10k US Adult Faces Database
Main Citation: Bainbridge, W.A., Isola, P., & Oliva, A. (2013). The intrinsic memorability of face images.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(4), 1323-1334.

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Related citation: Khosla, A., Bainbridge, W.A., Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2013). Modifying the memorability of face photographs.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney, Australia.

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Now with over 2500 downloads, from 105 countries and all 50 states!
This database contains 10,168 natural face photographs and several measures for 2,222 of the faces, including memorability scores, computer vision and psychology attributes, and landmark point annotations. The face photographs are JPEGs with 72 pixels/in resolution and 256-pixel height. The attribute data are stored in either MATLAB or Excel files. Landmark annotations are stored in TXT files. Any parts of the database may be used upon citation of the article and acceptance of the license agreement. To obtain the database, fill out the following form to get access information.
*New*: (7/15/15) The database now has manual ground-truth annotations of 77 different landmark points on each of the 2,222 target faces. This is particularly useful for face recognition, manipulation, and active appearance modeling.
*New*: (7/15/15) The psychology attributes now include participant information, so you can now easily study subject-centric (versus item-centric) face and memory effects.
*New*: (4/18/14) The database now additionally includes a software tool that allows you to export custom image sets from the database for your own research, based on our collected attributes and memorability information. (Ex: You can now easily create a stimulus set of faces based on memorability, gender, race, emotion, attractiveness, etc).
How to download:
In order to ensure that these data are used solely for research purposes, we have password protected the download. To get the password, fill out this form and we will send you a password. The password will bring you to a license agreement, and upon agreement you will have access to the database. (Note: if this form opens your mail client, just send the e-mail that is created with the relevant information. If that does not work, just send the information entered here).
Due to high volume of requests, it takes about ~1 week to respond to database requests.
Please complete all information accurately to get a quick response.
This work was funded by National Science Foundation Grant 1016862 and by Google and Xerox Research Awards to Aude Oliva.
Recent Updates
June 11, 2024 Summer is a good time to update - latest pubs, press, and CV.
December 15, 2023 Was away having twins last year! Have now updated the lastest publications, press, and CV.
August 12, 2022 Updated publications, press, and CV.
February 14, 2022 Updated publications and press again! Happy Valentines!
June 9, 2021 Updated publications and press.
December 16, 2020 Various new papers and have uploaded a database of drawings by aphantasics.
January 30, 2020 Updated the site to reflect my new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
July 3, 2019 Updated publications. Also starting to recruit for my new lab to start at University of Chicago in January!!
November 1, 2018 Added press section and memory drawing dataset, updated publications
May 14, 2018 Added classes section with a tutorial on Big Data.
February 2, 2018 Updated publications and CV.
May 16, 2017 Added example psychophysical scripts for free use
January 31, 2017 Updated publication and added new tools: 40+ ROI maps and a Memorability Experiment Maker!
September 9, 2016 Updated my site to reflect my institute change!
May 11, 2016 I finished my Ph.D! Updated CV and publications.
August 6, 2015 Uploaded the Interaction Envelope Dataset and the MATLAB Image Statistics Toolbox!
July 23, 2015 Added annotations and participant information to the 10k US Adult Faces database! Also added previews of upcoming databases and updated publications.
May 29, 2015 Updated publications and CV.
October 6, 2014 Updated publications, CV, and bio. Got some poster awards!
April 18, 2014 Updated publications and added a program for easily making image sets from the Face Database
January 14, 2014 Updated publications and the 10k US Adults Face database! Get it while it's fresh!
September 23, 2013 Updated publications
June 11, 2013 Uploaded public datasets and edited publications
April 26, 2013 Updated publications and CV - got a teaching award!
August 28, 2012 Updated publications and CV.
March 12, 2012 Updated bio, school, and papers.
March 31, 2011 Updated bio and publications list (decided on a grad school and got three more papers in!)
May 24, 2010 All graduated! Updated profile and CV information
November 9, 2009 Uploaded the Japanese version of this site, and made minor edits.
November 4, 2009 Little tweaks made to the site. The Japanese version will be uploaded in the next couple of days!
November 2, 2009 This site was first created!