FAIRHiveFrames-1K: 1,265 Annotated Hive Frame Images for Bee Colony Monitoring

FAIRHiveFrames-1K is a publicly available dataset of 1,265 manually annotated hive frame images designed to support research in precision apiculture and computer vision. It contains 124,669 annotated regions of interest across seven biologically meaningful categories, derived from a USDA–ARS multi-sensor research reservoir. The dataset is distributed with multiple annotation formats, fixed train/validation splits, and baseline model weights.

Use Cases

• Training object detection models for bee colony health monitoring based on annotated categories like CappedHoneyCell and PollenCell.
• Benchmarking model performance on dense, small-object detection tasks in agricultural imagery.
• Developing AI-enabled agricultural monitoring systems (Agriculture 4.0) for apiculture based on annotated hive frame features.
• Reproducible benchmarking of vision models under realistic hardware constraints using the provided fixed data splits.

Strengths

• Contains 1,265 high-resolution (1920×1080) PNG images.
• Features 124,669 manually annotated regions of interest across seven distinct biological categories.
• Annotations were performed using a consensus-based protocol involving two annotators and domain-informed verification.
• Includes multiple annotation formats (YOLO, PascalVOC), fixed data splits, and pretrained baseline model weights for reproducibility.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• The dataset's size is listed as 0.0 B, indicating the record is a metadata entry; the full data must be downloaded from an external host.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Derived from the USDA-ARS Tucson, Arizona research reservoir of multi-year field experiments on managed honey bee colonies.

Collection Method

Images are derived from a longitudinal USDA–ARS multi-sensor research reservoir (2013–2022). Annotation was performed using a consensus-based protocol.

Time Range

Source data spans 2013–2022. Dataset version frozen December 31, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 06:55:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data originates from USDA-ARS research in Tucson, Arizona, USA.