From 7cc03d5914ce3fb634516d27973ccb69ee63fe8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: adamhrv Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 14:09:19 +0200 Subject: updating --- site/content/pages/about/faq.md | 26 --------------------- site/content/pages/about/index.md | 21 ++++++++--------- site/content/pages/about/legal.md | 4 +--- site/content/pages/about/press.md | 6 +---- .../assets/oxford_town_centre_cctv.jpg | Bin 0 -> 91833 bytes .../assets/surveillance_camera.jpg | Bin 229342 -> 0 bytes .../pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/index.md | 19 ++++++++++----- .../pages/research/00_introduction/index.md | 8 +++++++ site/content/pages/test/gallery.md | 6 +++++ 9 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 site/content/pages/about/faq.md create mode 100755 site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/oxford_town_centre_cctv.jpg delete mode 100644 site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/surveillance_camera.jpg (limited to 'site/content/pages') diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/faq.md b/site/content/pages/about/faq.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8b780262..00000000 --- a/site/content/pages/about/faq.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ ------------- - -status: published -title: MegaPixels Press and News -desc: MegaPixels Press and News -slug: faqs -cssclass: about -published: 2018-12-04 -updated: 2018-12-04 -authors: Adam Harvey - ------------- - -# FAQs - -
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- -[ page under development ] diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/index.md b/site/content/pages/about/index.md index 5fc147c9..880ca356 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/index.md @@ -16,10 +16,8 @@ authors: Adam Harvey
@@ -42,9 +40,9 @@ The MegaPixels site is made possible with support from diff --git a/site/content/pages/about/press.md b/site/content/pages/about/press.md index a0780d64..9f3874ce 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/about/press.md +++ b/site/content/pages/about/press.md @@ -16,13 +16,9 @@ authors: Adam Harvey
-(TEMPORARY PAGE) - - Aug 22, 2018: "Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software" by James Vincent \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/oxford_town_centre_cctv.jpg b/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/oxford_town_centre_cctv.jpg new file mode 100755 index 00000000..e5bbfaae Binary files /dev/null and b/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/oxford_town_centre_cctv.jpg differ diff --git a/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/surveillance_camera.jpg b/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/surveillance_camera.jpg deleted file mode 100644 index 72bdcbf9..00000000 Binary files a/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/assets/surveillance_camera.jpg and /dev/null differ diff --git a/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/index.md b/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/index.md index b3bce9af..d2d37230 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/datasets/oxford_town_centre/index.md @@ -21,21 +21,28 @@ authors: Adam Harvey [ page under development ] -The Oxford Town Centre dataset is a video of pedestrians in a busy downtown area in Oxford used for creating surveillance algorithms with "potential applications in activity recognition and remote biometric analysis" or non-cooperative face recognition. [^ben_benfold_orig] +The Oxford Town Centre dataset is a video of pedestrians in a busy downtown area in Oxford used for creating surveillance algorithms with potential applications in activity recognition, remote biometric analysis, and non-cooperative face recognition. [^ben_benfold_orig] -Based on observations of the dataset video and Google Street images, the source of the footage has been geolocated to a public CCTV camera at the intersection of Cornmarket and Market St. Oxford, England ([map](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7528347,-1.2581078,3a,90y,324.38h,101.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3uTXi12qVnI35DnDJbDofg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)). Based on an analysis of the papers that use or cite this dataset [^guiding_surveillance] the inferred year of capture was definitely 2009 and the season was perhaps February or March based on the the window advertisements and cool-weather clothing. - -Halfway through the video a peculiar and somewhat rude man enters the video and stands directly over top a water drain for over a minute. His unusual demeanor and apparently scripted behavior suggests a possible relationship to the CCTV operators. +REVISE Although Oxford Town Centre dataset first appears as a pedestrian dataset, it was created to improve the stabilization of pedstrian detections in order to extract a more accurate head region that would lead to improvements in face recognition. -![caption: Footage from this public CCTV camera was used to create the Oxford Town Centre dataset. Image source Google Sreet View](assets/surveillance_camera.jpg) - {% include 'dashboard.html' %} {% include 'supplementary_header.html' %} +### Location + +The street location of the camera used for the Oxford Town Centre dataset can be easily confirmed using only two visual clues in video: the GAP store and the main road [source](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7528162,-1.2581152,3a,50.3y,310.59h,87.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s3FsGN-PqYC-VhQGjWgmBdQ!2e0!5s20120601T000000!7i13312!8i6656). The camera angle and field of view indicate that the camera was elevated and placed at the corner. The edge of the building is visible and there is a small white nylon strap and pigeon deterrent spikes visible on the upper perimeter of the building. Combined with stability of camera and pigeon appearances in front of the camera at 1:24 and 3:29, these visual cues indicate that the camera was mounted outside on the corner of the building just above the deterrence spikes. + +![caption: Footage from this public CCTV camera was used to create the Oxford Town Centre dataset. Image sources: Google Sreet View and Oxford Town Centre dataset](assets/oxford_town_centre_cctv.jpg) + +Halfway through the video a peculiar and somewhat rude man enters the video and stands directly over top a water drain for over a minute. His unusual demeanor and apparently scripted behavior suggests a possible relationship to the CCTV operators. + +### Demo Videos Using Oxford Town Centre Dataset + Several researchers have posted their demo videos using the Oxford Town Centre dataset on YouTube: + - [Multi target tracking on Oxford Dataset](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO-3EM9dEd4) - [Multi-pedestrian tracking (TownCentre dataset)]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO-3EM9dEd4 - [Multiple object tracking with kalman tracker and sort](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKXk6uB8348) diff --git a/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md b/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md index bcb3d57c..91b87b18 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md +++ b/site/content/pages/research/00_introduction/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,15 @@ authors: Megapixels + Posted: Dec. 15 + Author: Adam Harvey +Facial recognition is a scam. +During the last 20 years commericial, academic, and governmental agencies have promoted the false dream of a future with face recognition. This essay debunks the popular myth that such a thing ever existed. + +There is no such thing as *face recognition*. For the last 20 years, government agencies, commercial organizations, and academic institutions have played the public as a fool, selling a roadmap of the future that simply does not exist. Facial recognition, as it is currently defined, promoted, and sold to the public, government, and commercial sector is a scam. + +Committed to developing robust solutions with superhuman accuracy, the industry has repeatedly undermined itself by never actually developing anything close to "face recognition". + +There is only biased feature vector clustering and probabilistic thresholding. ### Motivation diff --git a/site/content/pages/test/gallery.md b/site/content/pages/test/gallery.md index 6992d142..0c411add 100644 --- a/site/content/pages/test/gallery.md +++ b/site/content/pages/test/gallery.md @@ -17,3 +17,9 @@ authors: Megapixels ![Modal image 1](assets/man.jpg) ![Modal image 2](assets/man.jpg) ![Modal image 3](assets/man.jpg) + +## Test table + +| Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | +|---|---|---| +| Content1 | Content2 | Content3 | \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2