ORL

Read Olivetti ORL face database (now ATT)

   A = ORL

This creates a datafile A pointing to the ORL (now AT&T) database of  faces. There are 400 images of size 92*112 of 40 individuals, 10 for each  of them. They are stored as 40 classes with each 10 objects.

The command FACES returns a dataset of the same images.

In case ORL is not available, it may be automatically downloaded  and installed. If this fails an error is generated.

When using these images, please give credit to Olivetti Research Laboratory.  A convenient reference is the face recognition work which uses some of  these images

F. Samaria and A. Harter    "Parameterisation of a stochastic model for human face identification",
    2nd IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
    December 1994, Sarasota (Florida).

The paper is available via anonymous ftp from quince.cam-orl.co.uk and is  stored in pub/users/fs/IEEE_workshop.ps.Z

If you have any question, please email Ferdinando Samaria: fs@cam-orl.co.uk

See also

datafiles, show, faces,