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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 mharju »

0XAFFE wrote: post #18
mharju wrote: post #11

We did this http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/ a couple of years ago. It is based on an elimination process – you describe what you see and the application narrows down on the options. Works very well in practice, and can be applied to all sorts of indentification purposes in the wild, such as fish, birds and butterflies. We also gave the image regocnition path a thought but it seemed to be quite a tall order. Hop…

Is there something like this for Android? This app seem to be restricted to iOS.

Unfortunately we did not get to the Android App. Maybe some day :)

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by pawadu »

aphextron wrote: post #10

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 molec…

Slightly off-topic: am I the only one who has started uninstalling apps and using the mobile browser for most things?

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by folli »

Definitely an interesting concept. There's a bit more information on the indiegogo website [1].

Their problems they mention seem to be quite standard for image recognition (scale- and perspective variance), however I could imagine that this could be quite disastrous for plant recognition, given the massive diversity of plants: e.g. a leaf viewed from the side could equally well be a more narrow leaf from a different species.

As they write on [1]: "Our challenge comes from adapting our image recognition platform to recognize different shapes and sizes of the same plants, flowers and trees. We know this is possible, and we are close to cracking it."

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plantsnap-identify-plants...

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by valdiorn »

> Fast forward to today - the tech is available and the team is assembled to make PlantSnap a reality. With a beta version completed, and 250,000 images in the database

250,000 images doesn't sound like a large enough training set to be effective on anything but the most common plants.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by nr23 »

I use this android app for recognizing plants by picture: http://identify.plantnet-project.org/

It's made by french researchers I think. It doesn't work perfectly but I did identify a lot of plants I don't know with it.

You can snap multiple pictures of the same plant, for example, 2 pictures of the leaves, 1 of a flower and 1 of the bark, and then use the combination to search. You can also submit your observations to have them identified by experts.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by kleer001 »

pawadu wrote: post #23
aphextron wrote: post #10

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 molec…

Slightly off-topic: am I the only one who has started uninstalling apps and using the mobile browser for most things?

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