AFRIFASHION1600: A Contemporary African Fashion Dataset for Computer Vision

Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Sharon Ibejih, Opeyemi Osakuade, Ifeoma Okoh, Mary Idera Salami

Abstract: This work presents AFRIFASHION1600, an openly accessible contemporary African fashion image dataset containing 1600 samples labelled into 8 classes representing some African fashion styles. Each sample is coloured and has an image size of 128 x 128. This is a niche dataset that aims to improve visibility, inclusion, and familiarity of African fashion in computer vision tasks.AFRIFASHION1600 dataset is available here(https://git.io/JOlxE)