AxonData/face-recognition-dataset
Face Recognition Dataset Commercial collection of 100,000+ portrait images with multi-ethnic demographic coverage Dataset Summary The Axon Labs Face Recognition Dataset is one of the largest commercial face recognition collections available with guaranteed commercial-use licensing, featuring: 100,000+ high-quality face images Multi-ethnic demographic coverage across nationalities and ethnicities Balanced gender distribution Wide age range from adults to seniors… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/AxonData/face-recognition-dataset.
Face Recognition Dataset
Commercial collection of 100,000+ portrait images with multi-ethnic demographic coverage
Dataset Summary
The Axon Labs Face Recognition Dataset is one of the largest commercial face recognition collections available with guaranteed commercial-use licensing, featuring:
- 100,000+ high-quality face images
- Multi-ethnic demographic coverage across nationalities and ethnicities
- Balanced gender distribution
- Wide age range from adults to seniors
- Varied capture conditions (devices, lighting, angles)
- Commercial license for production AI systems
- GDPR-compliant with explicit subject consent
Use Cases
- Face Recognition: train or fine-tune face recognition models on diverse populations
- Face Verification: evaluate 1:1 matching algorithms across demographics
- Face Detection: test detection pipelines on real portrait data
- KYC / Identity Verification: validate models used in remote onboarding
- Benchmarking: compare performance of commercial face recognition systems
- Demographic Bias Analysis: evaluate model fairness across ethnicities, genders, and age groups
Full Dataset Characteristics
Why This Dataset
High-quality face recognition datasets suitable for commercial use are scarce. Most public datasets have restrictive academic-only licenses, lack demographic balance, or contain low-quality images unsuitable for production model training. The Axon Labs Face Recognition Dataset addresses these gaps:
- Scale: 100,000+ images - one of the largest commercial FR datasets available
- Demographic diversity: multi-ethnic coverage enables fair models across populations
- Commercial usability: licensed for production deployment, not academic-only
- Quality over quantity: every image verified for face visibility and technical quality
- Consent-based: all subjects provided explicit GDPR-compliant consent
- Sample available: evaluate the data before committing to a commercial license
Related Datasets from Axon Labs
Axon Labs provides a full catalog of biometric datasets for AI training:
- [Selfies and Paired ID Photos Dataset](https://axonlab.ai/dataset/selfies-and-id-photo/) - 10K+ pairs for selfie-to-ID matching (KYC use case)
- [Selfie and Video Dataset](https://axonlab.ai/dataset/selfie-and-video-dataset/) - video samples for liveness + face recognition combined
- [NIST Dataset](https://axonlab.ai/dataset/nist-face-recognition-dataset/) - benchmark data for NIST FRVT testing
See the full catalog at axonlab.ai/datasets
For commercial use, production deployment, or access to the full 100,000+ image dataset - contact us on axonlab.ai
About Axon Labs
Axon Labs creates high-quality datasets for AI training, with a focus on biometric security, face recognition, and liveness detection. Our datasets are used by leading biometric vendors including identity verification platforms, fintech companies, and KYC providers
- Website: axonlab.ai
- Contact: sales@axonlabs.pro
- Full catalog: axonlab.ai/datasets
Other Axon Labs datasets on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/AxonData