Updates and Responses

Since publishing MegaPixels, several of the datasets mentioned have disappeared and one surveillance workshop was cancelled. Below is a list of notable responses and reactions.

June 2019

• June 2: The Duke MTMC dataset website (http://vision.cs.duke.edu/DukeMTMC/) has been taken down
• June 2: A person tracking workshop at CVPR has been cancelled due to the Duke MTMC dataset takedown https://reid-mct.github.io/2019/
• June 1: The Brainwash face/head dataset has been taken down by its author https://exhibits.stanford.edu/data/catalog/sx925dc9385. "This data was removed from access at the request of the depositor."
• June 1: the UCCS dataset page page with a response from the author to clarify that he did not provide any face data to government agencies. Funding was for technology transfer.

May 2019

• May 31: Semantic Scholar appears to be censoring citations used in this project. Two of the citations linking the Brainwash dataset to research from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China have disabled. NUDT citation 1, NUDT citation 2, and the original paper show that the NUDT citation has been censored (see references)
• May 28: The Microsoft Celeb (MS Celeb) face dataset website is now 404 and all the download links were deactivated. It appears that Microsoft Reserach has shuttered access to their MS Celeb dataset. Yet it remains available, as of June 2, on Imperial College London's website and on https://msropendata.com/datasets/98fdfc70-85ee-5288-a69f-d859bbe9c737