Face recognition

One of my all-time favorite topics of computer science has always been face recognition, which is why I picked it as a topic for my dissertation. More specifically, I will be working on a real-life application to identify victims of big disasters using pictures send in by family (thousands of people sending in images to try to identify family members).

The big problem is: I can't use those pictures in my research without consent and I can't really request the consent due to the gruesome circumstances. So I'm looking for the second best solution: time lapse photographs. Which is why I blogged about it in the first place :)

I'm looking for some people willing to provide me with some photographs taken at various points in their life. Ideally 1 photograph for every 2-3 years of aging, starting at childhood, but I'm happy with everything I can get my hands on. I already contacted several people who are doing "one picture every day" projects, and they were all kind enough to help me out, but more data is always better :).

• (All images will only be used to test computer algorithms, optionally 1 or 2 will appear in my dissertation text, but only with your explicit consent)
• (The pictures don't have to be 'perfect'; facial hair, glasses, piercings, tattoos, scars, ... are all perfectly acceptable. It's actually better since it will increase the variation in my test data)
  

You can send pictures to ben (dot) motmans (at) gmail (dot) com .
Thanks!