CMU Face Images
Donated on 6/23/1999
This data consists of 640 black and white face images of people taken with varying pose (straight, left, right, up), expression (neutral, happy, sad, angry), eyes (wearing sunglasses or not), and size
Dataset Characteristics
Image
Subject Area
Other
Associated Tasks
Classification
Feature Type
Integer
# Instances
640
# Features
-
Dataset Information
Additional Information
Each image can be characterized by the pose, expression, eyes, and size. There are 32 images for each person capturing every combination of features. To view the images, you can use the program xv. The image data can be found in /faces. This directory contains 20 subdirectories, one for each person, named by userid. Each of these directories contains several different face images of the same person. You will be interested in the images with the following naming convention: <userid> <pose> <expression> <eyes> <scale>.pgm <userid> is the user id of the person in the image, and this field has 20 values: an2i, at33, boland, bpm, ch4f, cheyer, choon, danieln, glickman, karyadi, kawamura, kk49, megak, mitchell, night, phoebe, saavik, steffi, sz24, and tammo. <pose> is the head position of the person, and this field has 4 values: straight, left, right, up. <expression> is the facial expression of the person, and this field has 4 values: neutral, happy, sad, angry. <eyes> is the eye state of the person, and this field has 2 values: open, sunglasses. <scale> is the scale of the image, and this field has 3 values: 1, 2, and 4. 1 indicates a full-resolution image (128 columns by 120 rows); 2 indicates a half-resolution image (64 by 60); 4 indicates a quarter-resolution image (32 by 30). If you've been looking closely in the image directories, you may notice that some images have a .bad suffix rather than the .pgm suffix. As it turns out, 16 of the 640 images taken have glitches due to problems with the camera setup; these are the .bad images. Some people had more glitches than others, but everyone who got ``faced'' should have at least 28 good face images (out of the 32 variations possible, discounting scale). More information and C code for loading the images is available here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/faces.html.
Has Missing Values?
Yes
Dataset Files
File | Size |
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faces.tar.Z | 10.1 MB |
faces.tar.gz | 9.5 MB |
faces_4.tar.Z | 503.3 KB |
faces_4.tar.gz | 404.4 KB |
hw97.ps | 88.5 KB |
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pip install ucimlrepo
from ucimlrepo import fetch_ucirepo # fetch dataset cmu_face_images = fetch_ucirepo(id=124) # data (as pandas dataframes) X = cmu_face_images.data.features y = cmu_face_images.data.targets # metadata print(cmu_face_images.metadata) # variable information print(cmu_face_images.variables)
Mitchell, T. (1997). CMU Face Images [Dataset]. UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C5JC79.
Creators
Tom Mitchell
DOI
License
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
This allows for the sharing and adaptation of the datasets for any purpose, provided that the appropriate credit is given.