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status: published
title: MegaFace
desc: MegaFace Dataset
subdesc: MegaFace contains 670K identities and 4.7M images
caption: Example images from the MegaFace dataset
slug: megaface
cssclass: dataset
caption: Images from the MegaFace face recognition training and benchmarking dataset
image: assets/background.jpg
year: 2016
published: 2019-4-18
updated: 2019-4-18
authors: Adam Harvey

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# MegaFace

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MegaFace is a dataset of 4,700,000 face images of 672,000 individuals used for developing face recognition technologies. All images were downloaded from Flickr.

#### How was it made

MegaFace was developed by the University of Washington for the purpose of trainng, validating, and benchmarking face recognition algorithms.

The images are from Flickr, but are they all from YFCC100M?

#### Who used it

MegaFace was used for research projects associated with SenseTime, Google, Mitsubishi, Vision Semantics Ltd, Microsoft.

#### Subsets

MegaFace was also used for MegaFace Asian, and MegaAge, and glasses.

#### A sample of the research projects

Used for face recognition

screenshots of papers

#### Visuals

- facial landmarks
- bounding boxes
- animation of all the titles of the paper
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### Age and Gender Distribution

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```
single_pie_chart /datasets/megaface/assets/age.csv
Caption: MegaFace dataset age distribution
Top: 10
OtherLabel: Other
```

```
single_pie_chart /datasets/megaface/assets/gender.csv
Caption: MegaFace dataset gender distribution
Top: 10
OtherLabel: Other
```

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### Footnotes