[2403.12072] Floralens: a Deep Learning Model for the Portuguese Native Flora

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2403.12072 (cs) [Submitted on 13 Feb 2024 (v1), last revised 6 Apr 2026 (this version, v4)] Title:Floralens: a Deep Learning Model for the Portuguese Native Flora Authors:António Filgueiras, Eduardo R. B. Marques, Luís M. B. Lopes, Miguel Marques, Hugo Silva View a PDF of the paper titled Floralens: a Deep Learning Model for the Portuguese Native Flora, by Ant\'onio Filgueiras and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Machine-learning techniques, especially deep convolutional neural networks, are pivotal for image-based identification of biological species in many Citizen Science platforms. In this paper, we describe the construction of a dataset for the Portuguese native flora based on publicly available research-grade datasets, and the derivation of a high-accuracy model from it using off-the-shelf deep convolutional neural networks. We anchored the dataset in high-quality data provided by Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica and added further sampled data from research-grade datasets available from GBIF. We find that with a careful dataset design, off-the-shelf machine-learning cloud services such as Google's AutoML Vision produce accurate models, with results comparable to those of Pl@ntNet, a state-of-the-art citizen science platform. The best model we derived, dubbed Floralens, has been integrated into the public website of Project Biolens, where we gather models for other taxa as well. The ...