diff --git a/scripts/downloadDatasets.sh b/scripts/downloadDatasets.sh
index 95f9a74..22fb149 100755
--- a/scripts/downloadDatasets.sh
+++ b/scripts/downloadDatasets.sh
@@ -102,3 +102,21 @@ if [ ! -d ../data/MEDS/img ]; then
   mv data/*/*.jpg ../data/MEDS/img
   rm -r data NIST_SD32_MEDS-II_face.zip
 fi
+
+#LFPW
+if [ ! -d ../data/lfpw/trainset ]; then
+  echo "Downloading LFPW..."
+  if hash curl 2>/dev/null; then
+    curl -OL http://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/media/uploads/competitions/lfpw.zip
+  else
+    wget  http://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/media/uploads/competitions/lfpw.zip
+  fi
+  
+  unzip lfpw.zip
+  mv lfpw ../data
+  cd ../data/lfpw
+  python ../../scripts/lfpwToSigset.py
+  cd ../../scripts
+  rm lfpw.zip
+fi
+
diff --git a/scripts/lfpwToSigset.py b/scripts/lfpwToSigset.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39e6fe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/lfpwToSigset.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# This scripts converts the LFPW .pts files into xml sigsets that can be readily 
+#   used within openbr. 
+
+from xml.dom.minidom import Document
+import glob
+import os
+
+for lfpwType in ['train','test']:
+    files = glob.glob('%sset/*.pts' % lfpwType)
+    files.sort()
+    cnt = 0
+    
+    xmlDoc = Document()
+    xmlRoot = xmlDoc.createElement('biometric-signature-set')
+    for ptsFile in files:
+        cnt += 1
+        ini = open(ptsFile)
+        lines = ini.readlines()
+        ini.close()
+
+        pntStrList = []
+        n = int(lines[1].split()[1])
+        for i in range(3,3+n):
+            pntStrList.append('(%s)' % (','.join(lines[i].split())))
+        pntStr = '[%s]' % ','.join(pntStrList)
+
+        xmlSubj = xmlDoc.createElement('biometric-signature')
+        xmlSubj.setAttribute('name','subj_%05d' % cnt) 
+        xmlPres = xmlDoc.createElement('presentation')
+        xmlPres.setAttribute('file-name','%sset/%s.png' % (lfpwType,os.path.splitext(ptsFile)[0]))
+        xmlPres.setAttribute('Points',pntStr)
+        xmlSubj.appendChild(xmlPres)
+        xmlRoot.appendChild(xmlSubj)
+    
+    if not os.path.exists('sigset'):
+        os.mkdir('sigset')
+    out = open('sigset/%s.xml' % lfpwType,'w')
+    print >> out, xmlRoot.toprettyxml()
+    out.close()
+
+