{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/imagifilter-a-resource-to-enable-the-semi","title":"ImagiFilter: A resource to enable the semi-automatic mining of images at scale","arxiv_id":"2008.09152","date":"2020-08-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Houda Alberts","Iacer Calixto"],"abstract":"Datasets (semi-)automatically collected from the web can easily scale to millions of entries, but a dataset's usefulness is directly related to how clean and high-quality its examples are. In this paper, we describe and publicly release an image dataset along with pretrained models designed to (semi-)automatically filter out undesirable images from very large image collections, possibly obtained from the web. Our dataset focusses on photographic and/or natural images, a very common use-case in computer vision research. We provide annotations for coarse prediction, i.e. photographic vs. non-photographic, and smaller fine-grained prediction tasks where we further break down the non-photographic class into five classes: maps, drawings, graphs, icons, and sketches. Results on held out validation data show that a model architecture with reduced memory footprint achieves over 96% accuracy on coarse-prediction. Our best model achieves 88% accuracy on the hardest fine-grained classification task available. Dataset and pretrained models are available at: https://github.com/houda96/imagi-filter.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09152v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.09152v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"imagifilter-a-resource-to-enable-the-semi","repo_url":"https://github.com/houda96/imagi-filter","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"prediction","task_name":"Prediction"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"imagifilter","name":"ImagiFilter","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}