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• Alphabetically by first name:
  [A)[Alf)[Ang)[B)[Bin)[C)[Che)[Col)[D)[Daw)[Don)[E)[Eri)[F)[G)[Goe)[H) [I)[J)[Jav)[Jes)[Joh)[Jos)[K)[Kim)[L)[Lil)[M)[Mark)[Mel)[Mik)[N)[O)[P) [Per)[Q)[R)[Ric)[Rog)[S)[Sha)[Ste)[T)[Tim)[U)[V)[W)[X)[Y)[Z)
• Alphabetically by first name, only people with more than one image:
  [A][B][C][D][E][F][G][H][I][J][K][L][M][N][O][P][Q][R][S][T][U][V][W][X][Y][Z]
• Alphabetically by last name:
  [A][B][C][D][E][F][G][H][I][J][K][L][M][N][O][P][Q][R][S][T][U][V][W][X][Y][Z]
• By number of images per person:
  [1 A-E][1 F-J][1 K-O][1 P-T][1 U-Z][2][3][4][5][6-10][11+]
• Single page of all names (no thumbnails)

• All images as gzipped tar file (173MB, md5sum ac79dc88658530a91423ebbba2b07bf3)
     as zip file
• All images aligned with funneling (233MB, md5sum 1b42dfed7d15c9b2dd63d5e5840c86ad)
     as zip file
• Subset of images - people with name starting with A (14MB)
     as zip file
• Subset of images - George_W_Bush (individual person with most images) (6.9MB)
     as zip file
• All names (with number of images for given name) as text file
• README - information on file formats and directory structure

Training, Validation, and Testing:

View 1:

For development purposes, we recommend using the below training/testing split, which was generated randomly and independently of the splits for 10-fold cross validation, to avoid unfairly overfitting to the sets above during development. For instance, these sets may be viewed as a model selection set and a validation set. See the tech report below for more details.

Explore the sets: [training][test]
Download the sets: pairsDevTrain.txt, pairsDevTest.txt, peopleDevTrain.txt, peopleDevTest.txt

View 2:

As a benchmark for comparison, we suggest reporting performance as 10-fold cross validation using splits we have randomly generated.

Explore the sets: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Download the sets: pairs.txt, people.txt

For information on the file formats, please refer to the README above.
For details on how the sets were created, please refer to the tech report below.

Results:

Accuracy and Precision-Recall curves for various methods available on results page.

• 13233 images
• 5749 people
• 1680 people with two or more images

Reference:

Please cite as:
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.
[pdf]

Contact:

Questions and comments can be sent to:
Gary Huang - gbhuang@cs.umass.edu

Change History:

2008/02/04

Added funneled images and super-pixels images to person pages.
Made all funneled images available as single downloadable file.

2008/01/25

Added results page with numbers for method of Nowak and Jurie, CVPR 2007.

2007/11/21

Added revised version of technical report.

2007/11/19

Added technical report to page.

2007/11/15

Added mailing list and change history to page.