Face Detection Test Set Available

[Shumeet Baluja]

In response to our recently announced paper on face detection, we have received
several requests for our test images.  In order to facilitate accurate
comparisons, we have made our images available on-line.


*** We recommend that you use these images for testing purposes only. Training
systems based on these images decreases the value of this database as an
independent test set. ***



Data Set Specifics:

42 Compuserve GIF format gray-scale images.

169 Labeled Face Locations.  Our work concentrated on finding frontal views of
faces in scenes, so the list of faces includes mainly those faces looking
towards the camera; extreme side views are ignored.  These faces vary in size
from ~20 to several hundred pixels. 

Image lighting/noise/graininess/contrast also varies; images were taken from CCD
cameras, scanned photographs, scanned magazine & newspaper pictures, and
handrawn images.



To get the images:

  http://www.ius.cs.cmu.edu/IUS/dylan_usr0/har/faces/test/index.html


A demo of our system, and copies of our paper, can be found in:

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baluja
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~har



If you use this databse, please let us know.  Send any questions/comments to:

shumeet baluja (baluja at cs.cmu.edu)
henry rowley (har at cs.cmu.edu)