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PIE Database This project is no longer active. Head: Simon Baker Contact: Simon Baker Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: VASC Associated labs/groups: Human Identification at a Distance, People Image Analysis Consortium, Face Group, and Virtualized RealityTM

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Project Description

Between October and December 2000 we collected a database of 41,368 images of 68 people. By extending the CMU 3D Room we were able to image each person under 13 different poses, 43 different illumination conditions, and with 4 different expressions. We call this database the CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) database.

The following images and movies illustrate the variation in the database.
Pose:

Illumination:

	A movie illustrating the illumination variation with the ambient lights off.
	A movie illustrating the illumination variation with the ambient lights on.

Expression:

A movie illustrating the talking expression variation.

Please contact Ralph Gross (rgross@cs.cmu.edu) if you are interested in getting a copy of this database.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Simon Baker	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
	Ralph Gross	PhD Student, ISRI	rgross@cs.cmu.edu
	Terence Sim	PhD Student, ECE

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression Database
  T. Sim, S. Baker, and M. Bsat
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 12, December, 2003, pp. 1615 - 1618. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [369 KB] copyrighted

• Multi-Subregion Based Probabilistic Approach Toward Pose-Invariant Face Recognition
  T. Kanade and A. Yamada
  Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), July, 2003, pp. 954 - 959. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [352 KB] copyrighted

• The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database
  T. Sim, S. Baker, and M. Bsat
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [685 KB], ps.gz [2661 KB] copyrighted

• The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database of Human Faces
  T. Sim, S. Baker, and M. Bsat
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [26189 KB], ps.gz [30102 KB] copyrighted