Da A Fu Evolution: Religious Archetype Facial Images and SSIM Code

Cropped facial images of religious prototypes and associated metadata used to study the evolution of Da A Fu folk icons. Created by Tiancheng Li and published via the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Dataverse in 2026, it includes the full SSIM analysis code and environment documentation required for replication.

Use Cases

• Replicating the structural derivation analysis of Da A Fu icons using the provided SSIM code
• Analyzing facial feature evolution in religious art using the cropped image set
• Training image similarity models on traditional folk icon archetypes

Strengths

• Includes full SSIM analysis code and environment documentation for reproducibility
• Expert-curated facial image crops specifically targeting religious prototypes
• Directly supports peer-reviewed research on folk icon structural derivation

Limitations

• Total record count and specific metadata schema are not disclosed
• Geographic and temporal scope of the source archetypes is not explicitly defined in the metadata summary

Provenance

Source

Tiancheng Li, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Dataverse

Collection Method

Curated from religious archetypes and folk icons for portraiture development research

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.