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Botantical classification is interesting but difficult. Once trained, it's fast enough, but can "deep learning" be anywhere near accurate enough? I'd guess the
by hyperpallium 10y ago
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.
- Herodotus38 10y agoI wonder too how much geolocation could pare things down, provided it's not invasive/introduced species.
- throwanem 10y agoThat'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.
- folli 10y agoDichotomous 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-access_key