Using Google Lens app for plant identification

1. Artificial Intelligence and
Botany
Using Google Lens app for plant identification
By
Nidhi Chopra

2. Index
• Image recognition
• Science and A.I.
• Google Lens
• Identifying a plant from leaves and flowers
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Inference

3. Image recognition
• Artificial Intelligence – to enable a machine do intelligent tasks
• Decision making
• Image recognition
• Pattern recognition
• Text recognition
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4. Science and A.I.
• Recognize devices
• Identify plants, animals, birds etc.
• Macroscopic
• Microscopic
• Name popular models, diagrams, scientists, mathematicians
• Reverse search or image search (instead of text search)

5. Google Lens
• New app – 2017
• Image based search, like
• Google Goggles
• Samsung Bixby Vision
• Image Analysis Toolset
• This app is also integrated with the Google Photos and Google
Assistant apps.

6. Identifying a plant from leaves and flowers
• Easily visible above mud / water
• Big
• Colorful
• Pattern (details)
There are lakhs of species of plants. Very difficult to recognize them
(even for a student or teacher of Botany), unless they are local.

7. Example 1

8. Using Google Lens app for leaf, flower and in
turn plant identification
• Click image of flower or leaf

9. Download app from app store

10. Open app and touch-open images folder

11. Select image from the gallery

12. The app shows name of flowering plant

13. Scroll down for more information

14. Example 2

15. Identify leaves, animals, insects in a similar
way. See another example below:

16. Inference
• If not the exact answer, this application lowers search to 4-5 results.
• Using some experience, student / teacher can identify the biological entity.
• This app saves time and simplify the process of searching.
• Searching names of plants, animals, insects etc. is difficult using descriptive
characteristics especially when in a new region.

17. Thank you for your time and patience
nidhi.chopra@gmail.com