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Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation of their algorithms. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photos albums posted on Flickr, CCTV cameras on college campuses, livestreams at cafes, search engine queries for celebrities, or videos on YouTube.

+(PAGE UNDER DEVELOPMENT) -While these datasets include many public figures, politicans, athletes, and actors, they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, and pedestrians. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, but others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without anyone's awareness or consent. During the last year hundreds of these datasets have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data. +

Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation face recognition technology. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photo albums posted on social media sites, CCTV camera footage from college campuses, search engine queries for celebrities, cafe livestreams, or videos on YouTube.

-MegaPixels is art and research by Adam Harvey about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel the stories behind these datasets. During 2019 this site, coded by Jules LaPlace, will publish research reports, visualizations, downloadable statisticds, and interactive tools for searching the datasets. +While many of these datasets include public figures such as politicans, athletes, and actors; they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, pedestrians, and people's semi-private shared photo albums. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, yet others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without awareness or consent. At first glance it appears many of the datasets were created for seemingly harmless academic research studies, but when examined further it becomes clear that they're also used by defense contractors in foreign countries. -This project is produced in partnership with [Mozilla](https://mozilla.org) who has provided the funding to research the datasets, build the site, and develop tools to help you understand the role these datasets have played in creating biometric surveillance technologies. +During the last year, hundreds of these facial analysis datasets created "in the wild" have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that is helping to power the global facial recognition industry. +MegaPixels is art and research by Adam Harvey about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel their histories, futures, geographies, and contents. Throughout 2019 this site, coded by Jules LaPlace, will publish research reports, visualizations, downloadable statistics, and interactive tools for searching the datasets. -## Team +The MegaPixels website is produced in partnership with [Mozilla](https://mozilla.org) who provided the funding to research the datasets, build the site, and develop tools to help you understand the role these datasets have played in creating biometric surveillance technologies. -![sideimage:Adam Harvey](assets/adam-harvey.jpg) **Adam Harvey** is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG. +The MegaPixels site is based on an [earlier installation](https://ahprojects.com/megapixels-glassroom), also supported by Mozilla, at the [Tactical Tech Glassroom](https://theglassroom.org/) in London about the facial recognition datasets; and a commission from the Elevate arts festival curated by Berit Gilma about pedestrian recognition datasets. -![sideimage:Jules LaPlace](assets/jule s-laplace.jpg)**Jules LaPlace** is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians. + +### MegaPixels Team + +![sideimage:Adam Harvey](assets/adam-harvey-3d.jpg) **Adam Harvey** is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects ([CV Dazzle](https://ahprojects.com/cvdazzle), [Stealth Wear](https://ahprojects.com/stealth-wear), and [SkyLift](https://ahprojects.com/skylift)) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and is a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.
[ahprojects.com](https://ahprojects.com) + +![sideimage:Jules LaPlace](assets/jules-laplace-3d.jpg)**Jules LaPlace** is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians.
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Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. +(PAGE UNDER DEVELOPMENT) - Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio, cumque nihil impedit, quo minus id, quod maxime placeat, facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet, ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non-recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat +At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus, qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti, quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint, obcaecati cupiditate non-provident, similique sunt in culpa, qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. + +Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio, cumque nihil impedit, quo minus id, quod maxime placeat, facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet, ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non-recusandae. 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The cafe published a publicy available livestream from the cafe with a view of the cash register, performance stage, and seating area. diff --git a/site/content/pages/datasets/celeba/index.md b/site/content/pages/datasets/celeba/index.md index 19b0291d..a2669cf6 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/datasets/celeba/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/datasets/celeba/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ------------ -status: published +status: draft title: CelebA desc: CelebA is a dataset of people... subdesc: CelebA includes... @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ authors: Adam Harvey ## CelebA +(PAGE UNDER DEVELOPMENT) + At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus, qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti, quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint, obcaecati cupiditate non-provident, similique sunt in culpa, qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio, cumque nihil impedit, quo minus id, quod maxime placeat, facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet, ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non-recusandae. 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It is used to evaluate and improve the performance of facial recognition algorithms in academic, commercial, and government research. According to BiometricUpdate.com[^lfw_pingan], LFW is "the most widely used evaluation set in the field of facial recognition, LFW attracts a few dozen teams from around the globe including Google, Facebook, Microsoft Research Asia, Baidu, Tencent, SenseTime, Face++ and Chinese University of Hong Kong." The LFW dataset includes 13,233 images of 5,749 people that were collected between 2002-2004. LFW is a subset of *Names of Faces* and is part of the first facial recognition training dataset created entirely from images appearing on the Internet. 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    Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation of their algorithms. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photos albums posted on Flickr, CCTV cameras on college campuses, livestreams at cafes, search engine queries for celebrities, or videos on YouTube.

    While these datasets include many public figures, politicans, athletes, and actors, they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, and pedestrians. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, but others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without anyone's awareness or consent. During the last year hundreds of these datasets have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data.

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    MegaPixels is art and research by Adam Harvey about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel the stories behind these datasets. During 2019 this site, coded by Jules LaPlace, will publish research reports, visualizations, downloadable statisticds, and interactive tools for searching the datasets.

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    This project is produced in partnership with Mozilla who has provided the funding to research the datasets, build the site, and develop tools to help you understand the role these datasets have played in creating biometric surveillance technologies.

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    Adam Harvey is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.

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    Jules LaPlace is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians.

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    Ever since government agencies began developing face recognition in the early 1960's, datasets of face images have always been central to the development and evaluation face recognition technology. Today, these datasets no longer originate in labs, but instead from family photo albums posted on social media sites, CCTV camera footage from college campuses, search engine queries for celebrities, cafe livestreams, or videos on YouTube.

    While many of these datasets include public figures such as politicans, athletes, and actors; they also include many non-public figures including digital activists, students, pedestrians, and people's semi-private shared photo albums. Some images are used with creative commons licenses, yet others were taken in unconstrained scenarios without awareness or consent. At first glance it appears many of the datasets were created for seemingly harmless academic research studies, but when examined further it becomes clear that they're also used by defense contractors in foreign countries.

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    During the last year, hundreds of these facial analysis datasets created "in the wild" have been collected to understand how they contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that is helping to power the global facial recognition industry.

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    MegaPixels is art and research by Adam Harvey about publicly available facial recognition datasets that aims to unravel their histories, futures, geographies, and contents. Throughout 2019 this site, coded by Jules LaPlace, will publish research reports, visualizations, downloadable statistics, and interactive tools for searching the datasets.

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    The MegaPixels website is produced in partnership with Mozilla who provided the funding to research the datasets, build the site, and develop tools to help you understand the role these datasets have played in creating biometric surveillance technologies.

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    The MegaPixels site is based on an earlier installation, also supported by Mozilla, at the Tactical Tech Glassroom in London about the facial recognition datasets; and a commission from the Elevate arts festival curated by Berit Gilma about pedestrian recognition datasets.

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    MegaPixels Team

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    Adam Harvey

    Adam Harvey is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for countersurveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups), the recipient of 2 PrototypeFund awards, and is a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.
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    Jules LaPlace

    Jules LaPlace is an American creative technologist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision for human rights groups. Jules also builds creative software for artists and musicians.
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    Additional research by Berit Gilma.

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