GenEx-DB-World-Exploration 🎬🌍

This is the video version of the GenEx-DB dataset.

The dataset contains forward navigation path, captured by panoramic cameras. Each path is 0.4m/frame, 50 frames in total. Each example is a single .mp4 video reconstructed from the original frame folders.

📂 Splits

Split Name	Description
realistic	📸 Unreal 5 City Sample renders
low_texture	🏜️ Blender Low-texture synthetic scenes
anime	🌸 Unity Stylized/anime scenes
real_world	🎥 JHU campus handheld collected real-world clips

🏗️ Structure

Genex-DB-Video/
├── low_texture/
│   ├── video001.mp4
│   └── …   
├── realistic/
│   └── …
├── anime/
│   └── …
└── real_world/
    └── …

Each file is named <video_id>.mp4 and contains 50 (or 97 for real_world) frames at 10 FPS.

🚀 Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the “anime” split
ds = load_dataset("videofolder", data_dir="TaiMingLu/Genex-DB-World-Exploration", split="anime")

# Inspect one example
example = ds[0]
print(example["video"].shape)  # (num_frames, height, width, 3)

✨ BibTex

@misc{lu2025genexgeneratingexplorableworld,
      title={GenEx: Generating an Explorable World}, 
      author={Taiming Lu and Tianmin Shu and Junfei Xiao and Luoxin Ye and Jiahao Wang and Cheng Peng and Chen Wei and Daniel Khashabi and Rama Chellappa and Alan Yuille and Jieneng Chen},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2412.09624},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09624}, 
}