USU-Corn-WeedDB: A UAV RGB Image Dataset for Multi-Species Weed Detection in Forage Corn
Weed pressure in forage corn production causes yield losses of up to 31.5%, yet site-specific weed management (SSWM) systems built on UAV imagery and deep learning remain constrained by the scarcity of field-representative training datasets. We present USU-Corn-WeedDB, a publicly available UAV RGB image dataset collected from a commercial forage corn field in Cache Valley, Utah, designed to support multi-class weed detection under both supervised and semi-supervised learning frameworks. RGB imagery was acquired on 27 June 2025 using an Autel EVO II Dual 640T V2 drone at ~10m above ground level, yielding a ground sampling distance of approximately 0.48 cm/pixel. A total of 366 full-resolution images were tiled into 8,800 patches at 640 x 640-pixel resolution. Of these, 800 images were manually annotated for three weed species; common lambsquarters (Chenopodium album), redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus), and green foxtail (Setaria viridis) comprising 10,539 bounding-box instances, with the remaining 8,000 tiles retained as an unlabeled pool for semi-supervised experiments. This dataset reflects a natural class imbalance where redroot pigweed constitutes 53.86% of annotated instances, which was preserved intentionally to mirror real field conditions. To validate dataset utility, we trained 28 object detection models spanning five architecture families including YOLOv8, YOLOv9, YOLOv10, YOLO11, YOLO26, and RT-DETR under identical conditions without hyperparameter tuning. Test set mAP@0.5 ranged from 0.773 to 0.840, with lightweight models achieving competitive performance relevant to edge-deployed UAV systems. USU-Corn-WeedDB is publicly available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20044178.
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