Computer Vision Science Research Projects
Dr Libor Spacek

Description of the Collection of Facial Images

You may freely download this data for your own exclusive research purposes. You should publish computer recognition results achieved on this data, with due acknowledgement. You may not publish/print/sell/distribute the images themselves.

I have provided my database in order to encourage comparative research. Biometric processing comparisons and summary results are the main purpose. I am not trying to be difficult by placing conditions on other uses. However, I do not hold signed release forms from all the individuals in this database. Therefore, strictly speaking, the rights to the display of these images rest with the individuals depicted in them. I hope this clarifies the legal position.

For your convenience of downloading, there are zipped versions of all the data in each directory. The images are stored in 24 bit RGB, JPEG format.

• Total number of individuals: 395
• Number of images per individual: 20
• Total number of images: 7900
• Gender:  contains images of male and female subjects
• Race:  contains images of people of various racial origins
• Age Range:  the images are mainly of first year undergraduate  students, so the majority of indivuals are between 18-20 years old but some older individuals are also present.
• Glasses: Yes
• Beards: Yes
• Image format: 24bit colour JPEG
• Camera used: S-VHS camcorder
• Lighting: artificial, mixture of tungsten and fluorescent overhead

Designed and maintained by Dr Libor Spacek. Updated Friday, 20-Jun-2008 12:17:59 BST
publications,  biography, email: spacl (@essex.ac.uk).
Some of my courses: Computer Vision,  Sensor Signal Processing,  Vision for Robotics,  Robot Programming.