In order to facilitate the study of age and gender recognition, we provide a data set and benchmark of face photos. The data included in this collection is intended to be as true as possible to the challenges of real-world imaging conditions. In particular, it attempts to capture all the variations in appearance, noise, pose, lighting and more, that can be expected of images taken without careful preparation or posing.
The sources of the images included in our set are Flickr albums, assembled by automatic upload from iPhone5 (or later) smart-phone devices, and released by their authors to the general public under the Creative Commons (CC) license.