diff --git a/xbob/db/replay/query.py b/xbob/db/replay/query.py
index 94f55899272610bd86901e6411de5b341e7a3fd2..e650ec35aeb6ed7bc5fa224c63b3f6a555c10d1f 100644
--- a/xbob/db/replay/query.py
+++ b/xbob/db/replay/query.py
@@ -155,6 +155,53 @@ class Database(object):
 
     return retval
 
+
+  def faces(self, filenames, directory=None):
+    """Queries the files containing the face locations for the frames in the videos specified by the input parameter filenames
+
+    Keyword parameters:
+ 
+    filenames
+      The filenames of the videos. This object should be a python iterable (such as a tuple or list).
+
+    directory 
+      A directory name that will be prepended to the final filepaths returned. The face locations files should be located in this directory
+
+    Returns: 
+      A list of filenames with face locations. The face location files contain the following information, tab delimited: 
+
+      * Frame number
+      * Bounding box top-left X coordinate 
+      * Bounding box top-left Y coordinate 
+      * Bounding box width 
+      * Bounding box height
+      
+      There is one row for each frame, and not all the frames contain detected faces
+    """
+    if directory: return [os.path.join(directory, stem + '.faces') for stem in filenames]
+    return [stem + '.faces' for stem in filenames]
+
+    
+  def faces_ids(self, ids, directory=None):
+    """Queries the files containing the face locations for the frames in the videos specified by the input parameter ids
+
+    Keyword parameters:
+ 
+    ids
+      The ids of the objects in the database table "file". This object should be a python iterable (such as a tuple or list).
+
+    directory 
+      A directory name that will be prepended to the final filepath returned. The face locations files should be located in this directory
+
+    Returns: 
+      A list of filenames with face locations. For description on the face locations file format, see the documentation for faces()
+    """
+    if not directory:
+      directory = ''
+    facespaths = self.paths(ids, prefix=directory, suffix='.faces')
+    return facespaths
+
+
   def protocols(self):
     """Returns the names of all registered protocols"""
 
diff --git a/xbob/db/replay/test.py b/xbob/db/replay/test.py
index 5dd6b6eab916330d73a75b8524de7c26de106b0a..ad131898f901149eb40381fe6331af23c9c7bab5 100644
--- a/xbob/db/replay/test.py
+++ b/xbob/db/replay/test.py
@@ -127,3 +127,12 @@ class ReplayDatabaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
     from bob.db.script.dbmanage import main
 
     self.assertEqual(main('replay checkfiles --self-test'.split()), 0)
+
+  def test13_queryfacefile(self):
+
+    db = Database()
+    self.assertEqual(db.faces(('foo',), directory = 'dir')[0], 'dir/foo.faces',)
+
+  def test14_queryfacefile_key(self):
+    db = Database()
+    self.assertEqual(db.faces_ids(ids=(1,), directory='dir'), db.paths(ids=(1,), prefix='dir', suffix='.faces'))