BioID Face Database
- Dataset for face detection. 1521 gray level images, 384x286 pixel, 23 people with manually set eye positions.
- http://www.humanscan.com/support/downloads/facedb.php

UMIST Face Database
- 564 images of 20 people, covering a range of poses from profile to frontal views. The files are all in PGM format, approximately 220 x 220 pixels in 256 shades of grey.
- http://images.ee.umist.ac.uk/danny/database.html

NIST FERET
- Standard face database for the evaluation of face recognition systems.
- http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/humanid/feret/

Yale Face Database
- 15 subjects, 11 images per subject; grayscale images; GIFs; center-light, with glasses, happy, left-light, without glasses, normal, right-light, sad, sleepy, surprised, winking; 6.5M free download; registration required.
- http://cvc.yale.edu/projects/yalefaces/yalefaces.html

The XM2VTS Database
- Motion video, accompanying sound and individual images; 295 subjects, 4 recordings per subject over 4 months; color images; resolution 720x576; 32KHz 16-bit mono sound; zipped PPMs; varying posture; varying illumination (controlled); speaking subjects; st
- http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/xm2vtsdb/

Oulu Physics-Based Face Database
- Images, skin spectral reflectance measurements of subjects, camera channel response and spectral power distribution of illuminants used. 111 subjects, 16 images per subject (32 images if glasses present); resolution 428x569; 24-bit RGB images; compressed
- http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/imag/color/pbfd.html

Ljubljani CVL Face Database
- 114 persons, 7 images per person; resolution 640x480; color images; JPEGs; uniform background and lighting; side views; varying facial expressions; request database from researcher.
- http://www.lrv.fri.uni-lj.si/facedb.html

Aleix Face Database
- 126 subjects; over 4000 images taken over 2 identical sessions 2 weeks apart; resolution 768x576; 24-bit raw images; controlled varying illumination, facial expression and occlusions; uncontrolled clothing, make-up, hairstyle; stored on 10 CDs; free downl
- http://rvl1.ecn.purdue.edu/~aleix/aleix_face_DB.html