Durian disease field dataset from Peninsular Malaysia, with capture-session identifiers
Abstract
560 field photographs of five durian disease categories, collected from commercial orchards across Peninsular Malaysia between July 2025 and June 2026, with per-image capture-session identifiers. The session identifiers are the point of this release. The 560 images come from only 73 independent capture sessions. A symptomatic leaf is normally photographed several times in a few seconds from slightly different angles, and those frames are not independent observations. Split this data at image level and near-identical views of one specimen land on both sides of the train/test boundary. In our own initial partition, 79.6% of images fell in sessions that straddled a split. Re-running the identical experiment with sessions kept whole lowered macro F1 by 12.2 points on average across nine architectures, positive in all nine and as much as 18.4 in one. Group your partitions by the session column in sessions.csv. Contents. images_fullres/ — the 560 originals as captured, in class folders. images_512/ — the same images at 512 px maximum edge, which is what the models were trained and evaluated on. sessions.csv — class, filename and session for every image. splits/session_level/ — the partition reported in the paper (446/58/56). splits/image_level/ — the control partition used to measure leakage (446/54/60). Evaluate at the resolution you train at. Every figure in the paper is computed on images_512. Running the same checkpoint over images_fullres through an identical Resize(256) and CenterCrop(224) pipeline gives 77.6% instead of 72.0% on the held-out set, because the two resampling paths to 224 px are not the same. The originals are included so the collection is complete, not because they are the working copy. Classes. Algal Leaf Spot (Cephaleuros virescens), Leaf Rot (Colletotrichum spp.), Phomopsis Fruit and Stem Blight (Phomopsis durionis), Pink Disease (Erythricium salmonicolor), Root Disease (Phytophthora spp.). Pink_disease is represented by three capture sessions in the entire collection; its per-class metrics are not interpretable at that support, and it is what bounds grouped cross-validation at k = 3. Annotation. Labels were assigned by the author under the guidance of growers and extension staff with field experience in these orchards. There was no second independent rater, so no inter-rater agreement statistic is available. Consent. Images were collected on site with the orchard owner's permission, or contributed by growers who were told at the time that the images would be released publicly for research. No images contain identifiable persons. A small number show a hand holding a leaf; that framing is part of the field condition being modelled. No location is published at finer resolution than district.