Instructional Cooking Video Dataset
Explore a purpose-built 4K instructional video dataset showing people cooking and preparing food at home while providing synchronized English spoken instructions. The collection contains approximately 52 minutes of procedural activity captured at 4096 × 2160 and 24 fps.
Visible cooking actions, human-object interactions and sequential task progression are paired with English instructional audio and scripts, supporting procedural task understanding, language-action alignment, robotics, embodied AI and multimodal video understanding.
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Representative samples show home cooking procedures with visible sequential actions, object interactions and synchronized English spoken instructions.
Representative samples show home cooking procedures with visible sequential actions, object interactions and synchronized English spoken instructions.
Key Highlights
- • Purpose-built 4K instructional cooking video
- • Approximately 52 minutes of procedural footage
- • Real-world home cooking and food preparation activities
- • English spoken instructions synchronized with visible actions
- • English instructional scripts
- • Continuous sequential cooking procedures
- • Human-object interaction with ingredients, utensils and cookware
- • 4096 × 2160 video at 24 fps
- • ProRes 422 MOV video
- • Raw footage available
- • Human-authored descriptive metadata currently in production
Metadata Fields
Technical Specifications
Dataset Type
Instructional Cooking Video Dataset
Content Type
Human cooking activities with synchronized spoken instructions
Environment
Home cooking environments
Total Duration
Approximately 52 minutes
Video Resolution
4096 × 2160
Frame Rate
24 fps
Codec
ProRes 422
Container
MOV
Spoken Language
English
Audio Content
Human spoken cooking instructions
Audio
Stereo, 48 kHz
Instructional Script
English
Task Structure
Continuous procedural cooking activities
Interaction Focus
Human actions, object manipulation and food preparation workflows
Raw Footage
Available
Metadata Status
Currently in production
Metadata Format
CSV available on request
Metadata Scope
Human-authored titles, detailed activity descriptions, keyword tagging, technical metadata and structured categorisation
Licensing, Documentation, and Delivery
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