The PubFig dataset is divided into 2 parts:

1. The Development Set contains images of 60 individuals. This dataset should be used when developing your algorithm, so as to avoid overfitting on the evaluation set. There is NO overlap between this list and evaluation set, nor between this set and the people in the LFW dataset.
2. The Evaluation Set contains images of the remaining 140 individuals. This is the dataset on which you can evaluate your algorithm to see how it performs.

Due to copyright issues, we cannot distribute image files in any format to anyone. Instead, we have made available a list of image URLs where you can download the images yourself. We realize that this makes it impossible to exactly compare numbers, as image links will slowly disappear over time, but we have no other option. This seems to be the way other large web-based databases seem to be evolving. We hope to periodically update the dataset, removing broken links and adding new ones, allowing for close-to-exact comparisons.