DAPlankton

The DAPlankton dataset consists of over 110k expert-labeled plankton images. The data is divided into two subsets: DAPlankton_LAB and DAPlankton_SEA. DAPlankton_LAB consists of images captured from multiple mono-specific phytoplankton cultures, which were analysed using three different imaging instruments: Imaging FlowCytoBot (IFCB), CytoSense (CS) flow cytometer, and FlowCam (FC) imaging microscope each producing cropped images with one plankton particle in each. An expert further verified the class of each image, ensuring that there was no cross contamination between different cultures. This process resulted in a balanced dataset with negligible label uncertainty. DAPlankton_SEA consists of images captured from water samples collected from the Baltic Sea using two different imaging instruments: IFCB and CS. Each image was manually labeled by an expert. DAPlankton_SEA provides a realistic and more challenging dataset with a large class imbalance and natural intra-class variance.