MOSMON-Larvae: Raw DJI Osmo Action 5 Videos of Mosquito Larvae

This record contains the raw high-resolution source videos acquired with DJI Osmo Action 5 cameras as part of the MOSMON-Larvae dataset. MOSMON-Larvae is a multispecies mosquito-larvae dataset developed to support computer-vision research on larval detection, tracking, motion analysis, and automated vector surveillance. The videos in this record were collected under controlled indoor laboratory conditions while preserving naturalistic aquatic variability, including changes in illumination, water turbidity, reflections, larval density, container configuration, and camera viewpoint. The recordings include mosquito larvae from medically relevant species represented in the MOSMON-Larvae acquisition campaign, including Aedes albopictus, Aedes aegypti, Culex pipiens, and Anopheles stephensi, depending on the individual recording. Larvae were primarily recorded at developmental stages 3–4. Species identity and acquisition conditions are encoded in the original filenames. The files provided in this record are raw video recordings only. They have not been cropped, resized, annotated, re-encoded, or otherwise preprocessed. This release is intended to provide reproducible access to the original video material and to support downstream tasks such as frame extraction, temporal detection, larval tracking, behavior analysis, video-based benchmarking, and extension of the MOSMON-Larvae dataset. This record contains 17 MP4 video files uploaded with shortened filenames: dji_osmoaction5_001.mp4 to dji_osmoaction5_017.mp4 filename_mapping.tsv: mapping between the shortened Zenodo filenames and the original acquisition filenames checksums.sha256: SHA256 checksums for file-integrity verification video_recap_report and video_recap_table: brief video recap files with original acquisition filenames, when provided The original filenames contain structured acquisition metadata, including recording date, project identifier, species, larval stage, camera model, recording resolution and frame rate, stabilization or lens configuration, lighting condition, camera position, container type, and water depth. Users should consult filename_mapping.tsv to recover the original filename and associated metadata for each video. Videos were acquired using commercially available DJI Osmo Action 5 action-camera hardware in a controlled indoor laboratory environment. During acquisition, the camera optics were positioned underwater to record mosquito larvae directly within aquatic containers. Recording conditions varied across sessions to capture realistic visual variability, including illumination changes, turbidity, reflections, larval density, container geometry, and camera placement. The recordings are provided as MP4 files encoded with HEVC/H.265 compression and contain no audio streams. Resolution and frame rate vary across videos and are indicated in the original filenames when available. Recommended use - These raw videos are suitable for: mosquito-larvae detection in video sequences; larval tracking and motion-analysis research; temporal object-detection benchmarking; frame extraction for additional annotation campaigns; domain-adaptation studies between still-image and video-based larval surveillance; reproducibility checks of the MOSMON-Larvae acquisition workflow. For machine-learning experiments, users should account for temporal correlation between adjacent frames. When extracting frames for model training and evaluation, video-disjoint splits are recommended to reduce leakage between temporally related samples. File integrity - Downloaded files can be verified with: sha256sum -c checksums.sha256 Related dataset - This record is associated with the broader MOSMON-Larvae dataset, which includes high-resolution annotated images, COCO and YOLO bounding-box annotations, extracted frames, metadata, and processing scripts. This Zenodo record specifically provides the raw DJI Osmo Action 5 video subset. Please see also: G. Di Lorenzo et al., “MOSMON-Larvae: Raw Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Videos of Mosquito Larvae”. Zenodo, Jun. 22, 2026. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20803118. G. Di Lorenzo et al., “MOSMON-Larvae: Raw GoPro Hero 11 Videos of Mosquito Larvae”. Zenodo, Jun. 23, 2026. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20815841. G. DI Lorenzo et al., “MOSMON-Larvae: Raw GoPro Hero 13 Videos of Mosquito Larvae”. Zenodo, Jun. 23, 2026. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20819747. G. Di Lorenzo et al., “MOSMON-Larvae”. Zenodo, Jun. 24, 2026. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20821176. Citation - If you use these videos, please cite this Zenodo record and the associated MOSMON-Larvae dataset or paper when available.