How does this compare to PlantSnap and pl@ntNet?
Or Seek (iNaturalist)
Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
my partner used one called PictureThis and it identified most of all the plants around our property here in New Zealand ( mix of natives and introduced), it got ones that were a complete mystery to us.
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.
Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
#13I have an app on my iPhone that works pretty well (PictureThis). Probably does about the same thing as this.
I noticed that the following clause in their Ts & Cs:
> You grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide and royalty-free right and license to use your Content for the purposes of providing, promoting, developing and trying to improve the Candide Platform and our other services, including new services that we may provide in the future. We will not sell your Content to any third party
does not have punctuation after the last sentence.
I'm not a Grammar Nazi[0], but that tells me that the sentence was changed at the last minute.
Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
my partner used one called PictureThis and it identified most of all the plants around our property here in New Zealand ( mix of natives and introduced), it got ones that were a complete mystery to us.
I used to use PictureThis until they started requiring a login in order to use it. Then I switched to LeafSnap, which works great.
I have it, and they don't require a login. I use it several times a week.
My main complaint about it, is that it's a battery hog; but it works well.
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#15My immediate thought is that this could be quite dangerous if used by inexperienced foragers. It’s very easy as a human to misidentify poison hemlock as cow’s parsley, for example, which is a lethal mistake.
It’s a very cool project though, of course.
Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
#16There is also a free service trained on Norwegian plants: https://orakel.artsdatabanken.no/
The final step in the user guide is (roughly translated):
> Now it's your turn to think! A high match percentage is no guarantee that the result is correct. Artsorakelet tries to match your pictures to pictures it has seen previously, but many species have no, few, or bad pictures! It has not been trained on domestic animals, garden flowers or humans, or pictures with restricted access, such as images of large predators
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#17Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
my partner used one called PictureThis and it identified most of all the plants around our property here in New Zealand ( mix of natives and introduced), it got ones that were a complete mystery to us.
I used to use PictureThis until they started requiring a login in order to use it. Then I switched to LeafSnap, which works great.
This is one of those markets where even ignoring open source/etc you never need to pay for it, because at the moment there is a new plant recognition app once a fortnight with a free trial. And none of them have any real lock-in because they're basically stateless.
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#19Nice 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 until you find some kind of configuration that seems to be working.
What it would benefit from would be some kind of analysis/classification of basic features of the plants like what's the basic shape of the leaf, trunk, how things are connected, etc.
The classification would benefit from AI (like identify where leaves are, where trunk is, etc.) but then that intel would be passed to a more classification-oriented algorithm.
(disclaimer, I am not an AI developer, it just seems to me like pretty rational way to approach the problem)
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#20The augmented reality function that seems to allow you to label your plants seems intriguing. I wanted to try this over PicturesThis (I don’t like how PictureThis makes it look you need their subscription for the app to work)
But it seems the app is not available in my region maybe because of GDPR, I guess?