diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py
index c7afbe1136..d3ba2dabf0 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
-from collections import defaultdict
+from collections import Counter, defaultdict
 from typing import Any
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -16,12 +16,45 @@
     ImagelogRegClassificationEvaluator,
 )
 from ..AbsTask import AbsTask, ScoresDict
+from ..TaskMetadata import DescriptiveStatistics
 
 ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+class ImageClassificationDescriptiveStatistics(DescriptiveStatistics):
+    """Descriptive statistics for ImageClassification
+
+    Attributes:
+        num_samples: number of samples in the dataset.
+
+        min_image_width: Minimum width of images
+        average_image_width: Average width of images
+        max_image_width: Maximum width of images
+
+        min_image_height: Minimum height of images
+        average_image_height: Average height of images
+        max_image_height: Maximum height of images
+
+        unique_labels: Number of unique labels
+        labels: dict of label frequencies
+    """
+
+    num_samples: int
+
+    min_image_width: float
+    average_image_width: float
+    max_image_width: float
+
+    min_image_height: float
+    average_image_height: float
+    max_image_height: float
+
+    unique_num_labels: int
+    labels: dict[str, dict[str, int]]
+
+
 class AbsTaskImageClassification(AbsTask):
     """Abstract class for kNN classification tasks
     The similarity is computed between pairs and the results are ranked.
@@ -73,8 +106,43 @@ def _add_main_score(self, scores: dict[HFSubset, ScoresDict]) -> None:
 
     def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
         self, split: str, hf_subset: str | None = None, compute_overall: bool = False
-    ):
-        pass
+    ) -> ImageClassificationDescriptiveStatistics:
+        if hf_subset:
+            imgs = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name]
+            labels = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name]
+        elif compute_overall:
+            imgs = []
+            labels = []
+            for hf_subset in self.metadata.eval_langs:
+                imgs.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name])
+                labels.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name])
+        else:
+            imgs = self.dataset[split][self.image_column_name]
+            labels = self.dataset[split][self.label_column_name]
+
+        num_samples = len(labels)
+        unique_num_labels = len(set(labels))
+        label_count = Counter(labels)
+
+        img_widths, img_heights = [], []
+        for img in imgs:
+            width, height = img.size
+            img_heights.append(height)
+            img_widths.append(width)
+
+        return ImageClassificationDescriptiveStatistics(
+            num_samples=num_samples,
+            unique_num_labels=unique_num_labels,
+            min_image_width=min(img_widths),
+            average_image_width=sum(img_widths) / len(img_widths),
+            max_image_width=max(img_widths),
+            min_image_height=min(img_heights),
+            average_image_height=sum(img_heights) / len(img_heights),
+            max_image_height=max(img_heights),
+            labels={
+                str(label): {"count": count} for label, count in label_count.items()
+            },
+        )
 
     def evaluate(
         self,
diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/TaskMetadata.py b/mteb/abstasks/TaskMetadata.py
index 24b3c9fa23..db28dc1915 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/TaskMetadata.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/TaskMetadata.py
@@ -100,7 +100,20 @@
     "rendered",
     "multiple",
 ]
-TASK_TYPE = Literal[
+
+MIEB_TASK_TYPE = (
+    "Any2AnyMultiChoice",
+    "Any2AnyRetrieval",
+    "Any2TextMutipleChoice",
+    "ImageClustering",
+    "ImageClassification",
+    "ImageMultilabelClassification",
+    "ImageTextPairClassification",
+    "VisualSTS",
+    "ZeroShotClassification",
+)
+
+TASK_TYPE = (
     "BitextMining",
     "Classification",
     "MultilabelClassification",
@@ -112,16 +125,9 @@
     "Summarization",
     "InstructionRetrieval",
     "Speed",
-    "Any2AnyMultiChoice",
-    "Any2AnyRetrieval",
-    "Any2TextMutipleChoice",
-    "ImageClustering",
-    "ImageClassification",
-    "ImageMultilabelClassification",
-    "ImageTextPairClassification",
-    "VisualSTS",
-    "ZeroShotClassification",
-]
+) + MIEB_TASK_TYPE
+
+TASK_TYPE = Literal[TASK_TYPE]
 
 
 TASK_CATEGORY = Literal[
@@ -455,9 +461,11 @@ def descriptive_stats(self) -> dict[str, DescriptiveStatistics] | None:
     def descriptive_stat_path(self) -> Path:
         """Return the path to the descriptive statistics file."""
         descriptive_stat_base_dir = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "descriptive_stats"
+        if self.type in MIEB_TASK_TYPE:
+            descriptive_stat_base_dir = descriptive_stat_base_dir / "Image"
+        task_type_dir = descriptive_stat_base_dir / self.type
         if not descriptive_stat_base_dir.exists():
             descriptive_stat_base_dir.mkdir()
-        task_type_dir = descriptive_stat_base_dir / self.type
         if not task_type_dir.exists():
             task_type_dir.mkdir()
         return task_type_dir / f"{self.name}.json"
diff --git a/mteb/descriptive_stats/Image/ImageClassification/MNIST.json b/mteb/descriptive_stats/Image/ImageClassification/MNIST.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c028ae135d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mteb/descriptive_stats/Image/ImageClassification/MNIST.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+    "test": {
+        "num_samples": 10000,
+        "unique_num_labels": 10,
+        "min_image_width": 28,
+        "average_image_width": 28.0,
+        "max_image_width": 28,
+        "min_image_height": 28,
+        "average_image_height": 28.0,
+        "max_image_height": 28,
+        "labels": {
+            "7": {
+                "count": 1028
+            },
+            "2": {
+                "count": 1032
+            },
+            "1": {
+                "count": 1135
+            },
+            "0": {
+                "count": 980
+            },
+            "4": {
+                "count": 982
+            },
+            "9": {
+                "count": 1009
+            },
+            "5": {
+                "count": 892
+            },
+            "6": {
+                "count": 958
+            },
+            "3": {
+                "count": 1010
+            },
+            "8": {
+                "count": 974
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
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