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# Fashion MNIST

The Fashion-MNIST database of Zalando’s fashion article images.

The dataset consists of 70,000 28 x 28 grayscale images in 10 classes.
There are 60,000 training images and 10,000 test images.

**Details**

- Dataset name: `fashion-mnist`
- Dataset source: [https://github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist](https://github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist)
- Dataset license: MIT
- Dataset size: 36.42 MB
- Tags: `image, classification`
- Supported splits: `train, test`
- ZooDataset classes:
  - [`FashionMNISTDataset`](../../api/fiftyone.zoo.datasets.tf.md#fiftyone.zoo.datasets.tf.FashionMNISTDataset) (TF backend)
  - [`FashionMNISTDataset`](../../api/fiftyone.zoo.datasets.torch.md#fiftyone.zoo.datasets.torch.FashionMNISTDataset) (Torch backend)

#### NOTE
You must have the
[Torch or TensorFlow backend(s)](../api.md#dataset-zoo-ml-backend) installed to
load this dataset.

**Example usage**

Python

CLI

```python
import fiftyone as fo
import fiftyone.zoo as foz

dataset = foz.load_zoo_dataset("fashion-mnist", split="test")

session = fo.launch_app(dataset)
```

```shell
fiftyone zoo datasets load fashion-mnist --split test

fiftyone app launch fashion-mnist-test
```

![fashion-mnist-test](images/dataset_zoo/fashion-mnist-test.png)
