We are looking for a large database (200+) of pictures of human faces with neutral facial expression, in order to conduct an experiment on nonverbal learning mechanisms. We have difficulties finding appropriate pictures because we need people in the pictures to be Caucasian, age 20 to 40, with neutral facial expression, and on neutral background. Also, it would be very good if the database is free for research purposes use. Can somebody please suggest the existing database that he or she knows?
Thank you in advance,
Jovana
Try this site at MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/emeyers/www/face_databases.html
You may check the links here: http://tdlc.ucsd.edu/contact/tdlc-toolbox.html
although it's a database with expressions of emotions, there are also neutral expressions: http://www.emotionlab.se/resources/kdef
I have a database of Asian faces. Do not hesitate to ask if it is okay.
The Radboud Faces Database is a freely available face database for scientific purposes and it contains caucasian face images
There is also the NimStim database with Neutral expressions
http://www.macbrain.org/resources.htm
Karolinska Institute has large database. It may, or may not, have enough neutral images for your purpose. http://www.emotionlab.se/resources/kdef
Prof. Alex Todorov's group at Princeton has several large databases that can be used, here: http://tlab.princeton.edu/databases/
Extended Cohn-Kanade (CK+) is a large facial database including basic facial expressions. You can take a look at this database.
There is a collection of databases listed under http://www.face-rec.org/databases/ I'm sure that you will find something appropriate there.
Like John Burik, I would suggest Karolinska too :) IAPS has also neutral faces but you won't find 200 neutral expressions
The NimStim face stimulus set may be worth a look. I know they have a lot of faces on there (over 600) but some of these are facial expressions. They definitely have some neutral/calm facial expressions too but not sure how many.
Are you only interested in human faces? Would you be interested by virtual faces?
Dear Jovana,
You could take a look at the Radboud Faces Database. These are high quality pictures of faces. I´m attaching the paper of their research group.
Cheers
Piotr
The classic in this field, at least when it comes to faces with emotional expressions, are the so-called “Ekman-Faces”, the data base contains high-quality photographs of a variety of emotional and neutral expressions, the faces are of mixed ethnic background, however, they seem to have started to charge for the use of their pictures, at least for “training”-purposes, you might still be able to get the stimuli for free for research, I am not sure (http://www.paulekman.com/products/).
Hope this helps, best, Margarita
Dear Jovana,
Refer the following article and as well as the free face database.
http://www.kasrl.org/jaffe.html
You can Use FERET FACE DATASET and FRGC 2.0 data sets. these are huge collection of all types of facial images.
Hi Jovana,
We have created a face dataset recently. It contains around 34512 images of 100 subject with atleast 200 samples per subject. But it does not have neutral background and expression. Nevertheless, explore the database at the below link and see if it suits your problem.
http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/projects/IMFDB/
Other large scale face datasets are
LFW: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/
PubFigs: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/databases/pubfig/
YouTube Faces: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~wolf/ytfaces/
AFLW : https://lrs.icg.tugraz.at/research/aflw/
AFLW has many images with plain and neutral background but does not include many samples per subject.
What do you intend to do with the database. Can you elaborate? I did not understand what non-verbal learning mechanism means
Hi Jovana, you may find the RAVDESS helpful in your paradigm. It's a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. It contain 7356 recordings in English. It contains two baseline emotions: neutral and calm, along with happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprise, and disgust. Each at two emotional intensities. The stimuli are dynamic (not still photos).
Article The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and So...
Hi! For anyone else seeking such a database, I have combed through all of the resources listed here in addition to numerous other sources in order to construct the Face Image Meta-Database (fIMDb): https://cliffordworkman.com/resources/
The fIMDb includes info or estimates on: number of photo sets per source (and numbers of neutral and other sets — e.g., facial emotions), number of subjects per source (with approximate sex distributions), total number of images, approximate number of viewpoints, whether the sources includes photos from more than one ethnicity, whether it includes more than one age group, whether meta-data are available, the photo category (e.g., posed, wild), the reference(s) for the source (e.g. DOIs). I hope this will aid others interested in conducting research on responses to faces.
A subset of this database is of neutral facial expressions: http://www.consortium.ri.cmu.edu/ckagree/
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