QMUL UnderGround Re-IDentification Dataset

GRID is a dataset of 256 pedestrian image pairs captured from the London underground CCTV system and used for research and development of person re-identification surveillance algorithm. The images were captured from 8 cameras in a "busy underground station" in London. An additional 775 images are included to act as distractors. Notably, the CCTV video footage was made available to the researchers by the UK Ministry of Defence.

"We would like to thank the UK MOD who have made the video footage available to the Queen Mary University of London." 4

The dataset website states that it "is intended for research purposes only and as such cannot be used commercially." However, publicly available available research papers show the GRID dataset was eventually used in at least 2 projects affiliated with commercial organizations: Microsoft Research Asia and by UBTECH Robotics, a Shenzhen based household robotics company.

The disparity between the dataset's origin in the London Underground and eventual application in research affiliated with Microsoft Research Asia and a household robotics company in China illustrate the impossibility of knowing how and where biometric data will be used.

Information Supply Chain

To help understand how GRID has been used around the world by commercial, military, and academic organizations; existing publicly available research citing QMUL UnderGround Re-IDentification Dataset was collected, verified, and geocoded to show how AI training data has proliferated around the world. Click on the markers to reveal research projects at that location.

Citing This Work

If you reference or use any data from the Exposing.ai project, cite our original research as follows:

@online{Exposing.ai,
  author = {Harvey, Adam. LaPlace, Jules.},
  title = {Exposing.ai},
  year = 2021,
  url = {https://exposing.ai},
  urldate = {2021-01-01}
}

If you reference or use any data from GRID cite the author's work:

@article{Liu2014OntheflyFI,
    author = "Liu, C. and Gong, S. and Loy, Chen Change",
    title = "On-the-fly feature importance mining for person re-identification",
    journal = "Pattern Recognit.",
    year = "2014",
    volume = "47",
    pages = "1602-1615"
}

@Book{gong2014person,
    author = "Gong, Shaogang",
    title = "Person re-identification",
    publisher = "Springer",
    year = "2014",
    address = "London",
    isbn = "978-1-4471-6296-4"
}

@inproceedings{Liu2014EvaluatingFI,
    author = "Liu, C. and Gong, S. and Loy, Chen Change and Lin, X.",
    title = "Evaluating Feature Importance for Re-identification",
    booktitle = "Person Re-Identification",
    year = "2014"
}

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