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Identify Plants with an App

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Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by hyperpallium »

Botantical classification is interesting but difficult. Once trained, it's fast enough, but can "deep learning" be anywhere near accurate enough?

I'd guess there'd be a focus on salient botantical features for classification, and perhaps the human can be enlisted to circle them out. There could be a "twenty questions"-type narrowing down, perhaps using images.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by Herodotus38 »

hyperpallium wrote: post #4

Botantical classification is interesting but difficult. Once trained, it's fast enough, but can "deep learning" be anywhere near accurate enough? I'd guess there'd be a focus on salient botantical features for classification, and perhaps the human can be enlisted to circle them out. There could be a "twenty questions"-type narrowing down, perhaps using images.

I wonder too how much geolocation could pare things down, provided it's not invasive/introduced species.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by aphextron »

This product already exists. It's called Google Image Search. For instance, I was actually able to identify the second flower he takes a picture of in the video as Camellia Japonica simply from a screenshot of the video. I'd be blown away if they were able to assemble a better training set than Google. Kind of disappointing, as from the headline I was expecting something based on NIR spectroscopy, like the SciO molecular sensor (https://www.consumerphysics.com/)
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