Iranian Face Database (IFDB) - Version 1

Iranian Face Database (IFDB) was collected during Sep. 2006 – Jan. 2007 and contains facial images with exact age information. Permission is hereby granted, with CHARGE, to the person who signed this agreement and got the archive on his/her email. Failure to observe the restrictions will result in access being denied for the request of the future version of IFDB and being subject to civil damages in the case of publication of images that have not been approved for release.

NOTE 1: The images are available in JPEG format; you may use and reproduce images from this database, or parts of this database, for research purposes only; however, shall not modify the downloaded images themselves.

NOTE 2: As such, these images may be published and/or presented in academic journals or scientific conference proceedings or used in classroom settings and other similar academic settings, provided that attribution is given as described in NOTE 3.

NOTE 3: The following acknowledgment and citation should be provided as appropriate. “CREDIT IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE PATTERN RESEARCH CENTER, IRAN FOR PROVIDING THE DATABASE OF FACIAL IMAGES”
[1] Dehshibi, M. M., & Shanbehzadeh, J. (2017). Cubic norm and kernel-based bi-directional PCA: toward age-aware facial kinship verification. The Visual Computer, 1-18.
[2] Dehshibi, M. M., & Bastanfard, A. (2010). A new algorithm for age recognition from facial images. Signal Processing, 90(8), 2431-2444.
[3] Bastanfard, A., Nik, M. A., & Dehshibi, M. M. (2007). Iranian face database with age, pose and expression. In Machine Vision, 2007. ICMV 2007. International Conference on (pp. 50-55). IEEE.

NOTE 4: Some female’s images are also provided in this database. These images will never appear in any document of any form. Furthermore, any images will never be released in commercial materials, newspapers, or other public Media to PRESERVE THE PRIVACY OF THE DATABASE PARTICIPANTS AND OBSERVE LEGAL REASONS. Only those images that were already published in the mentioned citations may be used for presentation or publications.

NOTE 5: The archive file is encrypted. Please find the attached agreement form. After signing it and asking your institution to seal it with its official stamp, send back it to me (mohammad[dot]dehshibi[@]yahoo[dot]com) with a LINK TO YOUR PUBLICATION RECORD. Then, the password would be sent to you.

伊朗人脸数据库（Iranian Face Database, IFDB）采集于2006年9月至2007年1月，包含带有精确年龄标注的面部图像。特此授权签署本协议并通过邮箱获取该数据集归档文件的使用者，需支付相关使用费用。若违反本协议的使用限制，申请者将被拒绝后续版本IFDB的获取权限，并需为未经许可发布图像的行为承担民事赔偿责任。

注意事项1：本数据库的图像采用JPEG格式，仅可出于科研目的使用、复制本数据库或其部分内容，但不得修改下载后的原始图像文件。

注意事项2：此类图像可在学术期刊、科学会议论文集或课堂教学及其他类似学术场景中发布或展示，但需按照注意事项3的要求注明来源。

注意事项3：需按规范提供以下致谢与引用内容：“本数据集的面部图像由伊朗模式研究中心提供，特此致谢。”
[1] Dehshibi, M. M., & Shanbehzadeh, J. (2017). 三次范数与基于核的双向主成分分析：面向年龄感知的面部亲缘验证. 《可视化计算机》（The Visual Computer）, 1-18.
[2] Dehshibi, M. M., & Bastanfard, A. (2010). 一种基于面部图像的年龄识别新算法. 《信号处理》（Signal Processing）, 90(8), 2431-2444.
[3] Bastanfard, A., Nik, M. A., & Dehshibi, M. M. (2007). 包含年龄、姿态与表情的伊朗人脸数据库. 见：2007年国际机器视觉会议（ICMV 2007）论文集（第50-55页）. IEEE.

注意事项4：本数据库中还包含部分女性受试者的图像。出于保护数据库参与者隐私及合规性考量，此类图像绝不会以任何形式出现在各类文档中，且绝不会被用于商业物料、报纸或其他公共媒体。仅本注意事项3提及的已发表文献中使用的图像，方可用于展示或发布。

注意事项5：数据集归档文件为加密格式。请参阅随附的协议表格。签署协议并由所在机构加盖公章后，请将协议扫描件连同您的学术发表记录链接发送至邮箱mohammad[dot]dehshibi[@]yahoo[dot]com，随后将收到归档文件的解密密码。