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https://www.flowerchecker.com/
You get a confidence factor, a link to its wiki page, and you can even send a special message with the pictures to help clarify things.
Nice concept. Unfortunately, I have tried to identify some of my plants but it could not identify correctly a single one. Just an endless procession of at best similar plants, most of the time completely dissimilar. I think this is another naive model that just tries to push entire problem to AI. That is unfortunately what I am seeing nowadays, very unimaginative. Just try to have fun with parameters of the network u…
Flora Incognita, a free plant identification app for Android and iOS, developed by a German university, does that. You choose a category first, like "tree", "flower", "grass" or "fern" and it will guide you through the process, trying to identify the plant with as few photos as necessary. Common ones it will identify from a single image, for others, it will e.g. prompt to take a close-up photo of the bark, bloom or t…
What ever happened to dichotomous keys?
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I have to agree on PlantNet. It is good enough to come up with a general name of a plant (ragwort), that you can then look up in a local plant guidebook to find out the specific variety (common ragwort). Hopefully, a privacy-friendly phone (ie Apple) manufacturer acquires them and does deep OS integration with the app.
I'm not understanding why you say that being purchased by a phone manufacturer would be better - wouldn't the optimal solution be to expose any features from the OS that the app could need, while leaving the app developers their independence?
I was alluding to Apple in my comment, as they are the ones that have a model for their mobile devices being some sort of knowledge lens. They are very easily capable to eat the cost of maintaining the database without resorting to some sort of exploitative business model.
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AIs are useful for "fuzzy" problems, but are not very good at doing precise things with high reliability. Every plant has baked in restrictions on how it grows. If you can identify separate features of a leaf and how the leaf grows out of the stem you can basically look it up in a table and tell what kind of tree you are looking at, without need for guessing. On the other hand AI will develop its own classification m…
Would it be possible to train the model to identify the features and then just have it run those through a trie of plant classifications? Trying to bake classifications into the model does seem silly but you still need an element of computer vision if you want to do this.
So, basically do what a person would do -- identify simple features visually and then consult the book to go through decision tree to figure out what you are looking at based on these features.
As you go through decision tree, you keep excluding more and more possibilities until you are left with only one match.
You would never mistake oak with a cactus because there are so many occasions on this decision tree to go one or the other way that you would have to make multiple mistakes.
But that's exactly what the algorithm seems to be doing -- mistaking plants that are very far away from each other when it comes to their build.
Awesome. It identified my fully grown pepper (capsicum ) plants as spinach. What could go wrong?
I wonder how much funding these guys have, and how much of it I could get by intentionally non-fatally poisoning myself with a misidentified plant? How much indemnity can the whole "WHILE WE ENDEAVOUR TO ENSURE THAT THE INFORMATION ON THE CANDIDE PLATFORM ARE CORRECT, WE DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS [...]" thing actually provide?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.plantnet&h...
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I used to use PictureThis until they started requiring a login in order to use it. Then I switched to LeafSnap, which works great.
At least for me on iOS it doesn't require a login. I too confirm that PictureThis works great.
However, the linked app (Candide) also seems to require a login, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time before they put limits on free accounts.
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You got me curious, so I tried that app, and I'm getting "Unknown species" for every single one of my plants... I guess no identification is better than bad identification.
Is it perhaps also a difference in intended use? If iNaturalist is for wildlife and uses location heavily, eg identifying tropical houseplants indoors in a different region might not work.