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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.

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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. We hope to increase the number of subjects over the next few months and to image as many people as possible for a second time. In this technical report we describe the extensions we made to the CMU 3D Room, the collection procedure, and the organization of the database.

Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Grant ID: N00014-00-1-0915

Associated center: VASC
Associated labs/groups: Human Identification at a Distance, People Image Analysis Consortium, Face Group, Human Sensing, and Virtualized Reality^TM
Associated projects: PIE Database, Face Databases, and Face Recognition

T. Sim, S. Baker, and M. Bsat, The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database of Human Faces, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2001.

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   title = "The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database of Human Faces",
   institution = "Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University",
   month = "January",
   year = "2001",
   number = "CMU-RI-TR-01-02",
   address = "Pittsburgh, PA"
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