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| author | Jules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2019-04-19 16:27:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Jules Laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2019-04-19 16:27:50 +0200 |
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diff --git a/site/public/datasets/duke_mtmc/index.html b/site/public/datasets/duke_mtmc/index.html index e43c99ef..24789730 100644 --- a/site/public/datasets/duke_mtmc/index.html +++ b/site/public/datasets/duke_mtmc/index.html @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ </div><div class='meta'> <div class='gray'>Website</div> <div><a href='http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener'>duke.edu</a></div> - </div></div><p>Duke MTMC (Multi-Target, Multi-Camera) is a dataset of surveillance video footage taken on Duke University's campus in 2014 and is used for research and development of video tracking systems, person re-identification, and low-resolution facial recognition. The dataset contains over 14 hours of synchronized surveillance video from 8 cameras at 1080p and 60FPS with over 2 million frames of 2,000 students walking to and from classes. The 8 surveillance cameras deployed on campus were specifically setup to capture students "during periods between lectures, when pedestrian traffic is heavy"<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^duke_mtmc_orig]_1"> </a><a href="#[^duke_mtmc_orig]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 1">1</a>.</p> + </div></div><p>Duke MTMC (Multi-Target, Multi-Camera) is a dataset of surveillance video footage taken on Duke University's campus in 2014 and is used for research and development of video tracking systems, person re-identification, and low-resolution facial recognition. The dataset contains over 14 hours of synchronized surveillance video from 8 cameras at 1080p and 60 FPS, with over 2 million frames of 2,000 students walking to and from classes. The 8 surveillance cameras deployed on campus were specifically setup to capture students "during periods between lectures, when pedestrian traffic is heavy"<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^duke_mtmc_orig]_1"> </a><a href="#[^duke_mtmc_orig]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 1">1</a>.</p> <p>In this investigation into the Duke MTMC dataset we tracked down over 100 publicly available research papers that explicitly acknowledged using Duke MTMC. Our analysis shows that the dataset has spread far beyond its origins and intentions in academic research projects at Duke University. Since its publication in 2016, more than twice as many research citations originated in China as in the United States. Among these citations were papers with explicit and direct links to the Chinese military and several of the companies known to provide Chinese authorities with the oppressive surveillance technology used to monitor millions of Uighur Muslims.</p> <p>In one 2018 <a href="http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Xu_Attention-Aware_Compositional_Network_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf">paper</a> jointly published by researchers from SenseNets and SenseTime (and funded by SenseTime Group Limited) entitled <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Attention-Aware-Compositional-Network-for-Person-Xu-Zhao/14ce502bc19b225466126b256511f9c05cadcb6e">Attention-Aware Compositional Network for Person Re-identification</a>, the Duke MTMC dataset was used for "extensive experiments" on improving person re-identification across multiple surveillance cameras with important applications in "finding missing elderly and children, and suspect tracking, etc." Both SenseNets and SenseTime have been directly linked to the providing surveillance technology to monitor Uighur Muslims in China. <a class="footnote_shim" name="[^xinjiang_nyt]_1"> </a><a href="#[^xinjiang_nyt]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 4">4</a><a class="footnote_shim" name="[^sensetime_qz]_1"> </a><a href="#[^sensetime_qz]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 2">2</a><a class="footnote_shim" name="[^sensenets_uyghurs]_1"> </a><a href="#[^sensenets_uyghurs]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 3">3</a></p> </section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/duke_mtmc/assets/duke_mtmc_reid_montage.jpg' alt=' A collection of 1,600 out of the approximately 2,000 students and pedestrians in the Duke MTMC dataset. These students were also included in the Duke MTMC Re-ID dataset extension used for person re-identification, and eventually the QMUL SurvFace face recognition dataset. Open Data Commons Attribution License.'><div class='caption'> A collection of 1,600 out of the approximately 2,000 students and pedestrians in the Duke MTMC dataset. These students were also included in the Duke MTMC Re-ID dataset extension used for person re-identification, and eventually the QMUL SurvFace face recognition dataset. Open Data Commons Attribution License.</div></div></section><section><p>Despite <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/19/china-police-big-data-systems-violate-privacy-target-dissent">repeated</a> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/26/china-big-data-fuels-crackdown-minority-region">warnings</a> by Human Rights Watch that the authoritarian surveillance used in China represents a violation of human rights, researchers at Duke University continued to provide open access to their dataset for anyone to use for any project. As the surveillance crisis in China grew, so did the number of citations with links to organizations complicit in the crisis. In 2018 alone there were over 70 research projects happening in China that publicly acknowledged benefiting from the Duke MTMC dataset. Amongst these were projects from SenseNets, SenseTime, CloudWalk, Megvii, Beihang University, and the PLA's National University of Defense Technology.</p> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ </tr> </tbody> </table> -<p>The reasons that companies in China use the Duke MTMC dataset for research are technically no different than the reasons it is used in the United States and Europe. In fact, the original creators of the dataset published a follow up report in 2017 titled <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Tracking-Social-Groups-Within-and-Across-Cameras-Solera-Calderara/9e644b1e33dd9367be167eb9d832174004840400">Tracking Social Groups Within and Across Cameras</a> with specific applications to "automated analysis of crowds and social gatherings for surveillance and security applications". Their work, as well as the creation of the original dataset in 2014 were both supported in part by the United States Army Research Laboratory.</p> +<p>The reasons that companies in China use the Duke MTMC dataset for research are technically no different than the reasons it is used in the United States and Europe. In fact, the original creators of the dataset published a follow up report in 2017 titled "<a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Tracking-Social-Groups-Within-and-Across-Cameras-Solera-Calderara/9e644b1e33dd9367be167eb9d832174004840400">Tracking Social Groups Within and Across Cameras</a>" with specific applications to "automated analysis of crowds and social gatherings for surveillance and security applications". Their work, as well as the creation of the original dataset in 2014 were both supported in part by the United States Army Research Laboratory.</p> <p>Citations from the United States and Europe show a similar trend to that in China, including publicly acknowledged and verified usage of the Duke MTMC dataset supported or carried out by the United States Department of Homeland Security, IARPA, IBM, Microsoft (who has provided surveillance to ICE), and Vision Semantics (who has worked with the UK Ministry of Defence). One <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/59f3/57015054bab43fb8cbfd3f3dbf17b1d1f881.pdf">paper</a> is even jointly published by researchers affiliated with both the University College of London and the National University of Defense Technology in China.</p> <table> <thead><tr> |
