The following gives an overview of the data that is directly available for download. Note, that the full database cannot be put online because of limited bandwidth and storage resources - if you would like to obtain a full copy of the database (including, for example, 3DS-Max animation files, higher-resolution videos, additional camera perspectives for the Natural Recordings, etc.), please contact us.
Scenarios
| ID |
Action |
Scripts |
| 1 | cleaning the kitchen | script |
| 2 | preparing Greek salad | script |
| 3 | setting the table | script |
| 4 | changing the pot of a plant | script |
| 5 | preparing Sangria | script |
| 6 | sending a parcel | script |
Motion Capture Data and Videos
Legend
| Abreviation |
Explanation |
| Motion Capture Data | Motion Capture Data in .bvh (biovision) format for each actor from the pair |
| High Tech Recording | Videos from the high-tech recording |
| Natural Recording | Videos from the natural recording |
| Virtools Videos | Videos recorded in Virtools |
| a1 | Motion Capture information for actor #1 from the pair in .bvh format |
| a2 | Motion Capture information for actor #2 from the pair in .bvh format |
| p1 | Video from perspective #1 |
| p2 | Video from perspective #2 |
| p3 | Video from perspective #3 |
| v1 | Virtools video with avatars and high resolution objects |
| v2 | Virtools video with avatars and low resolution objects |
| v3 | Virtools video with only avatars |
| ViconData | The Vicon data from the high-tech recording |
Data access and license
As per EU rules, this data is made available for free to the research community. If you use the data in your research, please cite the following paper:
Christian Wallraven, Michael Schultze, Betty Mohler, Argiro Vatakis and Katerina Pastra: "The POETICON enacted scenario corpus - a tool for human and
computational experiments on action understanding". The 9th IEEE conference on Authomatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'11), 2011
