# Request: Access to Smoking-CCTV Dataset for YOLOv8-based Smoking Detection

**URL:** https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/request-access-to-smoking-cctv-dataset-for-yolov8-based-smoking-detection/10661
**Category:** 🤝  Community Help
**Created:** [July 23, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/request-access-to-smoking-cctv-dataset-for-yolov8-based-smoking-detection/10661 "2025-07-23T16:12:50Z")
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### Author: ![King\_U](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/king_u/32/7314_2.png) [@King\_U](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/King_U)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/request-access-to-smoking-cctv-dataset-for-yolov8-based-smoking-detection/10661/1 "2025-07-23T16:12:51Z")

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My name is **ali** , and I’m currently working on my graduation project to develop a CCTV-based smoking-behavior detection system using **YOLOv8**. Over the past few months, I have:

1. Collected and annotated several small datasets for cigarette and smoke detection.
2. Trained and evaluated models that achieve promising mAP on my own data.
3. Integrated live video frame-by-frame inference into a prototype application.

I recently came across the **Smoking-CCTV** dataset on Roboflow Universe, which would be invaluable for:

- **Validating** my model’s performance on real CCTV footage.
- **Improving** robustness and reducing false positives in diverse lighting and backgrounds.
- **Benchmarking** against other methods in the community.

Unfortunately, it seems that the dataset is currently private or unavailable. I would be extremely grateful if someone could help me by:

1. **Putting me in touch** with the dataset owner (SmokingDetectionCCTV),
2. **Re-enabling public access** to the full 9,712-image set, or
3. **Providing an alternative download link** or instructions for obtaining the data.

Thank you very much for maintaining these resources and for any assistance you can offer. I’m happy to share my findings and give feedback once I’ve evaluated the dataset!

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### Author: ![Ford](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/ford/32/7747_2.png) [@Ford](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Ford)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/request-access-to-smoking-cctv-dataset-for-yolov8-based-smoking-detection/10661/2 "2025-07-23T17:28:52Z")

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Hi @King_U!  
We are unable to disseminate contact information or provide an alternative download links.

Here is a similar dataset on universe: [CCTV Smoker Dataset and Pre-Trained Model by YOSIBALASI](https://universe.roboflow.com/yosibalasi/cctv-smoker/images/29aQVl0Igf0MnsPiBMxG)

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/request-access-to-smoking-cctv-dataset-for-yolov8-based-smoking-detection/10661/3 "2025-07-30T17:29:05Z")

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