Species identification plays an important role in botanical research, but traditional identification tool, which mainly depends on reference books or identification keys, is often recognized as a difficult and frustrating task, especially for novices. In recent decades, many efforts have been made by taxonomists and programmers to ease the difficulty of species identification by developing a range of tools that increasingly involved the use of computers. In this paper, new advances of plant identification based on three main artificial intelligent technologies: expert system, artificial neural network, and machine vision are briefly introduced. Several trends of plant identification tools for non-expert users are also proposed in the last part.
Plant Identification Using Artificial Intelligence: Innovative Strategies for Teaching Food Biodiversity
