A labeled image dataset of common tomato diseases for classification and object detection.

Abstract

Computer vision has emerged as a critical enabler of sustainable production in protected agriculture by offering efficient and non-invasive crop disease diagnosis. The development of accurate disease recognition models relies heavily on the availability of high-quality image datasets. This study introduces a tomato disease image dataset collected in 2024 from greenhouse facilities within a modern agricultural park in Sichuan Province, China. The dataset comprises 1026 high-resolution images, including 417 images of viral disease, 82 images of gray mold, and 527 images of bacterial wilt, totaling approximately 2.78 GB. Captured under real-world greenhouse conditions and from multiple angles and distances, the images effectively capture multi-scale phenotypic disease features. Manual annotation was conducted using the LabelImg tool under the guidance of plant pathology experts, with labeled regions covering leaves, fruits, and stems. Annotation files are stored in XML format, each corresponding to a specific image. This dataset is well-suited for research in disease classification, object detection, and phenotyping, and supports deep learning model training and cross-crop transfer learning applications.

Plant phenotyping relevance

トマト病害の症状を画像で捉え、分類・検出モデル用に専門家アノテーションした再利用可能なデータセットであり、植物病害状態の表現型取得が中心である。

Code and data availability

The paper is a Data in Brief article describing a public tomato disease image dataset (1026 annotated images) deposited on Mendeley Data with a direct URL and DOI, matching an allowed URL exactly.