AffectHuman-43K Research-Only License

Copyright (c) 2026 Jamuna S. Murthy

AffectHuman-43K is released for non-commercial academic research, benchmarking, and evaluation purposes only.

By accessing, downloading, or using this dataset, you agree to the following terms.

1. Permitted Uses

You may use AffectHuman-43K for:

- academic research;
- non-commercial benchmarking;
- non-commercial model evaluation;
- controlled affective generation research;
- multimodal emotion alignment research;
- identity-preservation evaluation in research settings.

2. Prohibited Uses

You may not use AffectHuman-43K for:

- commercial products, services, or deployments;
- biometric identification or face-recognition deployment;
- surveillance, tracking, profiling, or identity matching;
- emotion inference or decision-making about real individuals in high-stakes settings;
- generating deceptive, defamatory, harmful, or non-consensual synthetic media;
- impersonation or identity misuse;
- harassment, abuse, or targeted manipulation;
- training or deploying systems intended for deepfake misuse;
- attempting to identify, re-identify, contact, or locate any individual represented in the dataset;
- redistributing, sublicensing, selling, publicly mirroring, or publicly rehosting the raw dataset files.

3. Redistribution

Redistribution of the raw dataset files is not permitted.

You may share derived research results, aggregate statistics, trained model evaluations, and academic publications, provided that they do not expose raw dataset files, private identity information, or data that enables re-identification.

4. Attribution

Any publication, report, model card, dataset card, or software using AffectHuman-43K must cite the dataset:

AffectHuman-43K: An Emotion-Aligned Multimodal Benchmark for Controllable Human Affect Generation.

5. Upstream Data Compliance

Users are responsible for complying with the licenses, terms, and usage restrictions of any upstream datasets, models, or source materials used in conjunction with AffectHuman-43K.

This license does not grant rights beyond those permitted by applicable upstream data licenses.

6. No Warranty

The dataset is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind. The authors make no guarantees regarding accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or legal suitability for any specific use.

7. Access Control

Access to AffectHuman-43K may be gated. Access may be denied, revoked, or restricted at any time if the dataset maintainers determine that the user has violated these terms or presents a misuse risk.

8. Contact

For questions about access, usage, citation, or licensing, contact the dataset maintainers through the official Hugging Face dataset page.