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Can Mobile Vision API be used us order to detect flower (plants) species? Do you have other recommendation? I have tried looking to several other API's but not sure what to use.

Thanks

Yair Hadari
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Mobile Vision API from Google can detect just a few most popular genera (species). I have tested Vision API a few month ago, but it's not really useful for this narrow use-case; also it needs to have a visible flower on the photo (not just leaves/stem).

Let me suggest specialized plant identification API instead: https://plant.id/api According to this independent study https://academic.oup.com/aobpla/article/12/6/plaa052/5910496 it is the most accurate plant identification software on the market (significantly better than Google Lens).

The demo client runs on https://plant.id so everybody can test the accuracy. Also the company gives a free trial to new clients.

Ondřej Veselý
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Mobile Vision API can be used to detect Flower/Plant.

It generates good result. It shows plan flower name and also it gives Plant/Flower family name as well.

TechFanatic
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  • Hi @TechFanatic can you please share the docs link where google vision api is used for flower recognition – Love-Kesh Dec 20 '16 at 05:25
  • @Love-Kesh You have to use Label detection for detection of Flower/Plants. Link - https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/label-tutorial – TechFanatic Dec 21 '16 at 03:22
  • How do I retrieve the flower name from the results? For Cyclamen image I have got the following result for example: [0] => Flower [1] => Flowering plant [2] => Plant [3] => Petal [4] => Purple [5] => Cyclamen [6] => Leaf [7] => Herbaceous plant [8] => Bellflower family [9] => Groundcover Thanks, Yair – Yair Hadari Sep 29 '20 at 08:59
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Nope, sorry :(

Mobile Vision API can for now only detect faces and scan barcodes.

I can hardly imagine that there is any API for detecting which kind of flower it is, based just on the picture of it :(

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