PIE Database - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Graphical depiction of the PIE Database project
PIE Database

Archived CS Page: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/PIE/MultiPie/Multi-Pie/Home.html

Access to this dataset can be acquired via its Flintbox Page

Between October and December 2000 we collected a database of 41,368 images of 68 people. By extending the CMU 3D Room we were able to image each person under 13 different poses, 43 different illumination conditions, and with 4 different expressions. We call this database the CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) database.

The following images and movies illustrate the variation in the database.
Pose:


Illumination:

A movie illustrating the illumination variation with the ambient lights off.
A movie illustrating the illumination variation with the ambient lights on.

Expression:

A movie illustrating the talking expression variation.

Displaying 4 Publications

2003
The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression Database
Terence Sim, Simon Baker, and Maan Bsat
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 1615 - 1618, December, 2003
Multi-Subregion Based Probabilistic Approach Toward Pose-Invariant Face Recognition
Takeo Kanade and Akihiko Yamada
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA '03), pp. 954 - 959, July, 2003
2002
The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database
Terence Sim, Simon Baker, and Maan Bsat
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '02), pp. 53 - 58, May, 2002
2001
The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Database of Human Faces
Terence Sim, Simon Baker, and Maan Bsat
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-01-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001

past past

  • Simon Baker
  • Ralph Gross
  • Terence Sim