Flower object detection dataset:
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This dataset contains 500 images of grassland vegetation patches with all visible flowers annotated using bounding boxes. 

The dataset is divided into a training set of 400 images and a test set of 100 images.  

All the objects in this dataset belong to a single 'flower' category with "category_id": 1.
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Date: 10/10/2022

Author: This data is part of the Digital Rural Landscape Lab project at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission. 

Data source: The dataset was created using image data collected through the 2018 LUCAS grassland module survey, coordinated by Eurostat. 
Images were taken as a part of the survey and later used to create this object detection dataset. Images were annotated manually using the CVAT tool. 

Data format: The data is set up according to the stadards of the COCO dataset format.

More detail can be found in the related publication (Elvekjaer et al., 2022).