Machine learning researchers team up with Chinese botanists on flower-recognition project
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 06:41
in Mathematics & Economics
Has this ever happened to you? You're out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, but you're stumped—you have no idea what it is. Instead of having to admit you don't know, what if you could quickly identify the flower or any other plant wherever you happen to be? But how? At least 250,000 species of flowers exist and even experienced botanists have trouble identifying them all. Now there's a way thanks to the rising power and sophistication of image recognition and the ease of taking pictures with your smartphone.