LFW

The Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) format is primarily used for face verification and face recognition tasks. The LFW format is designed to be straightforward and is compatible with a variety of machine learning and deep learning frameworks.

For more information, see:

• LFW site
• Format specification
• Dataset examples

Export LFW annotation

For export of images:

• Supported annotations: Tags, Skeletons.

• Attributes:

  • negative_pairs (should be defined for labels as text): list of image names with mismatched persons.
  • positive_pairs (should be defined for labels as text): list of image names with matched persons.

• Tracks: Not supported.

The downloaded file is a .zip archive with the following structure:

<archive_name>.zip/
    └── images/ # if the option save images was selected
    │    ├── name1/
    │    │   ├── name1_0001.jpg
    │    │   ├── name1_0002.jpg
    │    │   ├── ...
    │    ├── name2/
    │    │   ├── name2_0001.jpg
    │    │   ├── name2_0002.jpg
    │    │   ├── ...
    │    ├── ...
    ├── landmarks.txt
    ├── pairs.txt
    └── people.txt

Import LFW annotation

The uploaded annotations file should be a zip file with the following structure:

<archive_name>.zip/
    └── annotations/
        ├── landmarks.txt # list with landmark points for each image
        ├── pairs.txt # list of matched and mismatched pairs of person
        └── people.txt # optional file with a list of persons name

Full information about the content of annotation files is available here

Example: create task with images and upload LFW annotations into it

This is one of the possible ways to create a task and add LFW annotations for it.

• On the task creation page:
  • Add labels that correspond to the names of the persons.
  • For each label define text attributes with names positive_pairs and negative_pairs
  • Add images using zip archive from local repository:

images.zip/
    ├── name1_0001.jpg
    ├── name1_0002.jpg
    ├── ...
    ├── name1_<N>.jpg
    ├── name2_0001.jpg
    ├── ...

• On the annotation page: Upload annotation -> LFW 1.0 -> choose archive with structure that described in the import section.