fiftyone.utils.lfw

Utilities for working with the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset.

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Functions:

download_lfw_dataset(dataset_dir[, ...])

Downloads and extracts the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset.

fiftyone.utils.lfw.download_lfw_dataset(dataset_dir, scratch_dir=None, cleanup=True)

Downloads and extracts the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset.

Any existing files are not re-downloaded.

Parameters:

• dataset_dir – the directory to output the final dataset

• scratch_dir (None) – a scratch directory to use to store temporary files

• cleanup (True) – whether to cleanup the scratch directory after extraction