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African Masks
The African Masks dataset is curated as a set of images depicting historic mask desings from various parts of Africa. It is intended as an interesting addition to datasets that explore the intersection of Art and AI.
GANerated Mask Images
The Dataset
Images below are generated by a DCGAN trained on the Africa Mask dataset. Click on an image to view most similar images from the dataset.
Block5_pool
Block1_pool
> Did the GAN generate novel samples?
The images on the right show the (top 24) most content similar images in the dataset to the generated image (on the left). Similarity is measured by comparing the cosine distance of features extracted (using a VGG16 network ) from the generated image and images in the dataset. Features are extracted from an early layer in the VGG16 network (block1_pool) and a later layer (block5_pool) .
Copyright for all images remain the rights of the respective owners. Any and all images used in this project are only intended for academic/pedagogical purposes. Effort is currently being made to explore the right way to make the entire dataset available.
Current version contains 9300 manually curated images. Below is a sample of 200 images from the dataset.

Generating Larger images [128px by 128px]
A larger DCGAN is trained to generate 128 by 128 sized output.






Project Description
The Coco Africa project is geared towards creating an easy to use data collection tool to support the curation of interesting datasets (current focus on under-represented objects and contexts in Africa).

This is work in progress, feedback is most welcome!