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Welcome to Labeled Faces in the Wild, a database of face photographs
designed for studying the problem of unconstrained face recognition.
The database contains more than 13,000 images of faces collected from
the web. Each face has been labeled with the name of the person
pictured. 1680 of the people pictured have two or more distinct photos
in the database. The only constraint on these faces is that they were
detected by the Viola-Jones face detector. More details can be found in
the technical report below.
last updated: 2007/11/21 1:30 PM ESTchange log
- Mailing list:
- If you wish to receive announcements regarding any changes made to the LFW database, please send email to majordomo@cs.umass.edu with the message body: "subscribe lfw" on a single line.
- 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)
Download the database:
- 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:
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- 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 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.
