Section: New Software and Platforms

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 $60\%$ of the West European flora).