{"url":"/dataset/thermal-face-database","name":"Thermal Face Database","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"High-resolution thermal infrared face database with extensive manual annotations, introduced by Kopaczka et al, 2018. Useful for training algoeithms for image processing tasks as well as facial expression recognition. The full database itself, all annotations and the complete source code are freely available from the authors for research purposes at https://github.com/marcinkopaczka/thermalfaceproject.\r\n\r\nPlease cite following papers for the dataset:\r\n[1] M. Kopaczka, R. Kolk and D. Merhof, \"A fully annotated thermal face database and its application for thermal facial expression recognition,\" 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2MTC.2018.8409768.\r\n[2] Kopaczka, M., Kolk, R., Schock, J., Burkhard, F., & Merhof, D. (2018). A thermal infrared face database with facial landmarks and emotion labels. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(5), 1389-1401.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/marcinkopaczka/thermalfaceproject","introduced_date":"2018-07-12","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":{"name":"BSD-3-Clause license","url":"https://transfer.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/IRDatabase/LfB_License.pdf"},"modalities":[{"name":"Images","url":"/datasets/modality/images"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Semantic Segmentation","url":"/task/semantic-segmentation","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/semantic-segmentation"},{"name":"Facial Landmark Detection","url":"/task/facial-landmark-detection","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/facial-landmark-detection"},{"name":"Facial Action Unit Detection","url":"/task/facial-action-unit-detection","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/facial-action-unit-detection"},{"name":"Facial Emotion Recognition","url":"/task/facial-emotion-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/facial-emotion-recognition"}],"languages":[],"variants":["Thermal Face Database"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}