New app allows easy identification of all NZ plants, animals and fungi
www.waikato.ac.nz
Imagine being able to readily identify every plant and bird in your garden, on a hike or when showing off our beautiful country to visiting family and friends.

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.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What is wrong with iNatrralist? It’s ID normally seems quite good and then is backed up by some incredible real people

    • RaoulDuke@lemmy.nzMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      iNaturalist is great, but it takes time. This app is instant. I’ll definitely get a lot of use out of it myself.

        • RaoulDuke@lemmy.nzMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I didn’t realise they had an app, let alone an auto ID feature. I’m going to go and check it out now.

          Edit: It works well. I think one of the big benefits of the Waikato Uni app is that it works offline, without creating an observation, etc. And it does seem slightly better at IDing things in my quick tests. I’m glad you put me on to the iNaturalist app though. It’s good to have both.