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OP here. It knows more than 500 species, results range from terrible to ok, but I will work on improving that, and add more information about each mushroom (lik
by pingou 9y ago
OP here.
It knows more than 500 species, results range from terrible to ok, but I will work on improving that, and add more information about each mushroom (like species that look alike but are not edible).
Nobody should use it to know if a mushroom is safe to eat anyway, probably I'll add even more warnings as it may not be obvious enough.
- scott_s 9y agoMaybe clarify you're identifying the kind of mushroom from a picture. I clicked through, wasn't quite sure what the purpose was, as the text made it sound like the output would be "Yup, that's a mushroom."
- kharms 9y agoI'm working on something similar as a hobby project. What approach did you take to ID mushrooms? Model -> mushroom? Or Model->feature->mushroom? What kind of model? Where did you get your training dataset? Definitely add a big loud warning on the home page that this isn't a reliable.
- spikedavis 9y agoIt identified a picture of Toad (yes, from Mario) as Hypsizygus ulmarius.
- Alex3917 9y agoFWIW, it failed at identifying my winecaps. It was a pretty easy picture too, albeit there were multiple in the shot.
- surement 9y agoIf you know which are unsafe, you could have a threshold confidence, say the algorithm classifies one as shiitake with 90% probability but some unsafe mushroom at >40% probability (or some percentage that makes sense), it could say, "looks like this is a shiitake, but careful it could be <unsafe mushroom>, here's some pictures and info about <unsafe mushroom>."
- sliverstorm 9y agoYeah, really the chief use for an app like this would probably wind up as, how confident are you that this mushroom will not kill me which is a slightly different problem.
- djb_hackernews 9y agoIt identified my thumb as one of a few possible mushrooms...