IARPA Janus Benchmark C (IJB-C)

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The IARPA Janus Benchmark C (IJB–C) is a dataset of web images used for face recognition research and development. The IJB–C dataset contains 3,531 people

Among the target list of 3,531 names are activists, artists, journalists, foreign politicians,

• Subjects 3531
• Templates: 140739
• Genuine Matches: 7819362
• Impostor Matches: 39584639

Why not include US Soliders instead of activists?

was creted by Nobilis, a United States Government contractor is used to develop software for the US intelligence agencies as part of the IARPA Janus program.

The IARPA Janus program is

these representations must address the challenges of Aging, Pose, Illumination, and Expression (A-PIE) by exploiting all available imagery.

• metadata annotations were created using crowd annotations
• created by Nobilis
• used mechanical turk
• made for intelligence analysts
• improve performance of face recognition tools
• by fusing the rich spatial, temporal, and contextual information available from the multiple views captured by today’s "media in the wild"

The name list includes

• 2 videos from CCC
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    • Katharina Nocun: Deine Rechte sind in diesen Freihandelsabkommen nicht verfügbar
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    • Jillian York: "Technology companies now hold an unprecedented ability to shape the world around us by limiting our ability to access certain content and by crafting proprietary algorithm that bring us our daily streams of content. Matthew Stender, Jillian C. York"
  • Maya Zankoul. She's an old friend, a Lebanese web designer who's put out a couple of books locally and has a Wikipedia page, probably created by a Lebanese Wikipedia editor die-hard. Not famous. How on earth?
  • Melissa Gira Grant (also a journalist)
  • Nadezhda Tolokinnikova (Pussy Riot)
  • Derrick Ashong (activist and journalist)
  • Michael Anti
  • Lina Ben Mhenni
  • Manal al-Sharif
  • Juan Carlos de Martin (not an activist but not really famous either!)
  • Anita Sarkeesian
  • Amal Clooney (lawyer)
  • Anil Dash (startup guy)
  • Bruno Latour (philosopher)
  • Dan Gillmor (tech journalist)
  • Eben Upton (founder of raspberry pi)
  • Evgeny Morozov
  • Gabriella Coleman
  • Maria Popova
  • Molly Crabapple
  • Paola Antonelli
  • Seymour Hersh
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates

The first 777 are non-alphabetical. From 777-3531 is alphabetical

Research notes

From original papers: https://noblis.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/icb2018.pdf

Collection for the dataset began by identifying CreativeCommons subject videos, which are often more scarce thanCreative Commons subject images. Search terms that re-sulted in large quantities of person-centric videos (e.g. “in-terview”) were generated and translated into numerous lan-guages including Arabic, Korean, Swahili, and Hindi to in-crease diversity of the subject pool. Certain YouTube userswho upload well-labeled, person-centric videos, such as the World Economic Forum and the International University Sports Federation were also identified. Titles of videos per-taining to these search terms and usernames were scrapedusing the YouTube Data API and translated into English us-ing the Yandex Translate API4. Pattern matching was per-formed to extract potential names of subjects from the trans-lated titles, and these names were searched using the Wiki-data API to verify the subject’s existence and status as a public figure, and to check for Wikimedia Commons im-agery. Age, gender, and geographic region were collectedusing the Wikipedia API.Using the candidate subject names, Creative Commonsimages were scraped from Google and Wikimedia Com-mons, and Creative Commons videos were scraped fromYouTube. After images and videos of the candidate subjectwere identified, AMT Workers were tasked with validat-ing the subject’s presence throughout the video. The AMTWorkers marked segments of the video in which the subjectwas present, and key frames

IARPA funds Italian researcher https://www.micc.unifi.it/projects/glaivejanus/

Who used IJB-C?

This bar chart presents a ranking of the top countries where dataset citations originated. Mouse over individual columns to see yearly totals. These charts show at most the top 10 countries.

Information Supply chain

To help understand how IJB-C has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing IARPA Janus Benchmark C 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.

Supplementary Information

Cite Our Work

If you find this analysis helpful, please cite our work:

@online{megapixels,
  author = {Harvey, Adam. LaPlace, Jules.},
  title = {MegaPixels: Origins, Ethics, and Privacy Implications of Publicly Available Face Recognition Image Datasets},
  year = 2019,
  url = {https://megapixels.cc/},
  urldate = {2019-04-18}
}