VitalVideos-Worldwide is a large-scale, geographically and skin-tone balanced dataset for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) and contactless vital sign measurement from facial video, designed as a reference-quality dataset for both academic research and industrial R&D.

It combines high-quality multicamera facial video with rich, synchronized physiological ground truth, collected under carefully controlled protocols across multiple continents.

Access: This dataset is not publicly downloadable due to privacy regulations (identifiable faces in videos).
Access is granted under academic or commercial license upon request.

Dataset summary

Participants: ≈ 6,500
Geographic coverage: Europe, Africa, South Asia
Skin tone representation: Balanced across Fitzpatrick I–VI
Recording quality: State-of-the-art video and ground-truth fidelity
Use cases:
- High-accuracy rPPG model development
- Cross-demographic robustness analysis
- Blood-pressure estimation research
- Foundational PPG and physiology model training
- Benchmarking against clinical-grade reference signals

Data modalities

Video

RGB facial video
60 s recordings
60 fps
Multicamera setup:
- Industrial cameras (Basler)
- Smartphone camera (iPhone 15 Pro)
Controlled lighting and positioning
High bitrate, minimally compressed formats

Physiological ground truth

Depending on the subset, the dataset includes:

2x PPG waveform (≈60 Hz and research-grade 500 Hz)
Heart rate (HR)
Oxygen saturation (SpO₂)
Blood pressure (systolic & diastolic)
Respiration waveform (500 Hz)
3-lead ECG (500 Hz)

All physiological signals are precisely time-synchronized with the video.

Dataset structure (high-level)

Data are organized per participant and scenario, including:

Facial video files (.mp4 / .mov)
Time-aligned physiological signals (.json)
Metadata: age, gender, Fitzpatrick skin type, recording conditions

Detailed file structure and specifications are provided upon access approval.

Intended use

Allowed

Academic research and publication
Industry R&D (commercial license)
Model training, validation, and benchmarking
Demographic and cross-dataset analysis

Not allowed

Redistribution or public release of the dataset
Publishing raw video frames or identifiable samples
Training models intended for biometric identification
Use outside the scope of the signed license agreement

Licensing

This dataset is distributed under custom academic and commercial licenses.

Academic license: non-commercial research use by verified institutions
Commercial license: internal R&D use by companies

General license terms:
https://vitalvideos.org/license.html

How to request access

Academic: Follow the instructions on the VitalVideos website and submit the academic request form from your institutional email.
Commercial: Contact [email protected] with your use case, target subset(s), and intended scope.

Website: https://vitalvideos.org

Citation

If you use this dataset in academic work, please cite:

P.-J. Toye, VitalVideos-Worldwide: A large and diverse rPPG dataset with rich ground truths,
ICCV 2025 Workshop on Computer Vision for Physiological Measurement.

Link:
https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025W/CVPM/html/Toye_VitalVideos-Worldwide_A_large_and_diverse_rPPG_dataset_with_rich_ground_ICCVW_2025_paper.html

Contact

For access requests or questions:

[email protected]

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