This repository contains scripts automating conversion of the FDDB dataset to a format required by the Darknet framework.

Use the following links in order to download the complete FDDB dataset.

wget http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/fddb/FDDB-folds.tgz
wget http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/fddb/README.txt
wget http://tamaraberg.com/faceDataset/originalPics.tar.gz

Create a new folder named images and unpack the supplied images inside of it.

mdkir images
tar -xzvf originalPics.tar.gz images

Install the required Python libraries.

pip install Pillow

Generate all the files required by the Darknet.

./scripts/cs_fddb_prepare_FDDB-folds.sh
python ./scripts/cs_fddb_convert_to_darknet.py

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. For more information, please refer to the LICENSE file.