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The Plant Game: crowdsourced plants identification
Participants : Maximilien Servajean, Alexis Joly [contact] , Antoine Affouard.
The Plant Game is a participatory game whose purpose is the production
of large masses of taxonomic data to improve our knowledge of
biodiversity. The objective is to learn botany with fun and participate to a large
citizen sciences project in biodiversity. The game relies on
consistent research contributions in scalable crowdsourcing models and
algorithms that can deal with thousands of complex classes such as
plant species. One major contribution is the active training of the
users based on innovative sub-task creation and assignment processes
that are adaptive to the increasing skills of the user. The first
public version of the game was released in july 2015. As of today, about
22K players are registered and produce hundreds of new
validated plant observations per day. The accuracy of the produced
taxonomic tags is about