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Abstract

Between October 2000 and December 2000 we collected a database of over 40,000 facial images of 68 people. Using the CMU 3D Room we imaged each person across 13 different poses, under 43 different illumination conditions, and with 4 different expressions. We call this database the CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) database. In this paper we describe the imaging hardware, the collection procedure, the organization of the database, several potential uses of the database, and how to obtain the database.

Notes

Sponsor: Office of Naval Research

Grant ID: N00014-00-1-0915

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Virtualized Reality^TM, People Image Analysis Consortium, Human Identification at a Distance, Face Group, Component Analysis

Associated Project(s): PIE Database, Face Databases, Face Recognition

Text Reference

Terence Sim, Simon Baker, and Maan Bsat, "The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May, 2002.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Sim_2002_3907,
   author = "Terence Sim, Simon Baker, and Maan Bsat",
   title = "The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition",
   month = "May",
   year = "2002",
}

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