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Release 1 of LFPW consists of 1,432 faces from images downloaded from the web using simple text queries on sites such as google.com, flickr.com, and yahoo.com. Each image was labeled by three MTurk workers, and 29 fiducial points, shown below, are included in dataset. LFPW was originally described in the following publication:
Due to copyright issues, we cannot distribute image files in any format to anyone. Instead, we have made available a list of image URLs where you can download the images yourself. We realize that this makes it impossible to exactly compare numbers, as image links will slowly disappear over time, but we have no other option. This seems to be the way other large web-based databases seem to be evolving.
https://neerajkumar.org/databases/lfpw/
This research was performed at Kriegman-Belhumeur Vision Technologies and was funded by the CIA through the Office of the Chief Scientist. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~peiyunh/topdown/ (nk_cvpr2011_faceparts.pdf)