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Face Detection Databases
Head: Henry Schneiderman
Contact: Henry Schneiderman (hws@ux1.sp.cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Face Group

This page last updated - January 1999.

We provide two datasets for the testing and training of face detectors:

The Combined MIT / CMU Test Set with Ground Truth for Frontal Face Detection.

The CMU Test Set II with Ground Truth for Frontal and Non-Frontal Face Detection.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• Henry Schneiderman - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <hws@ux1.sp.cs.cmu.edu>

• Feature-Centric Evaluation for Efficient Cascaded Object Detection
  H. Schneiderman
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE, June, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [469 KB] copyrighted

• Learning a Restricted Bayesian Network for Object Detection
  H. Schneiderman
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, June, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [567 KB] copyrighted

• Object Detection Using the Statistics of Parts
  H. Schneiderman and T. Kanade
  International Journal of Computer Vision, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3828 KB] copyrighted

• A Statistical Model for 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars
  H. Schneiderman and T. Kanade
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [474 KB], ps.gz [1662 KB] copyrighted

• A Statistical Approach to 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars
  H. Schneiderman
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1947 KB], ps.gz [5938 KB] copyrighted

• Probabilistic Modeling of Local Appearance and Spatial Relationships for Object Recognition
  H. Schneiderman and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '98), July, 1998, pp. 45-51. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [255 KB], ps.gz [787 KB] copyrighted

• Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection
  H. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1478 KB], ps.gz [6370 KB] copyrighted

• Neural Network-Based Face Detection
  H. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 1, January, 1998, pp. 23-38. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1411 KB], ps.gz [4621 KB] copyrighted

• Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection
  H. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-CS-97-201, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1574 KB], ps.gz [6372 KB] copyrighted

• Neural Network-Based Face Detection
  H. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition '96, June, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [452 KB], ps.gz [1535 KB] copyrighted