FaceDesc (beta)

Descriptions of Faces

Introduction

Welcome to our crowd sourcing website. The aim of this task is to gather text descriptions of people's faces that will help us develop an automatic face descriptor tool. Such a tool can be useful for example in forensics for matching descriptions with faces. Thank you for helping us with this task.

Instructions

You will be shown a number of pictures, each showing a person's face. Your task is to provide a description of the face in each picture. To give you some examples of what kind of descriptions we would like to gather we listed four pictures below, each with three (equally suitable) example descriptions.

Your descriptions should not be too short and the examples below should serve as a guideline for the length of descriptions that we need. Do not use personal names (e.g. "This is Michael Jackson").

No personally identifiable data is collected through this exercise and you can stop participating at any point in time.

Please note that the images are copyrighted and can only be used for academic purposes.

Example descriptions
He has short light brown hair, light brown eyes, wrinkles on his forehead, and a chin dimple. He looks somewhat serious.
35ish, white male with brown eyes and straight brown hair, square jaw. He has a slightly quizzical look.
A pensive-looking man in his forties with light brown hair and brown eyes. Could be an actor or so.
Example descriptions
A smiling young woman with long dark brown hair, a slightly dark complexion, elongated eyes, arched eyebrows, and white regular teeth. She could be Indian
Smiling brunette with long straight hair and mediterranean features, looking happy.
Woman in her thirties/forties with styled dark hair and make-up. Seems used to the camera. She could be a presenter or some other media figure.
Example descriptions
A very serious-looking middle-aged man wearing round metal-rimmed glasses. He has a round face and his cheeks are a bit fat and sagging.
Suspicious middle aged man with greying hair and a receding hairline. He is looking at someone else.
Serious older man with thin, dark hair and old-fashioned glasses. Not a very friendly appearance. He could be a politician or business man from a Southern European country.
Example descriptions
A woman in her 40s. She has straight short hair with dark roots and blond ends that come down in a fringe. She has light eyes, a rather small nose. She is wearing small earrings.
A wide eyed woman with blond short hair and red lipstick, looking anxious, reddish skin and bags under her eyes, politician or business-woman type.
A bemused-looking woman with short fair hair and light-coloured eyes.