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From: adamhrv
MegaPixels is art and research by Adam Harvey about facial recognition datasets that unravels their histories, futures, geographies, and meanings. Throughout 2019 this site this site will publish research reports, visualizations, raw data, and interactive tools to explore how publicly available facial recognition datasets contribute to a global supply chain of biometric data that powers the global facial recognition industry.
- -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 powering the global facial recognition industry. - -The MegaPixels website is produced in partnership with [Mozilla](https://mozilla.org). +The MegaPixels site is made possible with support from Mozillais 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 grants, and is a researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.
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is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for counter-surveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups) and is a currently researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.
+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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is an American technologist and artist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision and data analysis software for human rights groups. Jules also builds experimental software for artists and musicians.
+is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for counter-surveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups) and is a currently researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.
@@ -42,29 +42,37 @@ The MegaPixels site is made possible with support from Mozillais Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (CV Dazzle, Stealth Wear, and SkyLift) explore the potential for counter-surveillance as artwork. He is the founder of VFRAME (visual forensics software for human rights groups) and is a currently researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.
@@ -50,29 +50,29 @@MegaPixels.cc is an independent research project about publicly available face recognition datasets. This website is based, in part, on earlier installations and research project about facial recognition datasets in 2016-2018, in particular the MegaFace dataset. Since then it has evolved into a large-scale survey and analysis of publicly available face and person analysis dataset usage, geographies, and ethics.
-An academic report and presentation on the findings is forthcoming. This site is published to make the research more accessible to a wider audience and to include visualizations and interactive features not possible in PDF publications. Continued research on MegaPixles is supported by a 1 year Researcher-in-Residence grant from Karlsruhe HfG.
+MegaPixels.cc is an independent research project about publicly available face recognition datasets. This website is based, in part, on earlier installations and research projects about facial recognition datasets in 2016-2018, which focused particularly on the MegaFace dataset. Since then it has evolved into a large-scale survey of publicly-available face and person analysis datasets, covering their usage, geographies, and ethics.
+An academic report and presentation on the findings is forthcoming. This site is published to make the research more accessible to a wider audience and to include visualizations and interactive features not possible in PDF publications. Continued research on MegaPixels is supported by a 1 year Researcher-in-Residence grant from Karlsruhe HfG.
When possible, and once thoroughly verified, data generated for MegaPixels will be made available for download on github.com/adamhrv/megapixels
-Please direct questions, comments, or feedback to mastodon.social/@adamhrv
+Please direct questions, comments, or feedback to mastodon.social/@adamhrv
- To help understand how {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_display }} has been used around the world for commercial, military and academic research; publicly available research citations {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_display }} are collected, verified, and geocoded to show the biometric trade routes of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal reserach projects at that location. + To help understand how {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_display }} has been used around the world for commercial, military and academic research; publicly available research citing {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_full} is collected, verified, and geocoded to show the biometric trade routes of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal reserach projects at that location.
-- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 2d8b7dd6ea6ccb0293c8839898cf7a1246dc0eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jules Laplace- To help understand how {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_display }} has been used around the world for commercial, military and academic research; publicly available research citing {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_full} is collected, verified, and geocoded to show the biometric trade routes of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal reserach projects at that location. + To help understand how {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_display }} has been used around the world for commercial, military and academic research; publicly available research citing {{ metadata.meta.dataset.name_full }} is collected, verified, and geocoded to show the biometric trade routes of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal reserach projects at that location.
diff --git a/site/public/datasets/index.html b/site/public/datasets/index.html index 03b38f8a..1d2630e1 100644 --- a/site/public/datasets/index.html +++ b/site/public/datasets/index.html @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@Explore publicly available facial recognition datasets. More datasets will be added throughout 2019.
As the resolution +formatted as rectangular databases of 16 bit RGB-tuples or 8 bit grayscale values
+To consider how visual privacy applies to real world surveillance situations, the first
+A single 8-bit grayscale pixel with 256 values is enough to represent the entire alphabet a-Z0-9 with room to spare.
A 2x2 pixels contains
+Using no more than a 42 pixel (6x7 image) face image researchers [cite] were able to correctly distinguish between a group of 50 people. Yet
+The likely outcome of face recognition research is that more data is needed to improve. Indeed, resolution is the determining factor for all biometric systems, both as training data to increase
+Pixels, typically considered the buiding blocks of images and vidoes, can also be plotted as a graph of sensor values corresponding to the intensity of RGB-calibrated sensors.
+Wi-Fi and cameras presents elevated risks for transmitting videos and image documentation from conflict zones, high-risk situations, or even sharing on social media. How can new developments in computer vision also be used in reverse, as a counter-forensic tool, to minimize an individual's privacy risk?
+As the global Internet becomes increasingly effecient at turning the Internet into a giant dataset for machine learning, forensics, and data analysing, it would be prudent to also consider tools for decreasing the resolution. The Visual Defense module is just that. What are new ways to minimize the adverse effects of surveillance by dulling the blade. For example, a researcher paper showed that by decreasing a face size to 12x16 it was possible to do 98% accuracy with 50 people. This is clearly an example of
+This research module, tentatively called Visual Defense Tools, aims to explore the
+What all 3 examples illustrate is that face recognition is anything but absolute. In a 2017 talk, Jason Matheny the former directory of IARPA, admitted the face recognition is so brittle it can be subverted by using a magic marker and drawing "a few dots on your forehead". In fact face recognition is a misleading term. Face recognition is search engine for faces that can only ever show you the mos likely match. This presents real a real threat to privacy and lends
+Globally, iPhone users unwittingly agree to 1/1,000,000 probably +relying on FaceID and TouchID to protect their information agree to a
NIST 906932. Performance Assessment of Face Recognition Using Super-Resolution. Shuowen Hu, Robert Maschal, S. Susan Young, Tsai Hong Hong, Jonathon P. Phillips↩
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