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status: published
title: About MegaPixels
desc: About MegaPixels
slug: about
cssclass: about
published: 2018-12-04
updated: 2018-12-04
authors: Adam Harvey
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# About MegaPixels
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<li><a class="current" href="/about/">About</a></li>
<li><a href="/about/news/">News</a></li>
<li><a href="/about/attribution/">Attribution</a></li>
<li><a href="/about/legal/">Legal / Privacy</a></li>
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MegaPixels is an independent art and research project by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace that investigates the ethics, origins, and individual privacy implications of face recognition image datasets and their role in the expansion of biometric surveillance technologies.
MegaPixels is made possible with support from <a href="http://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>
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<h3>Adam Harvey</h3>
<p>is Berlin-based American artist and researcher. His previous projects (<a href="https://cvdazzle.com">CV Dazzle</a>, <a href="https://ahprojects.com/stealth-wear">Stealth Wear</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/adamhrv/skylift">SkyLift</a>) explore the potential for counter-surveillance as artwork. He is the founder of <a href="https://vframe.io">VFRAME</a> (visual forensics software for human rights groups) and is a currently researcher in residence at Karlsruhe HfG.</p>
<p><a href="https://ahprojects.com">ahprojects.com</a></p>
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<h3>Jules LaPlace</h3>
<p>is an American technologist and artist also based in Berlin. He was previously the CTO of a digital agency in NYC and now also works at VFRAME, developing computer vision and data analysis software for human rights groups. Jules also builds experimental software for artists and musicians.
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<p><a href="https://asdf.us/">asdf.us</a></p>
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MegaPixels is an art and research project first launched in 2017 for an [installation](https://ahprojects.com/megapixels-glassroom/) at Tactical Technology Collective's [GlassRoom](https://tacticaltech.org/pages/glass-room-london-press/) about face recognition datasets. In 2018 MegaPixels was extended to cover pedestrian analysis datasets for a [commission by Elevate Arts festival](https://esc.mur.at/de/node/2370) in Austria. Since then MegaPixels has evolved into a large-scale interrogation of hundreds of publicly-available face and person analysis datasets, the first of which launched on this site in April 2019.
MegaPixels aims to provide a critical perspective on machine learning image datasets, one that might otherwise escape academia and industry funded artificial intelligence think tanks that are often supported by the same technology companies who created many of the datasets presented on this site.
MegaPixels is an independent project, designed as a public resource for educators, students, journalists, and researchers. Each dataset presented on this site undergoes a thorough review of its images, intent, and funding sources. Though the goals are similar to publishing an academic paper, MegaPixels is a website-first research project, with an academic publication to follow.
A dataset of verified geocoded citations and datasets statistics will be published in Fall 2019 along with a research paper as part of a research fellowship for [Karlsruhe HfG](http://kim.hfg-karlsruhe.de/).
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##### Team
- Adam Harvey: Concept, research and analysis, design, computer vision
- Jules LaPlace: Information and systems architecture, data management, web applications
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##### Contributing Researchers
- Berit Gilma
- Beth (aka Ms. Celeb)
- Mathana Stender
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##### Code and Libraries
- [Semantic Scholar](https://semanticscholar.org) for citation aggregation
- Leaflet.js for maps
- C3.js for charts
- ThreeJS for 3D visualizations
- PDFMiner.Six and Pandas for research paper analysis
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##### Attribution
If you use MegaPixels or any data derived from it for your work, please cite our original work as follows:
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@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}
}
</pre>
##### Contact
Please direct questions, comments, or feedback to [mastodon.social/@adamhrv](https://mastodon.social/@adamhrv) or contact via [https://ahprojects.com/about](https://ahprojects.com/about)
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