The Facial Recognition Technology (FERET) database is a dataset used for

facial recognition system A facial recognition system is a technology capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces. Such a system is typically employed to authenticate users through ID verification services, and wo ...

evaluation as part of the Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program. It was first established in 1993 under a collaborative effort between Dr. Harry Wechsler at

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

and Dr. Jonathan Phillips at the

Army Research Laboratory The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) is the U.S. Army's foundational research laboratory. ARL is headquartered at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC) in Adelphi, Maryland. Its largest singl ...

in Adelphi, Maryland. The FERET database serves as a standard database of facial images for researchers to use to develop various algorithms and report results. The use of a common database also allowed one to compare the effectiveness of different approaches in methodology and gauge their strengths and weaknesses. The facial images for the database were collected between December 1993 and August 1996, accumulating a total of 14,126 images pertaining to 1199 individuals along with 365 duplicate sets of images that were taken on a different day. In 2003, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a high-resolution, 24-bit color version of these images. The dataset tested includes 2,413 still facial images, representing 856 individuals. The FERET database has been used by more than 460 research groups and is managed by the

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

(NIST).P. J. Phillips, H. Moon, S. A. Rizvi, and P. J. Rauss (January 7, 1999).
The FERET Evaluation Methodology for Face-recognition Algorithms
. ''NISTIR 6264 and IEEE Trans. Patern Analysis and Machine Intelligence'', 22(10), Oct. 2000.

References

External links

Official website about the gray-scale version

Official website about the color version

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, VOL. 22, NO. 10, October 2000More documents about FERET
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feret Database Biometric databases Datasets in computer vision Face recognition Scientific databases Test items Machine learning task Automatic identification and data capture Surveillance