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Definitely an interesting concept. There's a bit more information on the indiegogo website [1]. Their problems they mention seem to be quite standard for image
by folli 10y ago
Definitely an interesting concept. There's a bit more information on the indiegogo website [1].
Their problems they mention seem to be quite standard for image recognition (scale- and perspective variance), however I could imagine that this could be quite disastrous for plant recognition, given the massive diversity of plants: e.g. a leaf viewed from the side could equally well be a more narrow leaf from a different species.
As they write on [1]: "Our challenge comes from adapting our image recognition platform to recognize different shapes and sizes of the same plants, flowers and trees. We know this is possible, and we are close to cracking it."
[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plantsnap-identify-plants-with-an-app-nature#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/plantsnap-identify-plants...
- yasth 10y agoHonestly they don't seem to be that close to cracking it, like at all. They may be using camera phone images, but they are well framed images of very distinctive features. Trying to recognize a literal tree in a forest is going to be far harder, and recognizing a tree based on a dead leaf (as a photo towards the bottom suggests) can be very very tricky. Also I have to admit to being concerned that adding "any known plant" won't kill accuracy. The more classification endpoints the less likely you are to get a decent result, and already you have to deal with far greater scale differences than are usual (basically it would be like identifying the breed of dog from anything from a full picture to a photo of a single claw).