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SiblingsDB - Content description

The SiblingsDB contains different datasets depicting images of individuals realted by sibling relationships. Actually, the images
are organized in two different DBs.
The first, called HQfaces, contains a set of high quality images depicting 184 individuals (92 pairs of siblings). A subset of 79
pairs contains profile images as well, and 56 of them have also smiling frontal and profile pictures. The images, with
resolution 4256x2832, were shot by a professional photographer with uniform background and controlled lighting. The
subjects are voluntary students and employees of the Politecnico di Torino and their siblings, in the age range between 13 and
50 (average 23.1). The highest and average age differences between siblings are 30 and 4.6 years, respectively. All subjects
are Caucasian and 57% of them are male. Subjects were asked not to wear make-up. The images have been organized into
three Individual Datasets (IDS), namely HQf, HQfp and HQfps:
HQf: frontal expressionless images of 184 subjects (92 sibling pairs);
HQfp: 158 individuals, each represented by one frontal and one profile expressionless images (79 sibling pairs);
HQfps: 112 individuals, each represented by a set of four images per individual. Two expressionless frontal and
profile, and two smiling frontal and profile images (56 sibling pairs).
All the images are annotated with, respectively, the position of 76 landmarks on frontal images and 12 landmarks on profile
images. For each individual the information on sex, birth date, age and votes of the panel of human raters (who were asked
to evaluate if the couples depict siblings or not) are also available. For each IDS, we created a Pair Dataset (PDS) for our
experiments containing all the positive pairs, the N/2 pairs of siblings, and an equal number of randomly chosen negative,
non-sibling, samples.

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Examples of frontal, profile and smiling facial images of siblings (last row) and of non siblings (first row) in HQfaces

The second DB, called LQfaces, contains contains 98 pairs of siblings (196 individuals) found over the Internet, where most of
the subjects are celebrities. The photographs have different resolutions (approximately from a few hundred to more than
3,000 pixels across). The poses are semi-frontal. Faces often show expressions (smile), and images were taken under different
lighting conditions. Profiles are not available in LQfaces. The individuals are 45.5% male and mainly Caucasian. The position of
the 76 frontal facial landmarks are provided as well, but this dataset does not include the age information and the HP ratings
(human expert ratings were not collected since this dataset is composed mainly of well-known personages and, hence, likely
to produce biased ratings). Data are organized in the same way as the previous datasets.

Examples of images in LQfaces

Experimental protocol

Two different experiments were performed in our work:

1. within DB experiments. Each PDS (HQf, HQfp, HQfps and LQfaces) was classified assessing results using stratified
five-fold cross-validation (CV); the accuracies reported in the paper are the average classification rates of the classifier
over the different CV rounds.
2. Cross-DB experiment. HQf PDS was used for training and LQfaces for testing
Please refer to the following paper for further details on the DB and on the experimental results:
T.F. Vieira, A. Bottino, A. Laurentini, M. De Simone, Detecting Siblings in Image Pairs, The Visual Computer, 2013, vol XX, p.
YY, doi: 10.1007/s00371-013-0884-3

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SiblingsDB is available for free for non-commercial, research purposes. Please read the license agreement before proceeding
and then send an e-mail request here from your university/research institute/lab mail, including your full affiliation and the
intended use of the DB.
The complete package contains the following:
Raw image set (unaligned)
Meta-data (subject data, landmark position on the images)
Experimental sets (pair datasets of the experiments described in the TVC paper that can be used for fair comparison)
Related Papers

T.F. Vieira, A. Bottino, A. Laurentini, M. De Simone

Detecting Siblings in Image Pairs
The Visual Computer, to appear, 2013 (DOI)
T.F. Vieira, A. Bottino, I. Ul Isalm
Automatic Verification of Parent-Child Pairs from Face Images
Proceedings of CIARP 2013, Havana, Cuba, 20-23 November, 2013
A. Bottino, M. De Simone, A. Laurentini, T. Vieira
A new problem in face image analysis: Finding kinship clues for siblings pairs
Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition Application and Methods, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal,
6-8 february 2012. pp. 153-162

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