datasets [data request] tiny-imagenet

Name of dataset: tiny-imagenet
URL of dataset: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/tiny-imagenet-200.zip
License of dataset: Not mentioned
Short description of dataset and use case(s): Tiny ImageNet Challenge is a similar challenge as ImageNet with a smaller dataset but with less image classes. It contains 200 image classes, a training dataset of 100, 000 images, a validation dataset of 10, 000 images, and a test dataset of 10, 000 images. All images are of size 64×64. It was created for CS231N course at Stanford.

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I have already implemented the support for this dataset. Please see here - https://github.com/ksachdeva/tiny-imagenet-tfds

I developed it as a standalone repository to test out the tensorflow_datasets framework for private datasets (and it does work .. thanks for the great work here). I have also published an article here that explains the motivations behind tensorflow_datasets and details on how one can use it for their own private dataset.

Link to the article on medium: https://towardsdatascience.com/a-unified-method-for-downloading-extracting-processing-using-datasets-7482a3b27aff

If you are okay adding the support for this dataset in the collection, I will send the pull requests (and mostly update the code) to be compliant with the contribution guides.