Introduction

Based on Kaggle Plant Seedlings Classification

Description

Can you differentiate a weed from a crop seedling?

Classify an image of seedling into one the following 12 different seedling classes.

1. Black-grass
2. Charlock
3. Cleavers
4. Common Chickweed
5. Common wheat
6. Fat Hen
7. Loose Silky-bent
8. Maize
9. Scentless Mayweed
10. Shepherds Purse
11. Small-flowered Cranesbill
12. Sugar beet

The ability to do so effectively can mean better crop yields and better stewardship of the environment.

The Aarhus University Signal Processing group, in collaboration with University of Southern Denmark, has recently released a dataset containing images of approximately 960 unique plants belonging to 12 species at several growth stages.

We're hosting this dataset as a Kaggle competition in order to give it wider exposure, to give the community an opportunity to experiment with different image recognition techniques, as well to provide a place to cross-pollenate ideas.

Citation

A Public Image Database for Benchmark of Plant Seedling Classification Algorithms