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Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by throwanem »

Herodotus38 wrote: post #9
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.

That's a two-edged sword; I've seen a few birds which, if the range diagrams in my field guides are to be believed, have no business being anywhere near where I am, and were probably up to no good. Granted plants move less quickly, but I'd hesitate to put all that much weight on location all the same.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by max_ »

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…

In fact. There is a better product, Google Goggles - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by hrktb »

max_ wrote: post #43
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…

In fact. There is a better product, Google Goggles - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

I don't know if the mention was intentional or not, but Goggles is actually dead as a product. They removed it from the iOS app, and the android app is not supported, while staying in the store.

In this respect, as the GP says, image search is currently the best option

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by madshiva »

pingou wrote: post #39
madshiva wrote: post #17

I want do the same for mushroom, because they are hard to recognize. Google images works quite fine.

I did it, but the results can be pretty disappointing, I'm still working on improving them: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pingou.cha... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/champignouf/id1227854971 ps: any improvement suggestion is welcome!

Nice, will give a try. Hope you didn't stole my spot where I get my mushroom :P

Google Image is really working quite good. I made a lot of test. The only problem is about there's TOS. I can easily write something but I don't want to be flagged because I don't want use there API.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by Alex3917 »

madshiva wrote: post #38
aphextron wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Visual identification of mushrooms can be deadly. Always do a proper spore print and have it analyzed by a mycologist.

wut? I know it can be deadly but it's your responsibility to eat it or not. I think about tell information, like you want for other type of plant too, you want know if it's the right time to cut it, etc. nothing about eating or not. I don't need really an apps for finding some morels.

Some species of morels may actually be poisonous, none are deadly though. (Unless maybe if you eat then raw.)

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by notimetorelax »

rorykoehler wrote: post #37
nr23 wrote: post #27

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…

It doesn't work very well in Singapore at all. I guess the training set didn't include much from this part of the world.

In the app it does say that

  Pl@ntNet only works for the plants of the French metropolitan flora.

Re: Identify Plants with an App

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Post by duiker101 »

max_ wrote: post #43
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…

In fact. There is a better product, Google Goggles - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

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