* **FFHQ (Flickr-Faces-HQ)** is a high-quality human face dataset created for evaluating GANs.
* Introduced in *“A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks”* by Karras, Laine, and Aila (NVIDIA).
* Contains **70,000** images at **1024×1024** resolution in PNG format.
* Provides **diverse variation** in age, ethnicity, backgrounds, and accessories (e.g., eyeglasses, sunglasses, hats).
* Images were **crawled from Flickr** using only permissively licensed photos.
* Faces were **automatically aligned and cropped** with dlib.
* **Automatic filtering** removed poor or irrelevant images.
* **Amazon Mechanical Turk** workers performed final cleaning to remove statues, paintings, or photos of photos.



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