Section: Software and Platforms

Pl@ntNet-mobile

Participants : Vera Bakic, Souheil Selmi, Hervé Goëau, Alexis Joly [contact] .

URL: http://goo.gl/CpSrr3

Pl@ntNet-mobile is an image sharing and retrieval application for the identification of plants built in the continuity of the former web application Pl@ntNet-Identify (http://identify.plantnet-project.org ) (presented in last year activity report). It is developed in the context of the Pl@ntNet project that involves four French research organisations (Inria, Cirad, INRA, IRD) and the members of Tela Botanica social network. The key feature of this free app is to help identifying plant species from photographs, through a server-side visual search engine based on several results of ZENITH team on content-based information retrieval. Since its first release in March 2013 on the apple store, the application was downloaded by around 80K users in about 150 countries (between 200 and 2000 active users daily with peaks occurring during the week-ends). 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 80K images covering more than 3500 French plant species about 2/3 of the whole French flora (this is actually the widest identification tool built anytime).