Re:New species of fungus identified via Twitter
by MattBlissett on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:42AM
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As azeirah writes, subreddits or Facebook groups for people interested in the particular group or location will often help.
For general wild plants and animals (and fungi and everything else) there's a computer vision tool from iNaturalist, which can be used independently [1], or when submitting an observation to the site -- by web browser or in the app. I usually start with that, then look at other observations on iNaturalist and Wikipedia pages for the species.
If the photos are of ornamental plants, I think PlantNet's [2] model is trained on them.
(I work at GBIF[3], where suitable data from iNaturalist[3b] and soon PlantNet is sent, and can then be freely downloaded and used in research etc.)
For general wild plants and animals (and fungi and everything else) there's a computer vision tool from iNaturalist, which can be used independently [1], or when submitting an observation to the site -- by web browser or in the app. I usually start with that, then look at other observations on iNaturalist and Wikipedia pages for the species.
If the photos are of ornamental plants, I think PlantNet's [2] model is trained on them.
(I work at GBIF[3], where suitable data from iNaturalist[3b] and soon PlantNet is sent, and can then be freely downloaded and used in research etc.)
[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/computer_vision_demo
[2] https://plantnet.org/
[3] https://www.gbif.org/
[3b] https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...