Social Media Mask Dataset

The Social Media Mask Dataset is a dataset made up of Twitter Images intended for the training of Convolutional Neural Networks to detect masks in images and video. In this case, the term masks refer to a device worn on the face intended to reduce the spread of respiratory illness. Due to Twitter's TOS, we cannot directly publish Twitter images. Instead, we publish Tweet keys along with information our script uses to download the target image. The file training.json is our suggested training set while testing.json is our suggested test set. Our script download_dataset.py can be used to download the full dataset with a Twitter developer account.