Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo • Hacker News Board

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by tkahnoski » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 6:57 PM UTC

olivierlacan wrote: post #55

Understandably people are realizing that it's now much easier to discover what plants (and animals, and fungus, etc.) exist around you and whether they're special in some way. But when picking apps to accomplish that task, I suggest selecting for those that respect your privacy (because a lot of these plant observations involve GPS location), are clear about how the machine learning datasets are trained and what's be…

Seek is AWESOME. We discovered it late in 2020 but it raised the bar for all our outdoor excursions with the kids. Even a routine walk around the neighborhood is an enriched experience as the kids careful observe their surrounding looking for a new bug or flower.

The only downside is when we get to a new place I have to remind the kids we can't stop every minute to 'Seek' something otherwise we'll never get back home!

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by fiddleleaf » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

So like Google Lens but not cross-platform

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by a9h74j » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 10:52 PM UTC

Not precisely on topic, but two professors at U.C. Berkely are involved in helping people identify edible plants in urban settings, particularly Oakland. This excellent piece makes mention of a phone app they are using in conjunction.

https://phys.org/news/2014-11-foragers-bounty-edibles-urban-...

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by tygrak » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 11:16 PM UTC

I use plant.id for this and it actually seemed to give me correct identifications every time I used it so far.

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by Sophistifunk » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 12:13 AM UTC

"This app is not available in your country or region"

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by filoeleven » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:45 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #80

lmilcin wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly what I thought up without having any experience in the area. 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 wi…

That’s the same problem you might have with a self driving car driven by an ML algorithm: is that an open lane or someone wearing a black outfit with white stripes?

Thankfully, the plants and the app user are both moving a lot slower.

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by filoeleven » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:48 AM UTC

jsmorph wrote: post #27

https://www.inaturalist.org/ also does this kind of thing. iNaturalist works well for lots of different organisms.

It’s apparently much nicer on Android than on iOS. I have only used their other app Seek, and while the IDs are pretty good, the UX ain’t great.

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by filoeleven » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:52 AM UTC

tkahnoski wrote: post #91

olivierlacan wrote: post #55

Understandably people are realizing that it's now much easier to discover what plants (and animals, and fungus, etc.) exist around you and whether they're special in some way. But when picking apps to accomplish that task, I suggest selecting for those that respect your privacy (because a lot of these plant observations involve GPS location), are clear about how the machine learning datasets are trained and what's be…

Seek is AWESOME. We discovered it late in 2020 but it raised the bar for all our outdoor excursions with the kids. Even a routine walk around the neighborhood is an enriched experience as the kids careful observe their surrounding looking for a new bug or flower. The only downside is when we get to a new place I have to remind the kids we can't stop every minute to 'Seek' something otherwise we'll never get back home…

I really want to like Seek, but it has a nag screen and long load time (even on phone unlock) that prevent getting fast photos. Its IDs are pretty great though.