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HIS paper describes the important 2D(two dimensional)
and 3D(three dimensional) face databases developed by
different universities, institutions and research
laboratories from the year 1992 to 2009. This paper is
organized in such a manner that section II is designed to
describe face database developed in the year from 1992 to
2003. Section III is designed to describe the face databases
developed from 2004 to 2009. The following different
approaches are used by database developers: (1) different pose
(2) different illumination conditions, (3) with or without
occlusions, and (4) different age factor.
The Our Laboratory (ORL) Face database [1], Yale face da
-tabase[2], Yale face databaseB (B stands for Big) [3],[4],[5],