Pilgrims Face Recognition Dataset -- HUFRD
This dataset addresses the need for domain-specific face recognition data in crowded religious settings, but it is incremental as it primarily offers new data rather than novel methods.
The authors introduced a new dataset, HUFRD, containing pilgrims' face images captured outside the Holy Masjid El-Harram in Makkah during the 2011-2012 Hajj and Umrah seasons, to be used for testing facial recognition and detection algorithms and assessing missing and found recognition systems.
In this work, we define a new pilgrims face recognition dataset, called HUFRD dataset. The new developed dataset presents various pilgrims' images taken from outside the Holy Masjid El-Harram in Makkah during the 2011-2012 Hajj and Umrah seasons. Such dataset will be used to test our developed facial recognition and detection algorithms, as well as assess in the missing and found recognition system \cite{crowdsensing}.