Does anyone have or know of a visual plant recognition program that works with PCs?
One would scan in the plant - leaf, stem etc (or a good photo) and be given the plant name and general information.
One could furthur refine the search if needed by answering additional questions - such as size in cm or mm, etc.
If there is nothing available I may begin working on such an item - although I realise the pattern recognition would
have to be quite sophisticated.For now I am beginning work on a program which will give picture choices of the
various identifiers - such as leaf shape, distributionof leaves on stem etc and will then come up with a picture or pictures
of possible plants identified.Anyone wanting to help will get a free copy of the finished database. Frank E Hocza
