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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ryan Davenport AWGB on June 10, 2015, 04:57:12 PM

Title: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Ryan Davenport AWGB on June 10, 2015, 04:57:12 PM

Hi just thought I would share an app that I have found that seems to be very accurate, you simply take a picture of a leaf and the facial recognition software will identify what tree it is, the app is called Leafsnap UK.
It is a great app available for free form Apple App Store so I presume you can get it on android too.

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: z3ddie on June 10, 2015, 05:08:03 PM

Thanks - Nice little app

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Graham on June 10, 2015, 05:20:07 PM

Thanks. I will be looking at that one.

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Ryan Davenport AWGB on June 10, 2015, 06:05:25 PM

You're welcome, I have tried it several times and it seems to be quite accurate, even tried taking different images of the same tree lol, cleaver stuff....

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Haggy on June 10, 2015, 09:23:06 PM

Thanks also Ryan for this.  I will definitely give the app a go!
     Haggy

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Graham on June 11, 2015, 08:52:07 AM

Just downloaded it. I have been looking for something like this, will try it out later today.

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: andersonec on June 11, 2015, 05:33:41 PM

Only works in the summer  ;)

Andy

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Ryan Davenport AWGB on June 11, 2015, 06:14:16 PM

I think they are currently working on it so that it works from the bark too , it also contains pictures of the leaves and bark, and other information for manual identification.

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: Graham on June 11, 2015, 08:11:46 PM

Quote from: andersonec on June 11, 2015, 05:33:41 PM

Only works in the summer  ;)

Andy

Considering the cost I suppose you cannot moan to much  :)

Title: Re: Tree/wood identification
Post by: z3ddie on June 12, 2015, 12:04:44 PM

Downloaded and took a bit to work out - you have to go into 'settings' and allow your camera to access the app.
You also have to have internet connection to get a verification

There is no Android version - one in the pipeline apparently