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 and remote biometric analysis" or non-cooperative face recognition. 1
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). Based on an analysis of the papers that use or cite this dataset 2 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.
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.
Who used TownCentre?
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.
Biometric Trade Routes
To help understand how TownCentre has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing Oxford Town Centre 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.
- Academic
- Commercial
- Military / Government
Dataset Citations
The dataset citations used in the visualizations were collected from Semantic Scholar, a website which aggregates and indexes research papers. Each citation was geocoded using names of institutions found in the PDF front matter, or as listed on other resources. These papers have been manually verified to show that researchers downloaded and used the dataset to train or test machine learning algorithms.
Supplementary Information
Several researchers have posted their demo videos using the Oxford Town Centre dataset on YouTube:
- Multi target tracking on Oxford Dataset
- [Multi-pedestrian tracking (TownCentre dataset)]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO-3EM9dEd4
- Multiple object tracking with kalman tracker and sort
- Multi target tracking on Oxford dataset
- towncentre
- VTD - towncenter.avi
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