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A still frame from the Duke MTMC (Multi-Target-Multi-Camera) CCTV dataset captured on Duke University campus in 2014. The dataset has now been terminated by the author in response to this report.

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Update: In response to this report and an investigation by the Financial Times, Duke University has terminated the Duke MTMC dataset.

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Duke MTMC (Multi-Target, Multi-Camera) is a dataset of surveillance video footage taken on Duke University's campus in 2014 and is used for research and development of video tracking systems, person re-identification, and low-resolution facial recognition. The dataset contains over 14 hours of synchronized surveillance video from 8 cameras at 1080p and 60 FPS, with over 2 million frames of 2,000 students walking to and from classes. The 8 surveillance cameras deployed on campus were specifically setup to capture students "during periods between lectures, when pedestrian traffic is heavy". 1

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Duke MTMC (Multi-Target, Multi-Camera) is a dataset of surveillance video footage taken on Duke University's campus in 2014 and is used for research and development of video tracking systems, person re-identification, and low-resolution facial recognition.

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The dataset contains over 14 hours of synchronized surveillance video from 8 cameras at 1080p and 60 FPS, with over 2 million frames of 2,000 students walking to and from classes. The 8 surveillance cameras deployed on campus were specifically setup to capture students "during periods between lectures, when pedestrian traffic is heavy". 1

For this analysis of the Duke MTMC dataset over 100 publicly available research papers that used the dataset were analyzed to find out who's using the dataset and where it's being used. The results show that the Duke MTMC dataset has spread far beyond its origins and intentions in academic research projects at Duke University. Since its publication in 2016, more than twice as many research citations originated in China as in the United States. Among these citations were papers links to the Chinese military and several of the companies known to provide Chinese authorities with the oppressive surveillance technology used to monitor millions of Uighur Muslims.

In one 2018 paper jointly published by researchers from SenseNets and SenseTime (and funded by SenseTime Group Limited) entitled Attention-Aware Compositional Network for Person Re-identification, the Duke MTMC dataset was used for "extensive experiments" on improving person re-identification across multiple surveillance cameras with important applications in suspect tracking. Both SenseNets and SenseTime have been linked to the providing surveillance technology to monitor Uighur Muslims in China. 4 2 3

A collection of 1,600 out of the approximately 2,000 students and pedestrians in the Duke MTMC dataset. These students were also included in the Duke MTMC Re-ID dataset extension used for person re-identification, and eventually the QMUL SurvFace face recognition dataset. Open Data Commons Attribution License.
A collection of 1,600 out of the approximately 2,000 students and pedestrians in the Duke MTMC dataset. These students were also included in the Duke MTMC Re-ID dataset extension used for person re-identification, and eventually the QMUL SurvFace face recognition dataset. Open Data Commons Attribution License.

Despite repeated warnings by Human Rights Watch that the authoritarian surveillance used in China represents a humanitarian crisis, researchers at Duke University continued to provide open access to their dataset for anyone to use for any project. As the surveillance crisis in China grew, so did the number of citations with links to organizations complicit in the crisis. In 2018 alone there were over 90 research projects happening in China that publicly acknowledged using the Duke MTMC dataset. Amongst these were projects from CloudWalk, Hikvision, Megvii (Face++), SenseNets, SenseTime, Beihang University, China's National University of Defense Technology, and the PLA's Army Engineering University.

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Information Supply chain

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Information Supply Chain

- To help understand how Duke MTMC Dataset has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing Duke Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking Project was collected, verified, and geocoded to show the biometric trade routes of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal research projects at that location. + To help understand how Duke MTMC Dataset has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing Duke Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking Project was collected, verified, and geocoded to show the information supply chains of people appearing in the images. Click on the markers to reveal research projects at that location.

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