license:cc-by-4.0 region:us
FairFace is a face image dataset which is race balanced. It contains 108,501 images from 7 different race groups: White, Black, Indian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latino.
Images were collected from the YFCC-100M Flickr dataset and labeled with race, gender, and age groups.
@inproceedings{karkkainenfairface,
    title={FairFace: Face Attribute Dataset for Balanced Race, Gender, and Age for Bias Measurement and Mitigation},
    author={Karkkainen, Kimmo and Joo, Jungseock},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision},
    year={2021},
    pages={1548--1558}
}
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license: cc-by-4.0
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# Dataset Card for [Dataset Name]

## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://github.com/joojs/fairface](https://github.com/joojs/fairface)
- **Repository:** [https://github.com/joojs/fairface](https://github.com/joojs/fairface)
- **Paper:** [https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2021/papers/Karkkainen_FairFace_Face_Attribute_Dataset_for_Balanced_Race_Gender_and_Age_WACV_2021_paper.pdf](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2021/papers/Karkkainen_FairFace_Face_Attribute_Dataset_for_Balanced_Race_Gender_and_Age_WACV_2021_paper.pdf)
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### Dataset Summary

FairFace is a face image dataset which is race balanced. It contains 108,501 images from 7 different race groups: White, Black, Indian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latino.
Images were collected from the YFCC-100M Flickr dataset and labeled with race, gender, and age groups.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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### Languages

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## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

Each instance has the following structure:
```
{
    'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=448x448 at 0x7FCABA221FA0>,
    'age': 6,
    'gender': 0,
    'race': 0,
    'service_test': True
}
```

### Data Fields

- `image`: The image
- `age`: Age class among `["0-2", "3-9", "10-19", "20-29", "30-39", "40-49", "50-59", "60-69", "more than 70"]`
- `gender`: Gender class among `["Male", "Female"]`
- `race`: Race class among `["East Asian", "Indian", "Black", "White", "Middle Eastern", "Latino_Hispanic", "Southeast Asian"]`
- `service_test`: Not sure what this is. See [issue](https://github.com/joojs/fairface/issues/9).

### Data Splits

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## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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#### Who are the source language producers?

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### Annotations

#### Annotation process

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#### Who are the annotators?

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### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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### Discussion of Biases

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### Other Known Limitations

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## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

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### Licensing Information

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### Citation Information

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### Contributions

Thanks to [@VictorSanh](https://github.com/VictorSanh) for adding this dataset.
