Head Pose Databases From Other Research Groups

 

We list some face databases widely used for head pose related studies, and summarize the specifications of these databases as below.

 

1. Gaze Interaction For Everybody (GI4E) dataset.  

o       Source: The GI4E dataset is built by GI4E group,

o       Purpose: The GI4E dataset contains facial videos with continuous head pose annotations.  

o       Properties:

Properties

Descriptions

# of subjects

10

# of images/videos

120 videos.

Static/Videos

Videos.

Single/Multiple faces

Single

Gray/Color

color

Resolution

-

Face pose

Various poses

Facial expression

-

Illumination

-

3D data

-

Ground truth

head pose annotations

o       Reference: refer to the paper: Mikel Ariz, Jose J. Bengoechea, Arantxa Villanueva, Rafael Cabeza, A novel 2D/3D database with automatic face annotation for head tracking and pose estimation, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 148, July 2016, Pages 201-210

 

2. Boston University (BU) head tracking dataset.  

o       Source: The BU head tracking dataset is built by the image and video computing group at Boston University,

o       Purpose: The BU head tracking dataset contains facial videos with continuous head pose annotations.  

o       Properties:

Properties

Descriptions

# of subjects

7

# of images/videos

70+ videos

Static/Videos

Videos

Single/Multiple faces

Single

Gray/Color

color

Resolution

320*240

Face pose

Various poses

Facial expression

-

Illumination

Uniform and varying lighting subsets

3D data

-

Ground truth

Continuous head pose annotations

o       Reference: refer to the paper: M. La Cascia, S. Sclaroff, and V. Athitsos, "Fast, Reliable Head Tracking under Varying Illumination: An Approach Based on Robust Registration of Texture-Mapped 3D Models", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 22(4), April, 2000.

 

  1. Pointing Head Pose Image Database

o       Source: this database is obtained from http://www-prima.inrialpes.fr/Pointing04/data-face.html .

o       Purpose: this database is primarily used for face pose estimation task. It may also be used for face recognition.

o       Properties:

Properties

Descriptions

# of subjects

15

# of images/videos

2790

Static/Videos

Static

Single/Multiple faces

Single

Gray/Color

Color

Resolution

384*288

Face pose

Vertical: -90, -60, -30, -15, 0, +15, +30, +60 +90

Horizontal: -90, -75, -60, -45, -30, -15, 0, +15, +30, +45, +60, +75, +90

Facial expression

Neutral

Illumination

N/A

Accessories

Glasses

3D data

N/A

Ground truth

Identifications of subjects

Face pose angles

o       Reference: Please refer to the paper: N. Gourier, D. Hall, and J. L. Crowley, Estimating Face Orientation from Robust Detection of Salient Facial Features, Proc. of Pointing 2004, ICPR, International Workshop on Visual Observation of Deictic Gestures.