Datasets:

freddie
/

PokeShadowBench

language:
  - en
license: apache-2.0
multimodality:
  - image
tags:
  - pokemon
  - anime
  - game
  - entertainment
  - image-classification
  - who's-that-pokemon
task_categories:
  - image-classification
pretty_name: PokeShadowBench

PokeShadowBench

Dataset Description

Repository: PokeShadowBench
Point of Contact: Freddie Vargus

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains silhouette images from the "Who's That Pokémon?" segments from the Pokémon anime series. Each entry includes:

A silhouette image of a Pokémon
The Pokédex number and name of the Pokémon
The episode number and segment label from the anime

The dataset is focused on the Indigo League, and includes all Pokémon from the first 82 episodes.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("freddie/pokeshadowbench")

# Access images and metadata
test_dataset = dataset["test"]

# Get a specific Pokemon's images
bulbasaur = test_dataset.filter(lambda x: x["pokemon_name"] == "bulbasaur")

Dataset Structure

The dataset is organized in the following structure:

test/
├── bulbasaur/
│   └── 001-bulbasaur.png
├── ivysaur/
│   └── 002-ivysaur.png
...

Each Pokémon has its own directory containing its silhouette image, along with a metadata.jsonl file containing Pokémon information.

Data Fields

Each entry in metadata.jsonl contains:

file_name: Path to the image file
pokemon_name: Name of the Pokémon
dex_number: Pokédex number of the Pokémon

Supported Tasks

Image Classification: Identify Pokémon from their silhouettes
Pokémon Recognition: Match silhouettes with their corresponding Pokémon names and numbers

Source Data

The images are sourced from the "Who's That Pokémon?" segments in the Pokémon anime series. Each image is:

Screenshotted from the anime
Cropped to focus on the Pokémon
Named according to the format: XXX-name.png where:
- XXX is the Pokédex number
- name is the Pokémon name
Source: https://pocketmonsters.net/segments

Licensing Information

This dataset is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Citation Information

@misc{who-that-pokemon,
  author = {Freddie Vargus},
  title = {PokeShadowBench},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  journal = {Hugging Face Hub},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/freddie/pokeshadowbench}}
}