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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 approximately 2,200 identities and is used for research and development of face recognition systems
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 remote biometric analysis and non-cooperative face recognition.[^ben_benfold_orig] The dataset was originally created to build algorithms that improve the stability of pedestrian detectors to provide more accurate head location estimates, leading to more accurate face recognition.
Oxford Town Centre dataset is unique in that it uses footage from a public CCTV camera that is designated for public safety. Since its publication in 2009, the Oxford Town Centre CCTV footage dataset, and all 2,200 people in the video, have been redistributed around the world for the purpose of surveillance research and development. There are over 80 verified research projects that have used the Oxford Town Centre dataset. The usage even extends to commercial organizations including Amazon, Disney, and OSRAM.
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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. The field of view indicates the camera uses a wide angle lens. Combined with the camera's stability 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.
### 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)
TODO
- make heatmap viz
- add license info
### 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.
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