New app allows easy identification of all NZ plants, animals and fungi
www.waikato.ac.nz
Imagine being able to readily identify every plant and bird in your garden, on a hike or when showing off our beautiful country to visiting family and friends.

This is from a few months ago but really interesting work from some university students that trained a popular machine learning model on data from iNaturalist.nz. The app is pretty good at identifying endemic species. The entire model is installed with the app which means that it works offline.

  • DaveMAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s cool! It sounds like you’ve given it a go, have you compared to international apps like PlantSnap to see if it gives better results given it’s only looking for NZ species?

    I hadn’t heard about iNaturalist until I visited an exhibition at the Puke Ariki museum in New Plymouth that explains a project to classify species off the Taranaki coast and the publish everything on iNaturalist.