Image Recognition of Plant Leaves for Species Identification 
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Hugh Pearse
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**What is this project?:**
	A Search Engine For Photographs of Plants.

**Where can I find detailed information about this project?**
	There is documentation in the docs folder.

**Does this project have a dataset of plant leaves?**
	No, this project uses small 3rd party datasets that are freely available
	and are being used for educational purposes only. This is termed as fair use.

**What license is this software issued under?**
	This software is issued under Reciprocal Public License 1.5
	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl1.5.txt

**Requirements:**
* [Image-Magic](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)
* [Image-Magic Scripts](http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/)
* [MySql](http://www.mysql.com/downloads/)
* [CentOS](http://www.centos.org/)

**Datasets:**
	[Flavia Dataset (33 species, 1GB)](https://sourceforge.net/projects/flavia/files/Leaf%20Image%20Dataset/1.0/Leaves.tar.bz2/download)

	[Leaf-Recognition Dataset (92 species, 4MB)](http://leaf-recognition.googlecode.com/files/dataset.zip)

	[Leaf Snap (164 species, 13MB)](http://leafsnap.com/species/)

Similar Software:
	Leaf Snap
	http://leafsnap.com/
	
	leaf-recognition
        http://code.google.com/p/leaf-recognition/

	[2007] Flavia
	http://flavia.sourceforge.net/

	[2011] John Flanagan - project Maple
	https://github.com/johnflan/Maple
	
	[2007] Leaves Recognition v1.0
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrecog/
	
	[2009] ePlantAnalyzer
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShN_0hqnyM0
	
	[2010] kfulles
	http://code.google.com/p/kfulles/