This paper presents a dataset of agricultural pest images captured over five years by thousands of small holder farmers and farming extension workers across India. The dataset has been used to support a mobile application that relies on artificial intelligence to assist farmers with pest management decisions. Creation came from a mix of organized data collection, and from mobile application usage that was less controlled. This makes the dataset unique within the pest detection community, exhibiting a number of characteristics that place it closer to other non-agricultural objected detection datasets. This not only makes the dataset applicable to future pest management applications, it opens the door for a wide variety of other research agendas.

翻译：本文介绍了一个农业害虫图像数据集，该数据集由印度各地数千名小农户和农业推广工作者在五年间采集而成。该数据集已被用于支撑一款依靠人工智能辅助农民进行害虫管理决策的移动应用程序。数据集的创建结合了有组织的数据采集活动，以及来自移动应用程序使用过程中较不受控的数据收集。这使得该数据集在害虫检测领域具有独特性，展现出诸多特性使其更接近其他非农业目标检测数据集。这不仅使该数据集适用于未来的害虫管理应用，也为广泛的其他研究课题打开了大门。