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Agricultural Computer Vision Dataset Survey

Agricultural plants
Example images from included datasets. From left to right: LucasVision [Yo23], GlobalWheatHeadDetection [Da21], PaddyDoctor [Pe23], and CottonWeedID15 [Ch23].

This repository contains a curated list of high-quality RGB image datasets for computer vision in agriculture, specifically focused on natural field scenes. The datasets were collected as part of our research paper "A Survey of Datasets for Computer Vision in Agriculture: A catalogue of high-quality RGB image datasets of natural field scenes" (Heider et al., 2025).

Citation

If you use this collection in your research, please cite our paper:

@article{heider2025survey,
  title={A Survey of Datasets for Computer Vision in Agriculture: A catalogue of high-quality RGB image datasets of natural field scenes},
  author={Heider, Nico and Gunreben, Lorenz and Z{\"u}rner, Sebastian and Schieck, Martin},
  journal={t.b.d.},
  publisher={t.b.d.},
  address={t.b.d.},
  year={2025}
}

Full citations for individual datasets can be found as bibtex bibliography "argiculture_dataset_survey.bib" in the repository and in the bibliography section of our paper.

Overview

We provide access information to 45 carefully selected datasets that meet the following criteria:

  • Domain coherence: Natural field scenes (plants on fields or pastures taken under natural light)
  • High-quality ground truth data with substantial annotations
  • Consistent image quality (resolution, minimal motion blur, adequate lighting)
  • Original datasets (no web-scraped or reused images)

The datasets cover various agricultural computer vision tasks:

  • Weed detection and classification (29 datasets)
  • Disease and pest detection (9 datasets)
  • Seedling and crop detection (6 datasets)
  • Plant growth stage detection
  • Phenotyping
  • Various detection and counting tasks

Contributing

We welcome contributions to this dataset collection! If you have a dataset that meets our criteria, please submit a pull request with the following information:

  • Dataset name and brief description
  • Task category
  • Image count and resolution
  • Annotation type and count
  • Access information
  • Citation details

Dataset Collection

Label Year Author Plant (English) Plant (Latin) Plant / Leaf / Fruit Task Annotation Public Comment Number of Images Paper-URL Dataset-URL
AmsinckiaInChickpeas [We24b] 2023 Plant, Brad Crops: Chickpeas; Weeds: Ansinckia Crops: Cicer arietinum; Weeds: Ansinckia Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 124 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/21675efe-9d25-4096-be76-3a541475efd4 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/21675efe-9d25-4096-be76-3a541475efd4
AnnualRyegrassAndTurnipweedInWheat [We24c] 2021 Coleman, Guy Crops: Wheat; Weeds: Annual Ryegrass, Turnipweed; Crops: Triticum aestivum; Weeds: Lolium rigidum, Rapistrum rugosum; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 27 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/5158bbe5-6030-48ad-8214-b68ff8118c22 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/5158bbe5-6030-48ad-8214-b68ff8118c22
ASDID [BSH22] 2022 Bevers, Noah; Sikora, Edward J.; Hardy, Nate B. Crops: Soybean; Crops: Glycine max; Leaf Disease Detection Image Classes Disease types and deficiencies like bacterial blight, Cercospora leaf blight, frogeye leaf spot, downy mildew, soybean rust, target spot, potassium deficiency, and healthy plants 9981 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169922007578 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.41ns1rnj3
BeanLeafDataset [Ma20] 2020 Makerere AI Lab Crops: Bean; Crops: Phaseolus; Leaf Disease Identification Image Classes Angular Leaf Spot and Bean Rust 1200+ https://github.com/AI-Lab-Makerere/ibean https://huggingface.co/datasets/AI-Lab-Makerere/beans
BroadleafWeedsInCommonCouch [We24d] 2022 Coleman, Guy Crops: Common Couch; Weeds: Broadleaf Weeds; Crops: Elymus repens.; Weeds: Conyza spp.; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 78 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/8b14a44b-bc7f-4b92-9bc0-224a2a2c4e22 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/8b14a44b-bc7f-4b92-9bc0-224a2a2c4e22
BrownlowHillFireweed [We24k] 2022 Coleman, Guy Crops: Pasture; Weeds: Fireweed; Crops: Various Poaceae; Weeds: Senecio madagascariensis; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 20 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/24b34712-c31b-4efc-9790-406d1f14d840 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/24b34712-c31b-4efc-9790-406d1f14d840
CobbityWheat [We24e] 2021 Coleman, Guy Crops: Wheat; Weeds: Wild radish, Turnipweed; Crops: Triticum aestivum; Weeds: Raphanus Raphanistrum, Rapistrum rugosum; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 39 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/3c363da3-6274-45e4-a0ce-b307cb0f89cc https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/3c363da3-6274-45e4-a0ce-b307cb0f89cc
CornLeafInfection [Ac20] 2020 Acharya, Ramkrishna. Crops: Maize; Crops: Zea mays; Leaf Disease Detection Bounding Boxes 2225 https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/qramkrishna/corn-leaf-infection-dataset https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/qramkrishna/corn-leaf-infection-dataset
CottonWeedDet3 [RLW23] 2023 Rahman, Abdur; Lu, Yuzhen; Wang, Haifeng Crops: Cotton; Weeds: Various; Crops: Gossypium; Weeds: Various; Leaf Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 848 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375522000910 https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/yuzhenlu/cottonweeddet3
CottonWeedID15 [Ch23] 2023 Chen et al. Crops: Cotton; Weeds: Morningglory, Carpetweed, Palmer amaranth, Waterhemp, Purslane, Nutsedge, Eclipta, Spotted spurge, Sicklepod, Goosegrass, Prickly sida, Ragweed, Crabgrass, Swinecress, Spurred anoda; Crops: Gossypium; Weeds: Mollugo verticillata, Amaranthus palmeri, Amaranthus tuberculatus, Portulaca oleracea, Cyperus spp., Eclipta prostrata, Euphorbia maculata, Senna obtusifolia, Eleusine indica, Sida spinosa, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Digitaria spp., Coronopus didymus, Anoda cristata; Leaf Weed Identification Image Classes 5187 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168169922004082?via%3Dihub https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/yuzhenlu/cottonweedid15
DeepSeedling [Ji19] 2019 Jian et al. Crops: Cotton; Weeds: Dicotyledonous, Monocotyledonous, Various; Crops: Gossypium hirsutum; Weeds: Dicotyledonous, Monocotyledonous, Various; Seedlings Seedling Detection, Seedling Counting Bounding Boxes 5610 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0528-3 https://figshare.com/s/616956f8633c17ceae9b
DeepWeeds [Ol19] 2019 Olsen et al. Weeds: Chinee apple, Snake weed, Lantana, Prickly acacia, Siam weed, Parthenium, Rubber vine, Parkinsonia; Weeds: Ziziphus mauritiana, Stachytarpheta spp., Lantana camara, Vachellia nilotica, Chromolaena odorata, Parthenium hysterophorus, Cryptostegia grandiflora, Parkinsonia aculeata; Leaf Weed Detection Image Classes 17509 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38343-3 https://github.com/AlexOlsen/DeepWeeds
DPA [RRG20] 2020 Riehle, Daniel; Reiser, David; Griepentrog, Hans W. Crops: Maize, Sugar beet; Crops: Zea mays, Beta vulgaris; Leaf, Fruit, Whole plant Plant Classification Segmentation Masks 200 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169919314346 https://github.com/hohenheimdr/DPA
EarlyCropWeed [Es20] 2020 Espejo-Garcia et al. Crops: Tomato, Cotton; Weeds: Black nightshade, Velvetleaf; Crops: Solanum lycopersicum, Gossypium hirsutum; Weeds: Solanum nigrum, Abutilon theophrasti; Leaf Weed Detection Image Classes 504 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169919319854 https://github.com/AUAgroup/early-crop-weed
GlobalWheatHeadDetection [Da21] 2021 David et al. Crops: Wheat; Crops: Triticum aestivum; Fruit, Wheat Head Plant Detection Bounding Boxes 6422 https://openreview.net/forum?id=fEoYkscKoS https://zenodo.org/records/5092309
ImageWeeds [Ra23c] 2023 Rai et al. Weeds: Kochia, Common ragweed, Horseweed, Redroot pigweed, Waterhemp; Weeds: Bassia scoparia, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Erigeron canadensis, Amaranthus retroflexus, Amaranthus tuberculatus; Whole plant Weed Identification Bounding Boxes 3975 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923007709 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/8kjcztbjz2/2
LucasVision [Yo23] 2023 Yordanov et al. Crops: Common wheat, Durum wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Maize, Potatoes, Sugar beet, Sunflower, Rape/Turnip rape, Soybeans, Temporary grassland; Crops: Triticum aestivum, Triticum durum, Hordeum vulgare, Secale cereale, Avena sativa, Zea mays, Solanum tuberosum, Beta vulgaris, Helianthus annuus, Brassica napus, Glycine max; Ground cover crops Plant Identification Image Classes 15,876 high-quality labeled images 16946 https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04994v1 https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/DRLL/LUCASvision/
MaizeDiseaseSymptoms [Wi18] 2018 Wiesner-Hanks et al. Crops: Maize; Crops: Zea mays; Leaf Disease Detection Other (Polyline) Lesion annotations (number of lesions marked with lines) 18222 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3548-6 https://osf.io/p67rz/?view_only=
MaizeWeedDataset [Ol22] 2022 Olaniyi et al. Crops: Maize; Weeds: Various; Crops: Zea mays; Weeds: various; Whole plant Weed Detection, Plant Identification, Weed Identification Bounding Boxes 500 labeled images, 36,874 total images (18,187 from the dry season, 18,187 from the wet season, and 500 annotated images) 500 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/jjbfcckrsp/1 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/jjbfcckrsp/1
MFWD [Ge24] 2024 Genze et al. Crops: Maize, Sorghum; Weeds: Various; Crops: Sorghum bicolor, Zea mays; Whole plant Weed Detection Image Classes, Bounding Boxes, Segmentation Masks 94321 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10805845/ https://github.com/grimmlab/MFWD
NarrabriChickpea [We24f] 2021 Coleman, Guy Crops: Chickpeas; Weeds: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Rigid Ryegrass, Non-grass species, Grasses; Crops: Cicer arietinum; Weeds: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Lolium Rigidum, Non-Poaceae, Poaceae; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 31 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/839a5f35-9c7b-4df3-92f4-d0fc15120920 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/839a5f35-9c7b-4df3-92f4-d0fc15120920
NarrabriWheat [We24a] 2021 Coleman, Guy Crops: Wheat; Weeds: Annual Ryegrass, Turnipweed, Common Sowthistle; Crops: Triticum aestivum; Weeds: Lolium rigidum, Rapistrum rugosum, Sonchus oleraceu; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 184 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/dc322d80-be00-49cf-822c-9e9b40e37425 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/dc322d80-be00-49cf-822c-9e9b40e37425
NorthernWAWheatbeltBlueLupins [We24g] 2021 Quinlan et al. Crops: Lupins; Weeds: Sandplain lupin; Crops: Lupinus spp.; Weeds: Lupinus cosentinii; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 217 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/9df290f4-a29b-44b2-9de6-24bca1cee846 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/9df290f4-a29b-44b2-9de6-24bca1cee846
OpenWeedPhenotype [Ma20] 2020 Leminen Madsen et al. Weeds: Blackgrass, Scarlet pimpernel, Fat-hen, Common chickweed, Various; Weeds: Alopecurus myosuroides, Anagallis arvensis, Chenopodium album, Stellaria media; Leaf Weed Detection, Weed Identification Bounding Boxes, Image Classes 7590 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/8/1246 https://vision.eng.au.dk/open-plant-phenotyping-database/
PaddyDoctor [Pe23] 2023 Petchiammal et al. Crops: Rice; Crops: Oryza sativa; Leaf Disease Classification Image Classes 12 Different Diseases, More Images at,: https://paddydoc.github.io/ 10407 http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11108 https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/paddy-disease-classification/data
PalmerAmaranthGrowth [We24m] 2023 Coleman et al. Crops: Cotton; Weeds: Palmer amaranth; Crops: Gossypium spp.; Weeds: Amaranthus palmeri; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 614 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/5c78d067-8750-4803-9cbe-57df8fae55e4 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/5c78d067-8750-4803-9cbe-57df8fae55e4
PhenoBench [We24] 2024 Weyler et al. Crops: Sugar beet; Weeds: Various; Crops: Beta vulgaris; Weeds: Chenopodium album, Polygonum aviculare; Leaf, Whole plant Plant Identification, Weed Detection Segmentation Masks 71,264 leaf instances labeled 2179 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10572312 https://www.phenobench.org/dataset.html
PlantSeedlingClassification [Gi17] 2017 Giselsson et al. Crops: Maize, Common wheat, Sugar beet; Weeds: Various; Crops: Zea mays, Triticum aestivum, Beta vulgaris; Weeds: Various; Seedlings Seedling Classification Image Classes 960 different plants n.a. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05458v1 https://vision.eng.au.dk/plant-seedlings-dataset/
PumkinDiseases [RBH24] 2024 Rashid, Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad; Biswas, Joy; Hossain, Md Miskat Crops: Pumpkin; Crops: Cucurbita; Leaf Disease Identification Image Classes 2000 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/wtxcw8wpxb/1 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/wtxcw8wpxb/1
RadishWheatDataset [We24j] 2022 Rayner, Gilbert Crops: Wheat; Weeds: Wild radish; Crops: Triticum aestivum; Weeds: Raphanus raphanistrum; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 552 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/8b8f134f-ede4-4792-b1f7-d38fc05d8127 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/8b8f134f-ede4-4792-b1f7-d38fc05d8127
RiceLeafDiseases [An23] 2023 Antony, Lourdu; Prasanth, Leo Crops: Rice; Crops: Oryza sativa; Leaf Disease Detection Image Classes Diseases: Bacterialblight, Brownspot, Leafsmut 4684 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwtn3c6w6p/1 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwtn3c6w6p/1
RicePanicles [Ra23b] 2023 Rashid et al. Crops: Rice; Crops: Oryza sativa; Panicle, Fruit Panicle Detection Bounding Boxes 5701 images after data augmentation. 2193 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923008399#fig0001 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/ndb6t28xbk/4
RoboWeedMap [TJG22] 2022 Teimouri, Nima; Jørgensen, Rasmus Nyholm; Green, Ole; Crops: Barley; Weeds: Grasses, Mustard family; Crops: Hordeum vulgare; Weeds: Poaceae, Brassicaceae; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 1147 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/5/1167 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/aa0cb351-9b5a-400f-bb2e-ed02b2da3699
RumexLeaves [GAN23] 2023 Güldenring, Ronja; Andersen, Rasmus Eckholdt; Nalpantidis, Lazaros Weeds: Broad-leaved dock; Weeds: Rumex obtusifolius; Leaf Plant Detection, Leaf Strcture Analysis Segmentation Mask, Bounding Boxes, Other (Polyline) 809 https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08805v1 https://dtu-pas.github.io/RumexLeaves/
RyegrassSeedlings [We24l] 2022 Leon, Lorenzo Crops: None (Fallow); Weeds: Ryegrass; Crops: None (Fallow); Weeds: Lolium Perenne; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 14 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/c828f20d-9b3b-451a-b1a3-eb35398760da https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/c828f20d-9b3b-451a-b1a3-eb35398760da
SorghumAphids [Ra24] 2024 Rahman et al. Crops: Sorghum; Insects: Aphids; Crops: Sorghum bicolor; Leaf Pest Detection Segmentation Masks Insects: Aphidoidea; 54742 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04305v1 https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/N3YJXG
SoybeanNet [Li24] 2024 Li et al. Crops: Soybean; Crops: Glycine max; Panicle, Fruit Bean Counting Segmentation Masks, Other (Points) 262,611 (!) manually annotated soybean pods 196 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169924002527 https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/jiajiali/uav-based-soybean-pod-images/data
SoyNet [Ra23a] 2023 Rajput et al. Crops: Soybean; Crops: Glycine max; Leaf Disease Detection Image Classes 4500+ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340923005474 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/w2r855hpx8/1
SugarcanePlantCounting [UJ24] 2024 Ubaid, Muhammad Talha; Javaid, Sameena Crops: Sugarcane; Crops: Saccharum officinarum; Cane, Fruit Plant Counting Bounding Boxes 3730 https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/10/5/102 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/m5zxyznvgz/1 , https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/ydr8vgg64w/1
TobaccoAerialDataset [Mo23] 2023 Moazzam, Imran Crops: Tobacco; Weeds: Various; Crops: Nicotiana tabacum; Weeds: Various; Whole plant Weed Detection Semantic Masks 1870 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/5dpc5gbgpz/2 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/5dpc5gbgpz/1
WE3DS [Ki23] 2023 Kitzler et al. Crops: Broad bean, Pea, Corn, Soybean, Sunflower, Sugar beet; Weeds: Corn spurry, Red-root amaranth, Common buckwheat, Red fingergrass, Common wild oat, Cornflower, Milk thistle, Rye brome, Narrow-leaved plantain, Small-flower geranium; Crops: Vicia faba, Pisum sativum, Zea mays, Glycine max, Helianthus annuus, Beta vulgaris; Weeds: Spergula arvensis, Amaranthus retroflexus, Fagopyrum esculentum, Digitaria sanguinalis, Avena fatua, Centaurea cyanus, Silybum marianum, Bromus secalinus, Plantago lanceolata, Geranium pusillum; Leaf, Whole plant Weed Detection, Weed Identification, Crop Identification Semantic Masks RGB-D Images 2568 https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6873cb53-b2e2-34e7-8b49-5d36b1c51fbe/ https://zenodo.org/records/7457983
WeedGrowthState [Te18] 2018 Teimouri et al. Weeds: Knotgrass, Blackgrass, Fat-hen, Various; Weeds: Alopecurus myosuroides, Chenopodium album, Polygonum spp., Various; Leaf Weed Growth Estimation, Leaf Counting Image Classes Classification into 9 growth stages (1-8 leaves and >8 leaves) 12165 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/5/1580 https://vision.eng.au.dk/leaf-counting-dataset/
WildCarrotFlowersInCanola [We24h] 2021 Leon, Lorenzo Crops: Canola; Weeds: Wild carrot; Crops: Brassica napus; Weeds: Daucus carota; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 52 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/c4a80379-afda-4972-b274-82a544addd0d https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/c4a80379-afda-4972-b274-82a544addd0d
WildRadishInWheat [We24i] 2021 Coleman, Guy Crops: Wheat; Weeds: Wild radish; Crops: Triticum aestivum; Weeds: Raphanus raphanistrum; Whole plant Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 41 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/09af32ad-2e9e-4f7c-ae08-55374824ee15 https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/09af32ad-2e9e-4f7c-ae08-55374824ee15
YOLOWeeds [Da23] 2023 Dang et al. Weeds: Waterhemp, Morningglory, Purslane, Spotted Spurge, Carpetweed, Ragweed, Eclipta, Prickly Sida, Palmer Amaranth, Sicklepod, Goosegrass, Cutleaf Groundcherry; Weeds: Amaranthus tuberculatus, Ipomoea spp., Portulaca oleracea, Euphorbia maculata, Mollugo verticillata, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Eclipta prostrata, Sida spinosa, Amaranthus palmeri, Senna obtusifolia, Eleusine indica, Physalis angulata; Leaf Weed Detection Bounding Boxes 5648 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169923000431 https://zenodo.org/records/7535814 , https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/datasets/2c14915b-0827-4b65-9908-d2a6df0d48f3

Acknowledgements

This work and the Rubin Feldschwarm® ÖkoSystem project are funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (grant no. 03RU2U051F, 03RU2U053C).

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