adi2606/Anime_Characters

📚 Dataset Summary

This dataset features 1,941 anime character images, neatly organized into 322 folders, each representing a different anime series 🎌.

• 📦 Size of downloaded files: 152 MB
• 🪄 Size of auto-converted Parquet files: 151 MB
• 📊 Split: Train only
• 🎭 Classes: 322 unique anime titles

Perfect for image classification, anime recommendation systems, and visual style analysis! 🎨✨

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🏆 Supported Tasks

• 🖼️ Image Classification: Predict the anime title based on a character image.
• 🔍 Visual Similarity Retrieval: Find visually similar anime styles.
• 🛠️ Model Fine-tuning: Customize vision models (ViT, ConvNeXt, etc.) for anime domains.

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🗂️ Dataset Structure

📁 Directory Layout

Anime_Characters/
  ├── dataset/
  │    ├── .hack__G.U. Returner/
  │    │    ├── Haseo.png
  │    │    ├── Ovan.png ...
  │    ├── Air Gear/
  │    │    ├── Onigiri.png ...
  │    ├── Bleach/
  │    │    ├── Ichigo Kurosaki.png ...
  │    └── (other anime folders...)
  ├── anime_characters_dataset.json
  ├── .gitignore
  └── README.md

Each folder inside dataset/ represents an anime class, and contains images of characters from that anime. 📸

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📝 Metadata (anime_characters_dataset.json)

The file anime_characters_dataset.json contains a list of all images and their associated labels.

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🔢 Data Fields

• image_path ➡️ Path to the character image.
• label ➡️ Anime series title (class label).

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📊 Data Splits

Split	Number of Images
Train	1,941

🔔 Note: No official validation/test split is provided — users can create their own!

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🚀 Usage Example

import json

# Load the metadata
with open('anime_characters_dataset.json', 'r') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

# Example usage
print(data[0])

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⚖️ Licensing

⚠️ Important:
This dataset may include content protected by copyright.

It is intended strictly for educational, research, or non-commercial use under fair use laws.
Always verify before commercial usage! 📜

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📌 Additional Notes

• The dataset includes raw images and JSON metadata.
• Images have been auto-converted to Parquet format for Hugging Face Dataset Viewer.
• 📂 Anime_Characters:
  • dataset/
  • anime_characters_dataset.json
  • .gitignore
  • README.md

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