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Face Databases
This project is no longer active.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 lab/group: Face Group

Over the years, we have collected a number of database of human faces at CMU.

See the sub-projects below for more details.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Simon Baker - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
• [Home] Jeffrey Cohn - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Ralph Gross - PhD Student, ISRI <rgross@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Henry Rowley - PhD Student, CS
• Henry Schneiderman - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <hws@ux1.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Terence Sim - PhD Student, ECE
• [Home] Ying-Li Tian - Postdoctoral Fellow

• Cohn-Kanade AU-Coded Facial Expression Database - An AU-coded database of over 2000 video sequences of over 200 subjects displaying various facial expressions.
• Face Detection Databases - A collection of databases for training and testing face detectors.
• PIE Database - A database of 41,368 images of 68 people with Pose, Illumination, and Expression variation.

• Face Databases
  R. Gross
  Handbook of Face Recognition, S.Li, A.Jain, ed., Springer, New York, February, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [7138 KB] copyrighted

• 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

• 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

• Recognizing Facial Actions by Combining Geometric Features and Regional Appearance Patterns
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [797 KB], ps.gz [2291 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

• 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

• Comprehensive Database for Facial Expression Analysis
  T. Kanade, J. Cohn, and Y. Tian
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), March, 2000, pp. 46 - 53. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [108 KB] copyrighted

• Dual-state Parametric Eye Tracking
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), March, 2000, pp. 110 - 115. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [332 KB], ps.gz [1334 KB] copyrighted

• Recognizing Lower Face Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis
  Y. Tian, T. Kanade, and J. Cohn
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'00), March, 2000, pp. 484 - 490. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [501 KB], ps.gz [2248 KB] copyrighted