The Video2GIF dataset contains over 100,000 pairs of GIFs and their source videos. The GIFs were collected from two popular GIF websites (makeagif.com, gifsoup.com) and the corresponding source videos were collected from YouTube in Summer 2015. IDs and URLs of the GIFs and the videos are provided, along with temporal alignment of GIF segments to their source videos. The dataset shall be used to evaluate GIF creation and video highlight techniques.

In addition to the 100K GIF-video pairs, the dataset contains 357 pairs of GIFs and their source videos as the test set. The 357 videos come with a Creative Commons CC-BY license, which allowed the authors to redistribute the material with appropriate credit to make the results on test set reproducible even when some of the videos become unavailable.