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- <section class='intro_section' style='background-image: url(https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/background.jpg)'><div class='inner'><div class='hero_desc'><span class='bgpad'><span class="dataset-name">UnConstrained College Students</span> is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos of students on University of Colorado in Colorado Springs campus</span></div><div class='hero_subdesc'><span class='bgpad'>The UnConstrained College Students dataset includes 16,149 images of 1,732 students, faculty, and pedestrians and is used for developing face recognition and face detection algorithms
-</span></div></div></section><section><h2>UnConstrained College Students</h2>
+ <section class='intro_section' style='background-image: url(https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/background.jpg)'></section><section><div class='image'><div class='intro-caption caption'>One of 16,149 images form the UnConstrained College Students face recognition dataset captured at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs</div></div></section><section><h1>UnConstrained College Students</h1>
+<p><em>Update: In response to this report and its previous publication of metadata from UCCS dataset photos, UCCS has temporarily suspended its dataset, but plans to release a new version.</em></p>
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<div class='gray'>Images</div>
<div>16,149 </div>
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<div class='gray'>Website</div>
<div><a href='http://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener'>uccs.edu</a></div>
- </div></div><p>UnConstrained College Students (UCCS) is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos captured at University of Colorado Colorado Springs developed primarily for research and development of "face detection and recognition research towards surveillance applications"<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^uccs_vast]_1"> </a><a href="#[^uccs_vast]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 1">1</a>. According to the authors of <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unconstrained-Face-Detection-and-Open-Set-Face-G%C3%BCnther-Hu/d4f1eb008eb80595bcfdac368e23ae9754e1e745">two</a> <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Large-scale-unconstrained-open-set-face-database-Sapkota-Boult/07fcbae86f7a3ad3ea1cf95178459ee9eaf77cb1">papers</a> associated with the dataset, over 1,700 students and pedestrians were "photographed using a long-range high-resolution surveillance camera without their knowledge".<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^funding_uccs]_1"> </a><a href="#[^funding_uccs]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 3">3</a> This analysis examines the <a href="http://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/">UCCS dataset</a> contents of the <a href="">dataset</a>, its funding sources, timestamp data, and information from publicly available research project citations.</p>
+ </div></div><p>UnConstrained College Students (UCCS) is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos captured at University of Colorado Colorado Springs developed primarily for research and development of "face detection and recognition research towards surveillance applications"<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^uccs_vast]_1"> </a><a href="#[^uccs_vast]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 1">1</a>.</p>
+<p>According to the authors of <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unconstrained-Face-Detection-and-Open-Set-Face-G%C3%BCnther-Hu/d4f1eb008eb80595bcfdac368e23ae9754e1e745">two</a> <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Large-scale-unconstrained-open-set-face-database-Sapkota-Boult/07fcbae86f7a3ad3ea1cf95178459ee9eaf77cb1">papers</a> associated with the dataset, over 1,700 students and pedestrians were "photographed using a long-range high-resolution surveillance camera without their knowledge".<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^funding_uccs]_1"> </a><a href="#[^funding_uccs]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 3">3</a> This analysis examines the <a href="http://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/">UCCS dataset</a> contents of the <a href="">dataset</a>, its funding sources, timestamp data, and information from publicly available research project citations.</p>
<p>The UCCS dataset includes over 1,700 unique identities, most of which are students walking to and from class. In 2018, it was the "largest surveillance [face recognition] benchmark in the public domain."<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^surv_face_qmul]_1"> </a><a href="#[^surv_face_qmul]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 4">4</a> The photos were taken during the spring semesters of 2012 &ndash; 2013 on the West Lawn of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus. The photographs were timed to capture students during breaks between their scheduled classes in the morning and afternoon during Monday through Thursday. "For example, a student taking Monday-Wednesday classes at 12:30 PM will show up in the camera on almost every Monday and Wednesday."<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^sapkota_boult]_1"> </a><a href="#[^sapkota_boult]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 2">2</a>.</p>
</section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/uccs_map_aerial.jpg' alt=' The location at University of Colorado Colorado Springs where students were surreptitiously photographed with a long-range surveillance camera for use in a defense and intelligence agency funded research project on face recognition. Image: Google Maps'><div class='caption'> The location at University of Colorado Colorado Springs where students were surreptitiously photographed with a long-range surveillance camera for use in a defense and intelligence agency funded research project on face recognition. Image: Google Maps</div></div></section><section><p>The long-range surveillance images in the UnConsrained College Students dataset were taken using a Canon 7D 18-megapixel digital camera fitted with a Sigma 800mm F5.6 EX APO DG HSM telephoto lens and pointed out an office window across the university's West Lawn. The students were photographed from a distance of approximately 150 meters through an office window. "The camera [was] programmed to start capturing images at specific time intervals between classes to maximize the number of faces being captured."<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^sapkota_boult]_2"> </a><a href="#[^sapkota_boult]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 2">2</a>
Their setup made it impossible for students to know they were being photographed, providing the researchers with realistic surveillance images to help build face recognition systems for real world applications for defense, intelligence, and commercial partners.</p>
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- <h3>Information Supply chain</h3>
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- To help understand how UCCS has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing UnConstrained College Students Dataset was collected, verified, and geocoded to show the biometric trade routes of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal research projects at that location.
+ To help understand how UCCS has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing UnConstrained College Students Dataset was collected, verified, and geocoded to show how AI training data has proliferated around the world. Click on the markers to reveal research projects at that location.
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