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SCface – surveillance cameras face database

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In this paper we describe a database of static images of human faces. Images were taken in uncontrolled indoor environment using five video surveillance cameras of various qualities. Database contains 4,160 static images (in visible and infrared spectrum) of 130 subjects. Images from different quality cameras should mimic real-world conditions and enable robust face recognition algorithms testing, emphasizing different law enforcement and surveillance use case scenarios. In addition to database description, this paper also elaborates on possible uses of the database and proposes a testing protocol. A baseline Principal Component Analysis (PCA) face recognition algorithm was tested following the proposed protocol. Other researchers can use these test results as a control algorithm performance score when testing their own algorithms on this dataset. Database is available to research community through the procedure described at www.scface.org.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Bozidar Klimpak for his technical support during database acquistion and indexing, Kresimir Marusic and Tehnozavod Marusic Ltd. for providing surveillance system equipment, Boris Krzic for providing professional photo equipment and his help with mug shots capturing, Darko Poljak for developing and providing JAVA software used for semiautomatic determination of eyes, nose and mouth coordinates, and to all participants in this project. Portions of the research in this paper use the FERET database of facial images collected under the FERET program. The authors would like to thank the FERET Technical Agent, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for providing the FERET database. The work described in this paper was conducted under the research project “Intelligent Image Features Extraction in Knowledge Discovery Systems” (036-0982560-1643), supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

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For creating SCface database six surveillance cameras were used, a digital photographer’s camera, digital video surveillance recorder, personal computer (PC) and other accessories used for connecting and installing cameras, recorder and a PC.

1.1 Surveillance cameras

  • cam1, cam6–Bosch LTC0495/51

  • cam2–Shany WTC-8342

  • cam3–J&S JCC-915D

  • cam4–Alarmcom VFD400- 12B

  • cam5, cam7, cam8–Shany MTC-L1438

Digital video surveillance recorder was Digital Sprite 2 from Dedicated Micros. The Digital Sprite 2 has 16 input video channels, two monitor outputs and LAN connector. It has 600 GB internal hard disk for storage of video streams from cameras and CD writer for writing data directly on CDs. It was set up for capturing 2 pictures per second from each camera, what gives a total of 12 pictures per second. Each picture size was 40 kB.

1.2 Mug shot camera

Photographer’s camera was Canon EOS 10D model with 22.7 × 15.1 mm CMOS sensor, with 6.3 mega pixels, equipped with Sigma 18–50 mm F3.5–5.6 DC lenses and Sigma EF 500 DG Super flash.

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Grgic, M., Delac, K. & Grgic, S. SCface – surveillance cameras face database. Multimed Tools Appl 51, 863–879 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-009-0417-2

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