Object detection of Plants and flowers
Hi, I am Kurian, I am here to talk about my latest project idea. I have been fascinated by the latest advances in Machine Learning and AI. I truly believe AI is the next big electricity.
For a person like me, who doesn’t even remember the name of a person who just recently met. Knowing which all plants and flowers are there in my house seems a daunting task. To make tasks even worst, I have an area of more than 1 acres of land. I just know very few trees name(since most of the mallus have plentiful of coconuts and flowers) and in case of flowers, I can’t recognise most of them in my house.
When I was discussing this idea with my mentor Gopikrishnan Sasikumar, he also narrated how he met a classmate during 9th standard who didn’t even know what was Thumpapu.
Our plan is to create an app for plant detection in offline mode. So the idea of prototype is a app:
a) Which automatically detects the plants whenever you walk in a garden and tell what plant it is.
b)On top of it if you like plant we detected we will connect you to plant producers who sell that plant in your locality.
c) Identify plant from a image you show
One of the main constrains is to find the required data for this Image detection. My initial idea was to collect images and manually download from Google. Later I found an API which downloads images based on google keywords. Yet these images are sometimes far from reality and in actual conditions. The predictions based on Data won’t give such a good prediction. I am looking to crowdsource the data collection, by teaming up with like-minded people. I am planning to talk to a few botanist professors and teachers in college initially to have a better idea and try to build utility apps for them. The crowdsourcing initiative is still under planning. If you have any idea how to get an image dataset of plants, please contact me.
My aim is to make a cutting-edge image detection classifier using the latest algorithm. I am on the process of learning about the latest algorithms which give the best performance from Convolution networks course from Deep Learning.ai. I will be playing around with YOLO, CNN’s pretty soon.
The project will be implemented soon. 😎
Contact me
Email kurianbenoy1998@gmail.com
Twitter @kurianbenoy2
