Important: To obtain a copy, please email at dhallabhinav[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject: "AFEW/SFEW download" with signed EULA document [EULA PDF].

Acted Facial Expressions In The Wild (AFEW) is a dynamic temporal facial expressions data corpus consisting of close to real world environment extracted from movies. The details can be found in:

Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Simon Lucey, Tom Gedeon, Collecting Large, Richly Annotated Facial-Expression Databases from Movies, IEEE Multimedia 2012 [Pre-Print] (1,165KB)

Static Facial Expressions in the Wild (SFEW) has been developed by selecting frames from AFEW. The details are available in the following paper:

Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Simon Lucey, and Tom Gedeon. Static Facial Expressions in Tough Conditions: Data, Evaluation Protocol And Benchmark, First IEEE International Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies BeFIT, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision ICCV2011, Barcelona, Spain, 6-13 November 2011 [PDF] (323KB) [PPT]

Latest Update

Database Download Counter: 50+ (1 February 2013)

12 February 2013

The first Emotion Recognition In The Wild (EmotiW 2013) challenge and workshop based on AFEW database accepted as part of the grand challenges at ACM ICMI 2013, Sydney. [Details]

1 December 2012

Happy People Images (HAPPEI) [Paper] database containing happiness intensity labelled faces in group photographs. [Details]

25 October 2012

Facial landmark points available for SFEW-SPI (Strictly Person Independent) [Mengyi Liu @ Chinese Academy of Science] [Download] .

24 November 2011

AFEW subset for single subject per clip, is available for download. Please email the author with Subject: "AFEW/SFEW download", if you are interested in getting a version.

20 September 2011

Acted Facial Expressions In The Wild database (AFEW) status - 957 samples, 6 expression classes and a neutral!

18 September 2011

SFEW_PPI (Partial Person Independent) subset released. The dataset contains both seen and unseen subjects across the two sets.
To obtain a copy please email the authors.

1 September 2011

Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Simon Lucey and Tom Gedeon, Static Facial Expression Analysis In Tough Conditions: Data, Evaluation Protocol And Benchmark, Accepted for publication at IEEE ICCV 2011 workshop BEFIT.
Please cite this paper if you are using SFEW database.

13 August 2011

Four video titles added to Acted Facial Expressions In The Wild database.

24 July 2011

SFEW SPI
We propose a facial expression challenge in the "Wild" as part of the BeFIT workshop.
The details of the database and the challenge can be found here. The challenge has been submitted to the BeFIT workshop at ICCV 2011.

To obtain a copy please email at abhinav[dot]dhall[at]anu[dot]edu[dot]au

Abhinav Dhall    Roland Goecke    Simon Lucey    Tom Gedeon