Review for NeurIPS paper: Self-paced Contrastive Learning with Hybrid Memory for Domain Adaptive Object Re-ID

Three of the four reviewers originally recommended marginal accept or accept (7, 6, 6) as they felt the paper provided a good empirical contribution to the field of adaptive re-identification and its results were strong. R9 was more negative and had concerns around experiments. One reviewer pointed out that the DukeMTMC extensively used in the paper has been taken down 12 months ago and its use should be discontinued. Because of the ethical concerns around this, the paper underwent additional review by the ethics panel, which recommended that the dataset should NOT be used in an accepted NeurIPS paper. Some excerpts from the ethics reviewers are below: -- "... the dataset collection involved non-consensual video surveillance of students on Duke University campus. It is unlikely that all students even knew they were being recorded, and their relative lack of power with respect to the institution surveilling them also raises concerns about the ability to meaningfully object to the surveillance."