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Pl@ntNet
Participants : Antoine Affouard, Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Hervé Goëau, Alexis Joly [contact] .
Pl@ntNet is an image sharing and retrieval application for the
identification of plants. It is developed in the context of the
Floris'tic project that involves
Inria, CIRAD, INRA, IRD and Tela Botanica. The key
feature of the iOS and Android front ends is to help identifying plant
species from photographs, through a server-side visual search engine.
Since its first release in march 2013 on the apple store,
the application has been downloaded by 3M users in more than 170
countries, with between 15,000 and 50,000 active users daily. The collaborative training set
that allows the content-based identification is continuously enriched
by the users of the application and the members of Tela Botanica
social network. At the time of writing, it includes about 300K images
covering more than 10K species in the world (and about