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Jan 2023: New app allows easy identification of all NZ plants, animals and fungi
(www.waikato.ac.nz)
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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.
I haven't tested it against international apps. This app uses EfficientNetV2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00298
There is a web version available too: https://what-is-this.cms.waikato.ac.nz/
It seems to fail on pictures of elephants so maybe it isn't trained on everything in the world...
Fails on the elephant test? That's kinda funny
I love that it's all working locally, does it handle plants as well? (All the images show animals)