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 # Open Plant Phenotyping Database
 
-Open Plant Phenotyping Database [OPPD]
+The Open Plant Phenotyping Database [OPPD] is a public dataset for visual recognition tasks on images of plant seedlings.
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+The dataset consists of 4,042 images with 114,231 plant objects, representing 16,519 individual plants from 26 different species. Each plant species has been cultivated using three growth conditions (ideal, drought and natural) and tracked temporally to achieve high intra-species variability.
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