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diff --git a/site/public/datasets/brainwash/index.html b/site/public/datasets/brainwash/index.html index 452745de..5a3ba175 100644 --- a/site/public/datasets/brainwash/index.html +++ b/site/public/datasets/brainwash/index.html @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ </div></div><p>Brainwash is a dataset of livecam images taken from San Francisco's Brainwash Cafe. It includes 11,917 images of "everyday life of a busy downtown cafe"<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^readme]_1"> </a><a href="#[^readme]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 1">1</a> captured at 100 second intervals throughout the entire day. The Brainwash dataset includes 3 full days of webcam images taken on October 27, November 13, and November 24 in 2014. According the author's <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/End-to-End-People-Detection-in-Crowded-Scenes-Stewart-Andriluka/1bd1645a629f1b612960ab9bba276afd4cf7c666">research paper</a> introducing the dataset, the images were acquired with the help of Angelcam.com. <a class="footnote_shim" name="[^end_to_end]_1"> </a><a href="#[^end_to_end]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 2">2</a></p> <p>The Brainwash dataset is unique because it uses images from a publicly available webcam that records people inside a privately owned business without any consent. No ordinary cafe customer would ever suspect that their image would end up in dataset used for surveillance research and development, but that is exactly what happened to customers at Brainwash cafe in San Francisco.</p> <p>Although Brainwash appears to be a less popular dataset, it was notably used in 2016 and 2017 by researchers affiliated with the National University of Defense Technology in China for two <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Localized-region-context-and-object-feature-fusion-Li-Dou/b02d31c640b0a31fb18c4f170d841d8e21ffb66c">research</a> <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Replacement-Algorithm-of-Non-Maximum-Suppression-Zhao-Wang/591a4bfa6380c9fcd5f3ae690e3ac5c09b7bf37b">projects</a> on advancing the capabilities of object detection to more accurately isolate the target region in an image. <a class="footnote_shim" name="[^localized_region_context]_1"> </a><a href="#[^localized_region_context]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 3">3</a> <a class="footnote_shim" name="[^replacement_algorithm]_1"> </a><a href="#[^replacement_algorithm]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 4">4</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_Defense_Technology">National University of Defense Technology</a> is controlled by China's top military body, the Central Military Commission.</p> -<p>The dataset also appears in a 2017 <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7877809">research paper</a> from Peking University for the purpose of improving surveillance capabilities for "people detection in the crowded scenes".</p> +<p>The Brainwash dataset also appears in a 2018 research paper affiliated with Megvii (Face++) that used images from Brainwash Cafe "to validate the generalization ability of [their] CrowdHuman dataset for head detection."<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^crowdhuman]_1"> </a><a href="#[^crowdhuman]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 5">5</a>. Megvii is the parent company of Face++, who has provided surveillance technology to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html">monitor Uighur Muslims</a> in Xinjiang and may be <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/trump-weighs-blacklisting-two-chinese-surveillance-companies">blacklisted</a> in the United States.</p> </section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/brainwash/assets/brainwash_example.jpg' alt=' An sample image from the Brainwash dataset used for training face and head detection algorithms for surveillance. The dataset contains a total of 11,917 images and 81,973 annotated heads. Credit: megapixels.cc. License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication (PDDL)'><div class='caption'> An sample image from the Brainwash dataset used for training face and head detection algorithms for surveillance. The dataset contains a total of 11,917 images and 81,973 annotated heads. Credit: megapixels.cc. License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication (PDDL)</div></div></section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/brainwash/assets/brainwash_saliency_map.jpg' alt=' A visualization of the active regions for 81,973 head annotations in the Brainwash dataset training partition. Credit: megapixels.cc. License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication (PDDL)'><div class='caption'> A visualization of the active regions for 81,973 head annotations in the Brainwash dataset training partition. Credit: megapixels.cc. License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication (PDDL)</div></div></section><section> <h3>Who used Brainwash Dataset?</h3> @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ </li><li>2 <a name="[^end_to_end]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^end_to_end]_1">a</a></span>Stewart, Russel. Andriluka, Mykhaylo. "End-to-end people detection in crowded scenes". 2016. </li><li>3 <a name="[^localized_region_context]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^localized_region_context]_1">a</a></span>Li, Y. and Dou, Y. and Liu, X. and Li, T. Localized Region Context and Object Feature Fusion for People Head Detection. ICIP16 Proceedings. 2016. Pages 594-598. </li><li>4 <a name="[^replacement_algorithm]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^replacement_algorithm]_1">a</a></span>Zhao. X, Wang Y, Dou, Y. A Replacement Algorithm of Non-Maximum Suppression Base on Graph Clustering. +</li><li>5 <a name="[^crowdhuman]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^crowdhuman]_1">a</a></span>Shuai Shao, Zijian Zhao, Boxun Li, Tete Xiao, Gang Yu, Xiangyu Zhang, and Jian Sun. CrowdHuman: Benchmark for Detecting Human in a Crowd. 2018. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00123">http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00123</a> </li></ul></section></section> </div> |
