VitalVideos datasets are available under separate terms for academic research and commercial R&D. This page is a plain-language overview. The signed agreement prevails.

Commercial license Internal R&D use

For companies using the data for internal R&D, model training, evaluation, and product development. Terms are defined in a commercial data license agreement.

  • Permitted: internal R&D, model training, performance evaluation, prototyping.
  • Perpetual,
  • No redistribution, resale, sublicensing, or dataset publication.
  • Use is limited to the licensed entity (and approved affiliates if explicitly included).
  • Security and access control requirements apply.

Commercial requests: email pj@vitalvideos.org with your use case, target dataset(s), applicable ground truths and required sample volume.



Academic license Non-commercial, public research

For universities, research institutes, and hospitals performing non-commercial research. Access typically covers a subset of a dataset, subject to review and a signed agreement.

  • Permitted: academic and publication.
  • No commercial use, product development, IP licensing or paid services based on the data.
  • Stronly encouraged to share code and models publicly.
  • No redistribution or sharing outside the approved research group.
  • Request written permission before showing visual examples.
  • Attribution and citation required in publications and public reports.

Academic access requests: follow the instructions on access datasets.