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status: published
title: Annotated Facial Landmarks in The Wild
desc: AFLW: Annotated Facial Landmarks in The Wild
slug: aflw
published: 2019-2-23
updated: 2019-2-23
authors: Adam Harvey

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# Annotated Facial Landmarks in The Wild

+ Years: 1993-1996
+ Images: 25,993
+ Identities: 1,199 
+ Origin: Flickr


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![](aflw_index.gif)*FERET, the first large scale facial recognition dataset*



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> The motivation for the AFLW database is the need for a large-scale, multi-view, real-world face database with annotated facial features. We gathered the images on Flickr using a wide range of face relevant tags (e.g., face, mugshot, profile face). The downloaded set of images was manually scanned for images containing faces. The key data and most important properties of the database are:

<https://www.tugraz.at/institute/icg/research/team-bischof/lrs/downloads/aflw/>