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Organs
How a dataset of living forms is made before a model learns from it
01Realms
Organs are collected in five realms, named for what they are made of or what they stand for. Choose a realm to limit the specimen slider to it, or pick any tile.
02Specimen
Left and right arrow keys move one specimen. Page up and down move ten.
03Numbers
04Process
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Collect
Images come from open sources: Wikimedia Commons, iNaturalist and the Wellcome Collection. Each one keeps its author, license and link.
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Cut out
A segmentation model removes the background. One click can pick an organ out of a jar or a dish. The organ is placed on a single neutral ground.
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Mask
The outline becomes a map with one class: animal, plant, fungal, metaphor or scifi. This is the only thing the model will be given.
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Review
Automatic checks drop frames where the subject is tiny, cropped or split in pieces. A person keeps or rejects what is left.
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Learn
Planned, not done: a small mask-to-image network that answers a painted region with a specimen.
05Credits
Every image belongs to its author and is shown under the license named beside it. The cutouts are adaptations: the background was removed, and the image was cropped and resized. Images under non-commercial licenses are in the dataset but are not shown here. The exact license version is on each source page.