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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.

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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.

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," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, May, 2002.

@inproceedings{Sim_2002_3907,
   author = "Terence Sim and 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"
}