DJRHails/voxceleb2-names

VoxCeleb2 speaker names

Maps every one of the 6,114 VoxCeleb2 speakers (dev and test) to its VGGFace2 identity and a name, recording where each name came from.

Coverage

set	speakers	named	vggface2	adjudication
dev	5,994	5,994	5,975	19
test	120	120	120	0
all	6,114	6,114	6,095	19

vggface2 names come from VGGFace2 identity_meta.csv; adjudication names replace a VGGFace2 label that YouTube-title evidence showed to be wrong for the speaker's audio (see "Corrected labels"). Every speaker has a name; the build script fails, listing each gap and its reason, if any is missing.

Columns

voxceleb2_names.csv, one row per speaker, sorted by voxceleb2_id:

column	meaning
voxceleb2_id	VoxCeleb2 speaker id (id00012)
set	dev or test (official VoxCeleb2 split)
gender	m / f, from vox2_meta.csv
vggface2_id	VGGFace2 class id (n000012)
name	best display name (see name_source)
name_source	vggface2 or adjudication
name_key	comparison key for name: accents folded, casefolded, punctuation dropped
vggface2_name	the VGGFace2 label, normalised (rules below)
vggface2_name_raw	the VGGFace2 label exactly as in identity_meta.csv
title_check	outcome of the YouTube-title cross-check (table below)
title_confidence	high / medium / low grade of the cross-check (dev only)
title_evidence	the cross-check's evidence text (dev only)
same_name_ids	other voxceleb2_ids sharing this name_key, ;-separated

Join method

1. vox2_meta.csv lists every VoxCeleb2 id with its VGGFace2 id, gender and set. The file starts with a UTF-8 BOM and pads every cell with a trailing space; both are stripped.
2. Each VGGFace2 id is looked up in VGGFace2 identity_meta.csv, whose names are double-quoted after a leading space (n000001, "14th_Dalai_Lama"). VoxCeleb2 identities are a subset of VGGFace2's, so every speaker resolves. (The data/vggface2_meta.csv that some speaker-recognition repos read is this same file renamed.)
3. Names are normalised for display: underscores become spaces, whitespace collapses, ’ becomes ', the apostrophe VGGFace2 strips from O'/D'/L'/d' surnames is restored (Conan_OBrien becomes Conan O'Brien, Barbara_dUrso becomes Barbara d'Urso), and the text is NFC. Non-ASCII letters are kept. The raw label is kept in vggface2_name_raw.
4. Dev speakers are cross-checked against the previous revision of this dataset, which graded the names in each speaker's YouTube video titles (via the YouTube oEmbed API) against the VGGFace2 label and adjudicated conflicts with a third video. Test speakers were never title-checked.

title_check	speakers
agree	4,691
vggface2_only	1,166
adjudicated_confirmed	97
adjudicated_corrected	19
disputed	21
not_checked	120

• agree: titles and VGGFace2 name the same person.
• vggface2_only: titles gave no usable name; the VGGFace2 label stands.
• adjudicated_confirmed: a conflict was adjudicated in favour of the label.
• adjudicated_corrected: adjudication named someone else; name uses it.
• disputed: titles contradict the label and adjudication could not name the speaker; name keeps the VGGFace2 label, unconfirmed.
• not_checked: test speaker, no title evidence.

Flags

Corrected labels (19)

The title adjudication found the VGGFace2 label wrong for the audio (relative, misspelling, nickname, character name, corrupt label); name carries the adjudicated name, vggface2_name the label. The last column lists other VGGFace2 identities already carrying the corrected name.

voxceleb2_id	vggface2_id	VGGFace2 label	name	confidence	also a VGGFace2 id
id00251	n000251	Alex_Aniston	Jennifer Aniston	medium
id00296	n000296	Alexei_Kudrin	Dmitry Medvedev	low
id01021	n001021	Bhairvi_Goswami	Bhairavi Goswami	high
id01358	n001358	Carla_Bonner	Harley Bonner	low
id02099	n002098	Dedee_Pfeiffer	Michelle Pfeiffer	low
id02149	n002148	Derrell_Dixon	Norman Reedus	medium
id03042	n003041	Gerard_Tubier	Gerard Butler	high
id03755	n003754	James_Dimon	Jamie Dimon	high
id03816	n003815	Jane_Goulding	Ellie Goulding	medium
id04441	n004440	Julianne_Michelle	Julianne Moore	medium
id04578	n004577	Karim_Wade	Abdoulaye Wade	low
id04830	n004829	King_Khan	Shah Rukh Khan	low
id05478	n005477	Manjari_Phadnis	Manjari Fadnis	high
id05575	n005574	Margaret_Blanchard	Ginnifer Goodwin	low
id05916	n005915	Megan_Kelly	Megyn Kelly	high
id06578	n006577	Nina_Watson	Nina Dobrev	high
id07359	n007358	Rick_Rose	Rick Ross	high
id07522	n007521	Romina_Mondello	Olga Kurylenko	medium
id09083	n009083	Yendi_Phillips	Yendi Phillipps	high

Disputed labels (21)

The title evidence contradicts the VGGFace2 label and adjudication could not name the speaker. name keeps the VGGFace2 label (the dataset's own identity label); treat it as unconfirmed.

voxceleb2_id	vggface2_id	name	evidence (truncated)
id00035	n000035	Abu Qatada	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Abu Qatada' appears in no title; only title names interviewee Abu Firas al-Suri (single, low); 2 of 3 videos dead (404/account termin
id00436	n000436	An Jeong-hwan	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg An Jeong-hwan unconfirmed; titles name Cha Jung-hwan and Jung Seung-hwan
id00730	n000730	Anu Choudhury	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Anu Choudhury' unconfirmed; single title names Barsha Priyadarshini (fellow Odia actress); t3 dead; contradictory
id00920	n000920	Beata Kempa	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg Beata Kempa unconfirmed; single title names Anne Roumanoff
id01109	n001109	Bob Marley	Adjudicated conflict: only title is a 2016 Julian Marley interview (Bob Marley died 1981, cannot be in it); vgg 'Bob Marley' unconfirmable; other two videos dea
id02555	n002554	Engin Altan Düzyatan	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg Engin Altan Duzyatan vs title Engin Akyurek; both fit id range
id02765	n002764	Felipe Gonzales	Adjudicated conflict: no title names vgg 'Felipe Gonzales'; titles are a Young Lords doc segment and a Franco's Settlers trailer with no common named person; t3
id02950	n002949	Gaby Köster	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Gaby Köster' unconfirmed; single title is Sabrina Fox's own-channel Kölner Treff appearance; other videos dead; contradictory
id03287	n003286	H. D. Kumaraswamy	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'H. D. Kumaraswamy' unconfirmed; only title is a Baahubali/Rajamouli's-father red-carpet clip (different sphere entirely); other video
id03939	n003909	Jean Ziegler	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Jean Ziegler' unconfirmed; single title is Zemmour on RTS Infrarouge (Ziegler plausible as fellow Swiss-debate guest but unnamed); ot
id04325	n004324	Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida' never named; titles are Artur Mas at Argentona and Fórum Europa con Diamandouros - CiU context fits Dura
id05479	n005478	Manny Ramirez	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg Manny Ramirez unconfirmed; single title Hanley Ramirez postgame
id05708	n005707	Marlene Favela	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Marlene Favela' never named; titles name co-star Mario Cimarro and a Telemundo Acceso Total segment; telenovela context compatible bu
id06258	n006257	Mrisho Ngasa	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg Mrisho Ngasa unconfirmed; titles name Nadir Haroub and Mrisho Mpoto
id06439	n006438	Neethu	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg Neethu vs title Neetu Chandra; distinct actresses, ambiguous
id06498	n006497	Niclas Wahlgren	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Niclas Wahlgren' never named; titles name sister Pernilla Wahlgren and ex-wife Laila Bagge Wahlgren; family context compatible but no
id07100	n007099	Quentin L. Cook	Adjudicated conflict: LDS church videos naming L. Whitney Clayton and Elder Christofferson; vgg 'Quentin L. Cook' never named; contradictory within same organis
id08350	n008349	Sylvia Pasquel	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Sylvia Pasquel' never named; only named title is her mother Silvia Pinal; t3 is a nameless Luis Miguel piece; mother/daughter ambigui
id08864	n008863	Victor Crivoi	Adjudicated conflict: three Romanian tennis players across titles: Marius Copil (x2) and Victor Hanescu (t3); vgg 'Victor Crivoi' never named; contradictory thr
id09004	n009004	Will Graham	adjudicated (follow-up pass): vgg 'Will Graham' is a Hannibal character collision; single Hugh Dancy title
id09226	n009226	Ángel Acebes	Adjudicated conflict: vgg 'Ángel Acebes' never named; titles are an Otegi-rally AP clip and a French 20h news episode (2 Apr 2004) - era/sphere compatible with

Shared names (0 rows)

Speakers whose name_key matches another speaker's: two VoxCeleb2 ids, one name.

None: every speaker's name_key is unique.

Sources and licences

source	pinned file	licence
VoxCeleb2 metadata (Chung, Nagrani, Zisserman 2018)	vox2/vox2_meta.csv	CC BY-SA 4.0 (the Oxford VoxCeleb2 page licenses its metadata so; the Hub mirror is tagged cc-by-4.0)
VGGFace2 identity metadata (Cao et al. 2018)	meta/identity_meta.csv	CC BY-SA 4.0 (Oxford's release terms, archived 2019-12-16; Oxford has since withdrawn the download and the Hub mirror is tagged cc-by-nc-4.0)
YouTube-title cross-check (previous revision of this dataset)	voxceleb2_names_full.json	CC BY 4.0

Both name sources are ShareAlike, so this table is released under CC BY-SA 4.0. Names identify public figures; use them for research on the existing VoxCeleb2 data, not to identify people in other recordings.

Reproduce

python3 scripts/data/build_voxceleb2_names.py

from voxpath; every input is pinned to a Hub commit, so a rerun reproduces this file byte for byte.