured by fixed infrastructure cameras. It spans three real-world domains — warehouse, smart city / Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and smart spaces — across 8 tasks spanning semantic, temporal, spatial, and spatio-temporal evaluation, including video question answering (VQA), temporal localization, dense video captioning (DVC), event verification, spatial pointing, referring expressions, and spatio-temporal tracking. Unlike ordinary web video, this footage comes from fixed, infrastructure-mounted viewpoints — persistent scenes under long-duration monitoring that demand reasoning over stationary warehouse, ITS, and smart-space environments. |
|
|
| > **Evaluation-only / test split.** Ground-truth answers are withheld and all scoring is performed server-side — this dataset repository does not provide local benchmark scoring. |
|
|
| ### Directory Structure |
|
|
| ```text |
| PhysicalAI-VANTAGE-Bench/ |
| ├── data/ |
| │ ├── 2dbbox/ # 2D object localization |
| │ ├── dense_captioning/ # Dense video captioning |
| │ ├── event_verification/ # Event verification |
| │ ├── pointing/ # 2D spatial pointing |
| │ ├── referring/ # 2D referring expressions |
| │ ├── temporal_localization/ # Temporal localization |
| │ ├── tracking/ # Single object tracking |
| │ └── vqa/ # Video question answering |
| │ |
| ├── scripts/ |
| │ ├── run_lmudata.py # Prepare benchmark datasets |
| │ └── RUN_LMUData.md # Setup and usage guide |
| │ |
| └── README.md # Dataset documentation |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Get Started |
|
|
| This repository contains the official VANTAGE-Bench dataset and data schemas. For benchmark documentation, submissions, and leaderboard results, use the resources below: |
|
|
| - **[VANTAGE-Bench's official website](https://vantage-bench.org/)** — detailed overview of VANTAGE-Bench, the benchmark suite, and submission entry points. |
| - **[VANTAGE-Bench GitHub repository](https://github.com/Clemson-Capstone/VANTAGE-Bench)** — run guides, inference workflows, submission formats, and benchmark tooling. |
| - **[Hugging Face leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/clemson-computing/VANTAGE-Bench-Leaderboard)** — currently ranked and highlighted models, and accepted user-submission results. |
|
|
| ## Quick Start |
|
|
| This repository ships the **test-split media and question-side annotations**; |
| ground-truth answers are withheld for server-side scoring. VANTAGE-Bench's evaluation |
| toolkit expects benchmark datasets to be organized using a standard directory structure |
| called LMUData. To build an inference-ready LMUData layout across every task: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| python scripts/run_lmudata.py --all --lmu-root ~/LMUData |
| ``` |
|
|
| Run from a clone of this dataset repo, the script auto-uses the local `data/` |
| folder; otherwise it downloads the public dataset from Hugging Face. Two tasks |
| fetch external media during this step — 2D Referring Expressions |
| (RefDrone / VisDrone images) and Single Object Tracking (PhysicalAI-SmartSpaces |
| videos; needs `ffmpeg` and an HF token). See |
| [scripts/RUN_LMUData.md](./scripts/RUN_LMUData.md) for full setup, disk |
| requirements, per-task notes, and troubleshooting. |
|
|
| ### What the setup produces |
|
|
| `run_lmudata.py` automates the inference-prep step end to end. It sources the |
| public dataset (an auto-detected local `data/` clone, an explicit |
| `--local-source`, or a Hugging Face snapshot), builds each task's |
| index file (`*.tsv` / `annotations.json`), and places the media by symlink |
| (default) or `--copy`. It writes **no** ground-truth fields — withheld answers |
| are left empty — and is idempotent, so re-runs only fill in what is missing. |
|
|
| Most tasks need nothing beyond the command above. Two have extra prerequisites, |
| which the script handles automatically when they are met: |
|
|
| - **Single Object Tracking** — downloads source videos from `nvidia/PhysicalAI-SmartSpaces` and extracts frames with `ffmpeg`; needs an HF token with read access to that (gated) dataset. |
| - **2D Referring Expressions (grounding)** — downloads the RefDrone / VisDrone images over the network. |
|
|
| Under `--all`, a task that cannot meet its prerequisites is skipped while the |
| others continue. The result is a inference-ready layout under |
| `<LMUData root>/datasets/`: |
|
|
| ```text |
| LMUData/ |
| └── datasets/ |
| ├── Astro2D/ |
| ├── VANTAGE_2DGrounding/ |
| ├── VANTAGE_2DPointing/ |
| ├── VANTAGE_DVC/ |
| ├── VANTAGE_EventVerification/ |
| ├── VANTAGE_SOT/ |
| ├── VANTAGE_Temporal/ |
| └── VANTAGE_VQA/ |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Dataset Characterization |
|
|
| **Data Collection Method**<br> |
| Hybrid: Human, Synthetic, Automated. Video data is sourced from vendor-provided footage (GoPro captures of warehouse and smart space environments), synthetic generation (DriveSim collision and multi-camera scenarios), and publicly scraped sources (Dubuque highway/ITS footage). |
|
|
| **Labeling Method**<br> |
| Hybrid: Human, Synthetic, Pseudolabeled. Annotations for VQA, dense video captions, and temporal localization are primarily human-authored. Spatial grounding labels (2D/3D bounding boxes, referring expressions) use a combination of human annotation and pseudolabeling pipelines (detection + SAM for spatial pointing). Event verification labels are human-curated. Annotations are held server-side for evaluation only. |
|
|
| ## Evaluation |
|
|
| ### Tasks and Submission Formats |
|
|
| | Category | Task | Metric | |
| |----------|------|--------| |
| | Semantic | VQA | Accuracy | |
| | Semantic | Event Verification | Macro F1 | |
| | Temporal | Dense Video Captioning | SODA-c | |
| | Temporal | Temporal Localization | mIoU | |
| | Spatial | 2D Object Localization | F1@IoU=0.5 | |
| | Spatial | 2D Referring Expressions | mIoU | |
| | Spatial | 2D Spatial Pointing | Accuracy | |
| | Spatio-Temporal | Single Object Tracking | AUC | |
|
|
| See [Submission Format](#submission-format) for the expected prediction schema. Results are submitted through the [official website](https://vantage-bench.org/) and ranked on the [Hugging Face leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/clemson-computing/VANTAGE-Bench-Leaderboard). |
|
|
| ### Metric Notes |
|
|
| - **Accuracy**: Percentage of correct predictions. |
| - **SODA-c**: Metric for dense video captioning quality across event coverage and language quality. |
| - **Macro F1**: Unweighted mean of per-class F1 scores (harmonic mean of precision and recall). |
| - **F1@IoU=0.5**: F1 score at an IoU threshold of 0.5. |
| - **mIoU**: Mean Intersection over Union — average overlap between predicted and ground-truth bounding boxes (also used for temporal localization spans). |
| - **AUC**: Area under the ROC curve, measuring the model's ability to distinguish correct detections or tracks from incorrect ones across varying confidence thresholds. |
|
|
| ### Generating Predictions |
|
|
| This dataset repository provides data and schemas only; it does **not** score |
| predictions. Ground-truth answers are withheld and scoring happens server-side. |
| The end-to-end workflow is: |
|
|
| 1. Prepare an inference-ready LMUData layout (see [Quick Start](#quick-start)): |
|
|
| ```bash |
| python scripts/run_lmudata.py --all --lmu-root ~/LMUData |
| ``` |
|
|
| 2. Run inference using VANTAGE-Bench's evaluation toolkit. Each run emits a |
| `*.submission.jsonl` of predictions. |
| 3. Submit the predictions through the flow documented on |
| [VANTAGE-Bench's official website](https://vantage-bench.org/) and in the |
| [GitHub run guides](https://github.com/Clemson-Capstone/VANTAGE-Bench). |
| Accepted submissions are scored server-side and ranked on the |
| [Hugging Face leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/clemson-computing/VANTAGE-Bench-Leaderboard). |
|
|
| See [scripts/RUN_LMUData.md](./scripts/RUN_LMUData.md) for setup, disk |
| requirements, troubleshooting, and task-specific notes. |
|
|
| ### Submission Format |
|
|
| Each prediction is a single JSON record (one record per line in the submission |
| JSONL): |
|
|
| ```json |
| { |
| "id": "<task_specific_id>", |
| "task": "<task_name>", |
| "conversations": [ |
| { |
| "from": "assistant", |
| "value": "<raw_model_prediction>" |
| } |
| ], |
| "metadata": { |
| "model": "<model_name>", |
| "extra": {} |
| } |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| The authoritative, per-task submission specification lives in the |
| [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Clemson-Capstone/VANTAGE-Bench) and |
| [scripts/RUN_LMUData.md](./scripts/RUN_LMUData.md). Submit through the entry |
| points on the [official website](https://vantage-bench.org/); this repository |
| performs no scoring or ranking. |
|
|
| ## Dataset Format |
|
|
| Video (mp4) and images (jpg). Only the **input side** of each annotation ships; ground-truth answers are withheld. For example, a VQA record carries just the question and options: |
|
|
| ```json |
| { |
| "q_uid": "GX010071_Clip_4.mp4", |
| "question": "How many people can exit the door at once while walking?", |
| "options": ["4", "all", "3", "2"] |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| Field names vary by task (see [data/README.md](./data/README.md)); no record includes an answer or ground-truth label. |
|
|
| ## Dataset Quantification |
|
|
| | Category | Task | Media | Entries | |
| |----------|------|-------|---------| |
| | Semantic | VQA | 282 videos | 1,195 QAs (MCQ) | |
| | Semantic | Event Verification | 163 videos | 163 QAs (BCQ) | |
| | Temporal | Dense Video Captioning | 104 videos | 717 Events | |
| | Temporal | Temporal Localization | 203 videos | 1,067 Segments / Spans | |
| | Spatial | 2D Object Localization | 628 images (3 video sequences) | 27,404 Bboxes | |
| | Spatial | 2D Referring Expressions | 1,503 images | 3,276 Expressions | |
| | Spatial | 2D Spatial Pointing | 361 images | 1,005 QAs (MCQ) | |
| | Spatio-Temporal | Single Object Tracking | 102 video clips | 200 Trajectories | |
|
|
| **Total Entries (Annotations):** 35,027 |
| **Total Media Samples (across tasks, with overlaps):** 3,346 |
| **Total Data Storage:** 42 GB |
|
|
| ## Disclaimers |
|
|
| ### Potential Known Risks |
|
|
| - Ground truth annotations are not publicly released. All evaluation is performed server-side. |
| - Some warehouse videos are concatenated clips from longer recording sessions. |
|
|
| ### Ethical Considerations |
|
|
| NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. When downloaded or used in accordance with our terms of service, developers should work with their internal developer teams to ensure this dataset meets requirements for the relevant industry and use case and addresses unforeseen product misuse. |
|
|
| Please report quality, risk, security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI Concerns [here](https://app.intigriti.com/programs/nvidia/nvidiavdp/detail). |
|
|
| ### References |
|
|
| - [VANTAGE-Bench's official website](https://vantage-bench.org/) |
| - [VANTAGE-Bench GitHub repository](https://github.com/Clemson-Capstone/VANTAGE-Bench) |
| - [Hugging Face leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/clemson-computing/VANTAGE-Bench-Leaderboard) |
| - [Hugging Face dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/PhysicalAI-VANTAGE-Bench) |
|
|
| ### Citations |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @article{Sun2025RefDrone, |
| author = {Zhichao Sun and Yuda Zou and Xian Sun and Yingchao Feng and Wenhui Diao and Menglong Yan and Kun Fu}, |
| title = {{RefDrone}: A Challenging Benchmark for Referring Expression Comprehension in Drone Scenes}, |
| journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00392}, |
| year = {2025} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### License/Terms of Use |
|
|
| This dataset is released under the [NVIDIA Evaluation Data License](./LICENSE.md). |
|
|
| ## Dataset Owner(s) |
|
|
| NVIDIA Corporation |
|
|
| ## Dataset Creation Date |
|
|
| April 24, 2026 |
|
|
| ## Changelog |
|
|
| See [CHANGELOG.md](./CHANGELOG.md) for release history. |
|
|
