In plain words: A competition handed teams cassava leaf photos, some labeled by experts with the disease and some not, and asked them to sort the sick leaves by disease type. It tested whether learning from the extra unlabeled photos beats training on labeled ones alone.
Abstract · iCassava 2019 Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Challenge
Viral diseases are major sources of poor yields for cassava, the 2nd largest provider of carbohydrates in Africa.At least 80% of small-holder farmer households in Sub-Saharan Africa grow cassava. Since many of these farmers have smart phones, they can easily obtain photos of dis-eased and healthy cassava leaves in their farms, allowing the opportunity to use computer vision techniques to monitor the disease type and severity and increase yields. How-ever, annotating these images is extremely difficult as ex-perts who are able to distinguish between highly similar dis-eases need to be employed. We provide a dataset of labeled and unlabeled cassava leaves and formulate a Kaggle challenge to encourage participants to improve the performance of their algorithms using semi-supervised approaches. This paper describes our dataset and challenge which is part of the Fine-Grained Visual Categorization workshop at CVPR2019.
Ernest Mwebaze, Timnit Gebru, Andrea Frome, Solomon Nsumba, Jeremy Tusubira
arXiv:1908.02900 · cs.CV · submitted Aug 8, 2019 · updated Dec 24, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Kaggle competition website: https://www.kaggle.com/c/cassava-disease/overview, CVPR fine-grained visual categorization website: https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc6