Pl@ntNet is a
citizen science project for
automatic plant identification
In biology, determination is the process of matching a specimen of an organism to a known taxon, for example identifying a plant. The term is also used in cellular biology, where it means the act of the differentiation of stem cells becoming fix ...
through
photographs and based on
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Machine ...
.
History
This project launched in 2009 has been developed by scientists (
computer engineers and
botanists
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that auth ...
) from a
consortium gathering French
research institutes (
Institut de recherche pour le développement
The Institut de Recherche pour le Développement or IRD () is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Foreign Affairs. It operates internationally ...
(IRD),
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD),
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA),
(INRIA) and the network
Tela Botanica, with the support of
Agropolis Fondation
).
Platforms
An
app for smartphones (and a web version) was launched in 2013, which allows to
identify thousands of plant species from photographs taken by the user. It is available in several languages.
As of 2019 it had been downloaded over 10 million times, in more than 180 countries worldwide.
Projects
In 2019, Pl@ntNet has 22 projects:
References
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Botany
Citizen science
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Internet properties established in 2009