One of the most influential face databases is the FERET or COLOR FERET database:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/colorferet.cfm
The database contains 1564 sets of images for a total of 14,126 images that includes 1199 individuals and 365 duplicate sets of images. One very nice thing about the database is that depicted faces are multiply photographed over a period of several years enabling you to use pictorially different face stimuli of one single person.
If you're interested in Emotions, there are a series of databases, e.g., the Cohn-Kanade database: The positive thing about the database is that Action Units are coded, but the quality is relatively low.
The The Yale Face Database also contains different expressions, but only 15 individual have been depicted.
Most databases contain Caucasians, but if you're interested in faces of other morphological groups, I would like to refer you to specific face databases as you should be very specific with the morphology, e.g. to the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University NIR Face Database, the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hyperspectral Face Database (PolyU-HSFD) or the The Iranian Face Database (IFDB) and the Indian Face Database.
A special case takes the Tübingen-3D database from Max Planck Institute, where you find 3D-modelled faces with possibility to get different perspectives of these faces.
Sometimes it is most helpful to ask for specific faces from specific studies if you are very clear on your hypotheses or want to replicate a given effect.
You should choose the database according to the specific topic you want to study. You could get a look to our new database http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12559-012-9163-2.pdf and get it for free
One of the most influential face databases is the FERET or COLOR FERET database:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/colorferet.cfm
The database contains 1564 sets of images for a total of 14,126 images that includes 1199 individuals and 365 duplicate sets of images. One very nice thing about the database is that depicted faces are multiply photographed over a period of several years enabling you to use pictorially different face stimuli of one single person.
If you're interested in Emotions, there are a series of databases, e.g., the Cohn-Kanade database: The positive thing about the database is that Action Units are coded, but the quality is relatively low.
The The Yale Face Database also contains different expressions, but only 15 individual have been depicted.
Most databases contain Caucasians, but if you're interested in faces of other morphological groups, I would like to refer you to specific face databases as you should be very specific with the morphology, e.g. to the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University NIR Face Database, the The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hyperspectral Face Database (PolyU-HSFD) or the The Iranian Face Database (IFDB) and the Indian Face Database.
A special case takes the Tübingen-3D database from Max Planck Institute, where you find 3D-modelled faces with possibility to get different perspectives of these faces.
Sometimes it is most helpful to ask for specific faces from specific studies if you are very clear on your hypotheses or want to replicate a given effect.
Hi! For anyone else seeking a database of face stimuli, 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.