A video database of moving faces and people

• Published in: IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 812 - 816
• Main Authors: O'Toole, A.J., Harms, J., Snow, S.L., Hurst, D.R., Pappas, M.R., Ayyad, J.H., Abdi, H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos, CA IEEE 01.05.2005; IEEE Computer Society; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adult; Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Clips; Cluster Analysis; Computer graphics; Computer science; control theory; systems; Database Management Systems; Databases, Factual; digital video; Exact sciences and technology; Face - anatomy & histology; Face - physiology; Face recognition; face tracking; Facial; Female; Head; Humans; Image databases; Image Enhancement - methods; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image recognition; Index Terms- Face database; Information Storage and Retrieval - methods; Male; Mathematical models; Models, Biological; Movement; Pattern Recognition, Automated - methods; Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry; Photography - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Reproduction; Sensitivity and Specificity; Shot; Speech; Streaming media; Testing; Tracking; Video Recording - methods; Video databases; Face presentation; Face recognition; Moving image; Image databank; Face database; digital video; face tracking

We describe a database of static images and video clips of human faces and people that is useful for testing algorithms for face and person recognition, head/eye tracking, and computer graphics modeling of natural human motions. For each person there are nine static "facial mug shots" and...