INDIAN FACE DATABASE
This database contains human face images captured in February, 2002
in the campus of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
This database contains images of 40 distinct subjects with eleven different poses for each
individual. When available,
a few additional images are also included for some individuals. All the images have
a bright homogeneous background and the subjects are in an upright,
frontal position.
For each individual, we have included the following pose for the face :
looking front, looking left, looking right, looking up, looking up towards left,
looking up towards right, looking down. In addition to the variation in pose, images with four
emotions - neutral, smile, laughter, sad/disgust - are also included for every individual.
As an example, images corresponding to one individual are shown below.

The files are in JPEG format. The size of each image is 640x480 pixels, with
256 grey levels per pixel. The images are organized in two main directories -
males and females. In each of these directories, there are sub-directories with names
as numbers, where each index corresponding to an individual. In each of these
directories, there are eleven different images of that subject, which have names
of the form n.jpg, where n is the image number for that subject.
Indian Face database is available here.
Please read the following before downloading.
- This database is not available for commercial purposes. This is made available to help various people in their research.
- Please cite the use of this database as:
Vidit Jain, Amitabha Mukherjee. The Indian Face Database.
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~vidit/IndianFaceDatabase/
, 2002.
- Please notify us if you intend to use this database.
List of the current users of this database.
Many people are using this database for research projects in a variety of disciplines - spanning
from biometrics to social sciences. I thank the following people for notifying me.
Please let me know if you want your name to be added to/removed from this list.
- K. Cameron, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- L. Shamir, National Institue of Aging, NIH, Baltimore, USA
- R. Sahgal, OGI School of Science and Engg., Oregon, USA
- K. Dhou, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
- N. Hudson, De Montfort University, Leicester UK
- T. H. Yang, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
- G. P. S. Wijaya, Kumamoto University, Japan
- A. Tomita, Osaka University, Japan
- S. Bentin, Hebrew University, Israel
- D. Ozkan, Bilkent University, Turkey
- Y. Chen, Jinan University, China
- A. Sura, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Lee L K, Pusan National University, Korea
- B. Dongaonkar, Allahabad University, India
- F. S. Canales, Universidad de Costa Rica
- M. Hajiarbabi, Isfahan University of Technology
- V. Gomathi, NEC Kovilpatti, India
- A. Datar, RGS Technical University, India
- S. Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- M. I. A. Attari, Univerity of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan
- B. Dharini, ??, ??
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contact us.