Name Key Information Year Source Reference Owner
EICZA (Ears of Infant Cohort in Zambia with Aging) Dataset Longitudinal dataset with 3,330 ear images of 177 infants, photographed multiple times between 6 days and 9 months old. 2023 Access Link Cite Boston University
BabyEar4k Dataset Publicly available dataset of 3,852 newborn ears from 1,926 newborns. 2023 Access Link Cite Fudan University
KinEar Dataset 1,477 images of 76 subjects with 37,282 kinship image pairs (mother-daughter, father-son, etc.). 2022 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC) 2019 Dataset 11,804 images (2,304 train + 9,500 test) from AWE, AWEx, CVL, and new impostors. 2019 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
EarVN1.0 Dataset Large-scale dataset with over 28,412 color images of 164 Asian individuals (98 males, 66 females). 2019 Access Link Cite Ho Chi Minh City Open University
AMI Ear Database Contains 700 images from 100 subjects (19-65 years). 2018 Access Link Cite ULPGC
Annotated Web Ears – Extended (AWEx) Dataset 4,104 images (including AWE and CVL datasets) with 346 subjects. 2018 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Deformable Models of Ears in-the-Wild for Alignment and Recognition This dataset comprises 2,058 unconstrained ear images from 231 subjects, each annotated with 55 landmarks. 2017 Access Link Cite iBUG Group, Imperial College London
Annotated Web Ears (AWE) Dataset 1,000 images of 100 subjects (10 images/subject) collected from unconstrained web sources. 2017 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC) 2017 Dataset Includes 11,804 images and 3,704 subjects with standardized annotations. 2017 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Additional (CVL Ear) Dataset 804 images of 16 subjects with 19–94 images/subject. 2017 Access Link Cite University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
IIT Delhi Ear Database The database contains 471 images. The resolution of these images is 272 * 204 pixels. 2012 Access Link Cite IIT Delhi
UBEAR Dataset Contains over 4430 images of 126 subjects captured on-the-move in uncontrolled conditions with varying lighting and pose. 2011 Access Link Cite University of Beira Interior