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diff --git a/site/public/datasets/lfw/index.html b/site/public/datasets/lfw/index.html index 2d91b065..60a6bf0e 100644 --- a/site/public/datasets/lfw/index.html +++ b/site/public/datasets/lfw/index.html @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ <div class="content content-"> <section class='intro_section' style='background-image: url(https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/lfw/assets/background.jpg)'><div class='inner'><div class='hero_desc'><span class='bgpad'><span class="dataset-name">Labeled Faces in The Wild (LFW)</span> is the first facial recognition dataset created entirely from online photos</span></div><div class='hero_subdesc'><span class='bgpad'>It includes 13,456 images of 4,432 people's images copied from the Internet during 2002-2004 and is the most frequently used dataset in the world for benchmarking face recognition algorithms. -</span></div></div></section><section><div class='right-sidebar'><div class='meta'> +</span></div></div></section><section><div class='left-sidebar'><div class='meta'> <div class='gray'>Published</div> <div>2007</div> </div><div class='meta'> diff --git a/site/public/datasets/uccs/index.html b/site/public/datasets/uccs/index.html index 4a0dfb5e..1d76de3a 100644 --- a/site/public/datasets/uccs/index.html +++ b/site/public/datasets/uccs/index.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <title>MegaPixels</title> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="author" content="Adam Harvey" /> - <meta name="description" content="UnConstrained College Students is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos of students at University of Colorado in Colorado Springs" /> + <meta name="description" content="UnConstrained College Students is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos of students on University of Colorado in Colorado Springs campus" /> <meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" /> <link rel='stylesheet' href='/assets/css/fonts.css' /> @@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ </header> <div class="content content-dataset"> - <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 at University of Colorado in Colorado Springs</span></div><div class='hero_subdesc'><span class='bgpad'>The UnConstrained College Students dataset includes 16,149 images and 1,732 identities of subjects on University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus and is used for making face recognition and face detection algorithms -</span></div></div></section><section><div class='right-sidebar'><div class='meta'> + <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><section><div class='right-sidebar'><div class='meta'> <div class='gray'>Published</div> <div>2016</div> </div><div class='meta'> @@ -48,15 +49,14 @@ </div><div class='meta'> <div class='gray'>Website</div> <div><a href='http://vast.uccs.edu/Opensetface/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener'>uccs.edu</a></div> - </div></div><h2>UnConstrained College Students</h2> -<p>[ page under development ]</p> -<p>UnConstrained College Students (UCCS) is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos captured at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. According to the authors of two papers associated with the dataset, subjects 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 2">2</a>. To create the dataset, the researchers used a Canon 7D digital camera fitted with a Sigma 800mm telephoto lens and photographed students 150–200m away through their office window. Photos were taken during the morning and afternoon while students were walking to and from classes. The primary uses of this dataset are to train, validate, and build recognition and face detection algorithms for realistic surveillance scenarios.</p> -<p>What makes the UCCS dataset unique is that it includes the highest resolution images of any publicly available face recognition dataset discovered so far (18MP), that it was captured on a campus without consent or awareness using a long-range telephoto lens, and that it was funded by United States defense and intelligence agencies.</p> -<p>Combined funding sources for the creation of the initial and final release of the dataset include ODNI (Office of Director of National Intelligence), IARPA (Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity), ONR MURI (Office of Naval Research and The Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative), Army SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research), SOCOM SBIR (Special Operations Command and Small Business Innovation Research), and the National Science Foundation. <a class="footnote_shim" name="[^funding_sb]_1"> </a><a href="#[^funding_sb]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 1">1</a> <a class="footnote_shim" name="[^funding_uccs]_2"> </a><a href="#[^funding_uccs]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 2">2</a></p> -<p>In 2017 the UCCS face dataset was used for a defense and intelligence agency funded <a href="http://www.face-recognition-challenge.com/">face recognition challenge</a> at the International Joint Biometrics Conference in Denver, CO. And in 2018 the dataset was used for the <a href="https://erodner.github.io/ial2018eccv/">2nd Unconstrained Face Detection and Open Set Recognition Challenge</a> at the European Computer Vision Conference (ECCV) in Munich, Germany. Additional research projects that have used the UCCS dataset are included below in the list of verified citations.</p> -<p>UCCS is part of the IARAP Janus team <a href="https://vast.uccs.edu/project/iarpa-janus/">https://vast.uccs.edu/project/iarpa-janus/</a></p> -<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02337">https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02337</a></p> -</section><section> + </div></div><p>UnConstrained College Students (UCCS) is a dataset of long-range surveillance photos captured at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. According to the authors of two papers 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 2">2</a>. In this investigation, we examine the funding sources, contents of the dataset, photo EXIF data, and publicy available research project citations.</p> +<p>According to the author's of the the UnConstrained College Students dataset it is primarliy used for research and development of "face detection and recognition research towards surveillance applications that are becoming more popular and more required nowadays, and where no automatic recognition algorithm has proven to be useful yet." Applications of this technology include usage by defense and intelligence agencies, who were also the primary funding sources of the UCCS dataset.</p> +<p>In the two papers associated with the release of the UCCS dataset (<a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Unconstrained-Face-Detection-and-Open-Set-Face-G%C3%BCnther-Hu/d4f1eb008eb80595bcfdac368e23ae9754e1e745">Unconstrained Face Detection and Open-Set Face Recognition Challenge</a> and <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Large-scale-unconstrained-open-set-face-database-Sapkota-Boult/07fcbae86f7a3ad3ea1cf95178459ee9eaf77cb1">Large Scale Unconstrained Open Set Face Database</a>), the researchers disclosed their funding sources as ODNI (United States Office of Director of National Intelligence), IARPA (Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity), ONR MURI (Office of Naval Research and The Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative), Army SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research), SOCOM SBIR (Special Operations Command and Small Business Innovation Research), and the National Science Foundation. Further, UCCS's VAST site explicity <a href="https://vast.uccs.edu/project/iarpa-janus/">states</a> they are part of the <a href="https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/janus">IARPA Janus</a>, a face recognition project developed to serve the needs of national intelligence interests.</p> +</section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/uccs_map_aerial.jpg' alt=' Location on campus where students were unknowingly photographed with a telephoto lens to be used for defense and intelligence agency funded research on face recognition. Image: Google Maps'><div class='caption'> Location on campus where students were unknowingly photographed with a telephoto lens to be used for defense and intelligence agency funded research on face recognition. Image: Google Maps</div></div></section><section><p>The UCCS dataset includes the highest resolution images of any publicly available face recognition dataset discovered so far (18MP) and was, as of 2018, the "largest surveillance FR benchmark in the public domain."<a class="footnote_shim" name="[^surv_face_qmul]_1"> </a><a href="#[^surv_face_qmul]" class="footnote" title="Footnote 3">3</a> To create the dataset, the researchers used a Canon 7D digital camera fitted with a Sigma 800mm telephoto lens and photographed students from a distance of 150–200m through their office window. Photos were taken during the morning and afternoon while students were walking to and from classes. According to an analysis of the EXIF data embedded in the photos, nearly half of the 16,149 photos were taken on Tuesdays. The most popular time was during lunch break. All of the photos were taken during the spring semester in 2012 and 2013 but the dataset was not publicy released until 2016.</p> +<p>In 2017 the UCCS face dataset was used for a defense and intelligence agency funded <a href="http://www.face-recognition-challenge.com/">face recognition challenge</a> at the International Joint Biometrics Conference in Denver, CO. And in 2018 the dataset was again used for the <a href="https://erodner.github.io/ial2018eccv/">2nd Unconstrained Face Detection and Open Set Recognition Challenge</a> at the European Computer Vision Conference (ECCV) in Munich, Germany. Additional research projects that have used the UCCS dataset are included below in the list of verified citations.</p> +<p>As of April 15, 2019, the UCCS dataset is no longer available for public download. During the three years it was publicly available (2016-2019) the UCCS dataset apepared in at least 5 publicly available research papers including verified usage from University of Notre Dame (US), Beihang University (China), Beckman Institute (US), Queen Mary University of London (UK), Carnegie Mellon University (US),Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE), and Vision Semantics Ltd (UK) who <a href="http://visionsemantics.com/partners.html">lists</a> the UK Ministry of Defence and Metropolitan Police as partners.</p> +<p>To show the types of face images used in the UCCS student dataset while protecting their individual privacy, a generative adversarial network was used to interpolate between identities in the dataset. The image below shows a generative adversarial network trained on the UCCS face bounding box areas from 16,000 images and over 90,000 face regions.</p> +</section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/uccs_pgan_01.jpg' alt=' GAN generated approximations of students in the UCCS dataset. © megapixels.cc 2018'><div class='caption'> GAN generated approximations of students in the UCCS dataset. © megapixels.cc 2018</div></div></section><section> <h3>Who used UCCS?</h3> <p> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ </table> </div></div></section><section><h3>Location</h3> <p>The location of the camera and subjects can confirmed using several visual cues in the dataset images: the unique pattern of the sidewalk that is only used on the UCCS Pedestrian Spine near the West Lawn, the two UCCS sign poles with matching graphics still visible in Google Street View, the no parking sign and directionality of its arrow, the back of street sign next to it, the slight bend in the sidewalk, the presence of cars passing in the background of the image, and the far wall of the parking garage all match images in the dataset. The <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Large-scale-unconstrained-open-set-face-database-Sapkota-Boult/07fcbae86f7a3ad3ea1cf95178459ee9eaf77cb1">original papers</a> also provides another clue: a <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Large-scale-unconstrained-open-set-face-database-Sapkota-Boult/07fcbae86f7a3ad3ea1cf95178459ee9eaf77cb1/figure/1">picture of the camera</a> inside the office that was used to create the dataset. The window view in this image provides another match for the brick pattern on the north facade of the Kraember Family Library and the green metal fence along the sidewalk. View the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/University+of+Colorado+Colorado+Springs/@38.8934297,-104.7992445,27a,35y,258.51h,75.06t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x87134fa088fe399d:0x92cadf3962c058c4!8m2!3d38.8968312!4d-104.8049528">location on Google Maps</a></p> -</section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/uccs_map.jpg' alt=' Location on campus where students were unknowingly photographed with a telephoto lens to be used for defense and intelligence agency funded research on face recognition. Image: Google Maps'><div class='caption'> Location on campus where students were unknowingly photographed with a telephoto lens to be used for defense and intelligence agency funded research on face recognition. Image: Google Maps</div></div></section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/uccs_map_3d.jpg' alt=' 3D view showing the angle of view of the surveillance camera used for UCCS dataset. Image: Google Maps'><div class='caption'> 3D view showing the angle of view of the surveillance camera used for UCCS dataset. Image: Google Maps</div></div></section><section><h3>Funding</h3> +</section><section class='images'><div class='image'><img src='https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/megapixels/v1/datasets/uccs/assets/uccs_map_3d.jpg' alt=' 3D view showing the angle of view of the surveillance camera used for UCCS dataset. Image: Google Maps'><div class='caption'> 3D view showing the angle of view of the surveillance camera used for UCCS dataset. Image: Google Maps</div></div></section><section><h3>Funding</h3> <p>The UnConstrained College Students dataset is associated with two main research papers: "Large Scale Unconstrained Open Set Face Database" and "Unconstrained Face Detection and Open-Set Face Recognition Challenge". Collectively, these papers and the creation of the dataset have received funding from the following organizations:</p> <ul> <li>ONR (Office of Naval Research) MURI (The Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) grant N00014-08-1-0638</li> @@ -250,8 +250,9 @@ }</pre> </p> -</section><section><h3>References</h3><section><ul class="footnotes"><li><a name="[^funding_sb]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^funding_sb]_1">a</a></span><p>Sapkota, Archana and Boult, Terrance. "Large Scale Unconstrained Open Set Face Database." 2013.</p> -</li><li><a name="[^funding_uccs]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^funding_uccs]_1">a</a><a href="#[^funding_uccs]_2">b</a></span><p>Günther, M. et. al. "Unconstrained Face Detection and Open-Set Face Recognition Challenge," 2018. Arxiv 1708.02337v3.</p> +</section><section><h3>References</h3><section><ul class="footnotes"><li><a name="[^funding_sb]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"></span><p>Sapkota, Archana and Boult, Terrance. "Large Scale Unconstrained Open Set Face Database." 2013.</p> +</li><li><a name="[^funding_uccs]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^funding_uccs]_1">a</a></span><p>Günther, M. et. al. "Unconstrained Face Detection and Open-Set Face Recognition Challenge," 2018. Arxiv 1708.02337v3.</p> +</li><li><a name="[^surv_face_qmul]" class="footnote_shim"></a><span class="backlinks"><a href="#[^surv_face_qmul]_1">a</a></span><p>"Surveillance Face Recognition Challenge". <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Surveillance-Face-Recognition-Challenge-Cheng-Zhu/2306b2a8fba28539306052764a77a0d0f5d1236a">SemanticScholar</a></p> </li></ul></section></section> </div> |