http://www.gardenanswers.com app has the ability to automatically identify plants. If you can't find your plant, because it isn't blooming or is immature, or just isn't distinctive enough for image search, you can ask a horticulturist for a small fee.
Identify Plants with an App
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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 :)
I am almost certain I once installed it and paid for the birds. Even emailed support suggesting a Swedish version.
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#104This 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?
Nope. I use like 3 apps nowadays, and even those are just occasional. Havent had FB or twitter in years.
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#105I love the idea of an app to identify plants, I hate the idea of having to pay to use it... Definitely, I'm not in the target market.
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Dichotomous keys are the standard in taxonomy for species identification since centuries. It's basically a binary search tree, generated by hand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-access_key
Dichotomous keys are mostly useless when you deal with photos. For some reason people always find the most useless chamera position when taking photos to unknown plants.
chamera -> camera
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#107I've had good luck with plants.usda.gov identifying plants by geographical location. Just use the advanced search, choose the location you found the plant, e.g. state:county, and as much information as you can deduce, flower color, growth form, etc. It'll usually provide pictures and interesting things like whether Native Americans used it medicinally, etc.
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#108I did this for common plant diseases using Tensorflow on Android when learning how to use TF last year. Found the accuracy to be not that great with real world images that are not in the dataset (with a dataset of 50,000 images from PlantVillage). I think there are just too many visual similarities between various plants (especially when taken from various angles) that the network doesn't focus on the right things. D…
Not an expert -- would this be a result of training data doing a much better job isolating the subject vs a real world photo that may have other plants in the scene? Not that this is a solution in all cases, but is it possible your results would have improved with better real world pictures?
Not necessarily improved, because in real world photos you can have what I would baptise as "the voynich effect".
Plants in Voynich manuscript aren't real, can't even be classified in a family, but strangely still look familiar to us because they are "frankenplants". You can have exactly the same problem in photos of wild plants. It only takes the leaves of a climber growing over the flowers of other plant, or different flowers and fruits mixed together; and you'll have a new species. A very tricky one to identify. After scratching the head for a while humans can sense that something is wrong... machines normally can't see the problem. An (in)famous case is the photo of two juxtaposed black people arranged casually in a geometry that was tagged by the machine as 'gorilla'.
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this is made with convnets. so just point me to a dataset with a thousand examples per type, and I'll give you a working app in days. of course, finding and preparing that data is the real challenge
I would love to hear the details of what your process is on developing that. I am not sure I even know enough to ask the right questions on this. But what tools, languages, computing resources, etc do you use?
This [1] is a good start. You'll probably feel like you're drinking from the firehose though.
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#110/r/whatsthisplant FTW
Now we need to write an app to post images automatically and distribute a bitcoin bounty (set by OP) based on votes.