sklearn.datasets.fetch_lfw_people¶
- sklearn.datasets.fetch_lfw_people(data_home=None, funneled=True, resize=0.5, min_faces_per_person=0, color=False, slice_=(slice(70, 195, None), slice(78, 172, None)), download_if_missing=True)¶
Loader for the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) people dataset
This dataset is a collection of JPEG pictures of famous people collected on the internet, all details are available on the official website:
Each picture is centered on a single face. Each pixel of each channel (color in RGB) is encoded by a float in range 0.0 - 1.0.
The task is called Face Recognition (or Identification): given the picture of a face, find the name of the person given a training set (gallery).
Parameters: data_home: optional, default: None :
Specify another download and cache folder for the datasets. By default all scikit learn data is stored in ‘~/scikit_learn_data’ subfolders.
funneled: boolean, optional, default: True :
Download and use the funneled variant of the dataset.
resize: float, optional, default 0.5 :
Ratio used to resize the each face picture.
min_faces_per_person: int, optional, default None :
The extracted dataset will only retain pictures of people that have at least min_faces_per_person different pictures.
color: boolean, optional, default False :
Keep the 3 RGB channels instead of averaging them to a single gray level channel. If color is True the shape of the data has one more dimension than than the shape with color = False.
slice_: optional :
Provide a custom 2D slice (height, width) to extract the ‘interesting’ part of the jpeg files and avoid use statistical correlation from the background
download_if_missing: optional, True by default :
If False, raise a IOError if the data is not locally available instead of trying to download the data from the source site.
Returns: dataset : dict-like object with the following attributes:
dataset.data : numpy array of shape (13233, 2914)
Each row corresponds to a ravelled face image of original size 62 x 47 pixels.
dataset.images : numpy array of shape (13233, 62, 47)
Each row is a face image corresponding to one of the 5749 people in the dataset.
dataset.target : numpy array of shape (13233,)
Labels associated to each face image. Those labels range from 0-5748 and correspond to the person IDs.
dataset.DESCR : string
Description of the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset.
