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status: published
title: Oxford Town Centre
desc: Oxford Town Centre is a dataset of surveillance camera footage from Cornmarket St Oxford, England
subdesc: The Oxford Town Centre dataset includes
slug: oxford_town_centre
cssclass: dataset
image: assets/background.jpg
year: 2015
published: 2019-2-23
updated: 2019-2-23
authors: Adam Harvey

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## Oxford Town Centre

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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]

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.

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### 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)
- [Multi target tracking on Oxford dataset](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_RdXH7pSY)
- [towncentre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErLtfUAJA8U)
- [VTD - towncenter.avi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwMOmqvhnoc)


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### Footnotes

[^ben_benfold_orig]: Benfold, Ben and Reid, Ian. "Stable Multi-Target Tracking in Real-Time Surveillance Video". CVPR 2011. Pages 3457-3464.
[^guiding_surveillance]: "Guiding Visual Surveillance by Tracking Human Attention". 2009.