All frontal views of: neutral expression, smile, anger, scream, left light on, right light on, all sides lights on, wearing sun glasses, wearing sun glassses and left light on, wearing sun glasses and right light on, wearing scarf, wearing scarf and left light on, wearing scarf and right light on; second sessions repeated same conditions.
Citation reference:
A.M. Martinez and R. Benavente. The AR Face Database. CVC Technical Report #24, June 1998
Available:
Yes
Name:
Richard's MIT database
Color Images:
Yes
Image Size:
480 x 640
Number of unique people:
154; 82 Male, 74 Female
Number of pictures per person:
6
Different Conditions:
2 frontal, profile, and 3/4 view - also some additional pictures of students wearing makeup
Franc Solina, Peter Peer, Borut Batagelj, Samo Juvan, Jure Kovac, "Color-based face detection in the "15 seconds of fame" art installation", In: Mirage 2003, Conference on Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration for Model-based Imaging, Rendering, image Analysis and Graphical special Effects, March 10-11 2003, INRIA Rocquencourt, France, Wilfried Philips, Rocquencourt, INRIA, 2003, pp. 38-47.
Varies, but 1,680 individuals with more than 1 image
Different Conditions:
Un-posed photos, but mainly frontal views
Citation reference:
Gary B. Huang, Manu Ramesh, Tamara Berg, and Erik Learned-Miller. Labeled Faces in the Wild: A Database for Studying Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Technical Report 07-49, October, 2007.
Georghiades, A.S. and Belhumeur, P.N. and Kriegman, D.J. From Few to Many: Illumination Cone Models for Face Recognition under Variable Lighting and Pose. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intelligence 23(6):643-660 (2001).
P. N. Bellhumer, J. Hespanha, and D. Kriegman. Eigenfaces vs. fisherfaces: Recognition using class specific linear projection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Special Issue on Face Recognition, 17(7):711--720, 1997.
A lot (40GB total) - we have a subset of one picture per individual
Different Conditions:
13 different poses, 43 different illumination conditions, and with 4 different expressions.
Citation reference:
The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression Database T. Sim, S. Baker, and M. Bsat IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 12, December, 2003
Available :
Subset (one picture of each individual); to get the whole database (40GB) send a hard drive to [email protected]
Various angles from left profile to right profile.
Citation reference:
TCharacterizing Virtual Eigensignatures for General Purpose Face Recognition. Daniel B Graham and Nigel M Allinson. Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications, NATO ASI Series F, Computer and Systems Sciences, Vol. 163. H. Wechsler, P. J. Phillips, V. Bruce, F. Fogelman-Soulie and T. S. Huang (eds), pp 446-456, 1998.
Ferdinando Samaria, Andy Harter. Parameterisation of a Stochastic Model for Human Face Identification. Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Sarasota FL, December 1994
Coding Facial Expressions with Gabor Wavelets Michael J. Lyons, Shigeru Akamatsu, Miyuki Kamachi & Jiro Gyoba Proceedings, Third IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, April 14-16 1998, Nara Japan, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 200-205.
mainly frontal views, a bunch random different photos of different people
Citation reference:
O. Jesorsky, K. Kirchberg, R. Frischholz.Robust Face Detection Using the Hausdorff Distance. In J. Bigun and F. Smeraldi, editors, Audio and Video based Person Authentication - AVBPA 2001, pages 90-95. Springer, 2001.
All frontal images: 16 different camera calibration and illuminations
Citation reference:
E. Marszalec, B. Martinkauppi, M. Soriano, M. Pietik鋓nen (2000), 'A physics-based face database for color research', Journal of Electronic Imaging Vol. 9 No. 1 pp. 32-38.
Depends on database purchased - 4 in frontal database; 4 of both left/right profile in profile database
Different Conditions:
frontal, profile, VRML modles, speech, and more, see website
Citation reference:
K Messer, J Matas, J Kittler, J Luettin, and G maitre. Xm2vtsdb: The extended m2vts database. In Second International Conference of Audio and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, March 1999
Available :
No: costs a fair amount to purchase - Frontal Image Set = $153, Side Profile Image Set = $229.5
Other useful links
Computer Vision Test Images - a page with links to other sites with more images Irfan View - a great image viewer that has useful conversion and renaming utilities