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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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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] flambonkscious 1 points 1 year ago

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)