{"url":"/dataset/dronesurf","name":"DroneSURF","full_name":"DroneSURF: Benchmark Dataset for Drone-based Face Recognition","description_markdown":"Drone Surveillance of Faces, is a large-scale drone dataset intended to facilitate research for face recognition using drones.\r\n\r\nData has been captured at two outdoor locations: (i) at the ground level, where subjects are asked to walk in a park-like environment, and (ii) at the terrace of a building. For each location and surveillance scenario, data is captured twice: (i) during the morning and (ii) during the evening, before sunset.\r\n\r\nFor each combination of location, surveillance use case, and time of capture, there exist 25 videos featuring 58 subjects. Each subject belongs to the age bracket of (18, 40) years, and each video contains subjects appearing in groups of 2-3. For a particular setting combination, one group appears in only one video. Since there exist eight combinations of location, surveillance scenario, and time of capture, each group of subjects occur in eight videos, thus resulting in a total of 200 videos. The subjects and pairings remain consistent across different settings.\r\n\r\nThe directory structure represents the combination of location, use case and time of capture.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8756593","introduced_date":"2019-06-25","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[{"name":"Images","url":"/datasets/modality/images"},{"name":"Videos","url":"/datasets/modality/videos"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Face Recognition","url":"/task/face-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/face-recognition"},{"name":"Face Verification","url":"/task/face-verification","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/face-verification"},{"name":"Face Identification","url":"/task/face-identification","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/face-identification"},{"name":"Robust Face Recognition","url":"/task/robust-face-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/robust-face-recognition"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["DroneSURF"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":6,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/face-identification-on-dronesurf","task":"Face Identification","dataset_variant":"DroneSURF","rows":6,"metrics":["Rank1"],"first_row_in_archive_order":{"model":"CoNAN (Adaface)","paper":"/paper/conan-conditional-neural-aggregation-network","metrics":{"Rank1":"83.33"},"code_links":[]},"note":"rows are the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing here re-ranks them"}],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[{"paper":"/paper/proxyfusion-face-feature-aggregation-through","title":"ProxyFusion: Face Feature Aggregation Through Sparse Experts","date":"2025-09-24","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":2,"syntology":null},{"paper":"/paper/conan-conditional-neural-aggregation-network","title":"CoNAN: Conditional Neural Aggregation Network For Unconstrained Face Feature Fusion","date":"2023-07-16","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":0,"syntology":null},{"paper":"/paper/histogram-of-oriented-gradients-meet-deep","title":"Histogram of Oriented Gradients Meet Deep Learning: A Novel Multi-task Deep Network for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation","date":"2022-04-02","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":1,"syntology":null},{"paper":"/paper/multicolumn-networks-for-face-recognition","title":"Multicolumn Networks for Face Recognition","date":"2018-07-24","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":1,"syntology":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","samples_harvested":4,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":4,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"claim":"Per-sample execution on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim."}},{"paper":"/paper/neural-aggregation-network-for-video-face","title":"Neural Aggregation Network for Video Face Recognition","date":"2016-03-17","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":0,"syntology":null},{"paper":"/paper/network-in-network","title":"Network In Network","date":"2013-12-16","rows_on_this_dataset":1,"code_links":17,"syntology":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","samples_harvested":7,"samples_ran":1,"samples_unverified":6,"pointer_only_for_licence":1,"claim":"Per-sample execution on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim."}}],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":2,"samples_harvested":11,"samples_ran":1,"samples_unverified":10,"pointer_only_for_licence":1,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":1,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}