Manually annotated and curated dataset of diverse weed species in maize and sorghum for computer vision

To generate a dataset consisting of high quality images that capture the initial growth dynamics of individual plants of several weed species, a greenhouse experiment was performed at the Moving Fields facility of the LfL in Freising, Germany. This experiment took place from 16.06.2021 - 13.12.2021. The plant species were selected as weed species common to fields of sorghum grown in Germany. A Scanalyzer 3D imaging cabin of the Moving Fields facility was used for generating high-quality images. In this cabin, one RGB camera (Basler piA2400-17gm) is mounted 2.8 m perpendicular above the conveyor band. This camera takes images with 2456 x 2058 pixels, which resulted in a ground sampling distance of ∼ 0.1735 mm per pixel.