[Adastra] Automated photo ID

[Charles Roper]

Here's an amazing thing:

http://photoid.naturalvision.de/

It's a photo ID service for birds, butterflies and wildflowers. You tweet
(on Twitter) an image to @id_birds, @id_plants or @id_wildflowers and it'll
send back a couple of suggestions. The id is done entirely using computer
visual recognition - no human takes a look at it. The programmer reckons it
gets roughly 8 out of 10 identifications correct if a good quality picture
is used. Note also that it can't identify ALL species in these groups, just
a subset. Still, mightily impressive nonetheless, especially when you
consider that a few years ago Computer Science considered this problem
'virtually impossible'.

Here's a little background information and a walk though of the system:

http://danielnouri.org/notes/2014/09/13/identifying-birds,-butterflies,-and-wildflowers-with-a-snap/

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Charles Roper - Technical Lead
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