When I go to the supermarket, I oftern feel confused when buying green leafy culinary herbs - they all look the same to me. I had to put a lot of effort into learnig how to recognize spinach. I can't afford to spend additional time and effort to learn other herbs. To make my life less miserable, I decided to call for the power of deep learning to the rescue. Let's make a neural net help me tell apart various culinary herbs.
Because I live in China, I will limit my classifier to herbs commonly available at vegetable markets in Beijing. Some of them don't have English names.
| Class | Chinese | Pinyin | English | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 白菜 | bái cài | Chinese cabbage | |
| 2 | 菠菜 | bō cài | spinach | |
| 3 | 菜心 | cài xīn | choy sum | |
| 4 | 儿菜 | ér cài | --- | |
| 5 | 盖菜 | gài cài | leaf mustard | |
| 6 | 芥蓝 | jiè lán | Chinese broccoli | |
| 7 | 蒿子杆 | hāo zǐ gān | Tricolor daisy | |
| 8 | 黄心菜 | huáng xīn cài | --- | |
| 9 | 茴香 | huí xiāng | fennel | |
| 10 | 鸡毛菜 | jī máo cài | --- | |
| 11 | 韭菜 | jiǔ cài | garlic chives | |
| 12 | 空心菜 | kōng xīn cài | water spinach | same as 蕹菜 (wèng cài) |
| 13 | 快菜 | kuài cài | --- | |
| 14 | 苦菊 | kǔ jú | endive | |
| 15 | 芦笋 | lú sǔn | asparagus | |
| 16 | 芹菜 | qín cài xīn | celery | |
| 17 | 蒜黄 | suàn huáng | --- | |
| 18 | 蒜苔 | suàn tái | garlic shoots | |
| 19 | 茼蒿菜 | tóng hāo cài | crown daisy | |
| 20 | 豌豆苗 | wān dòu miáo | pea shoots | |
| 21 | 莴苣 | wō jù | lettuce | |
| 22 | 香菜 | xiāng cài | cilantro | |
| 23 | 香芹 | xiāng qín | parsley | |
| 24 | 小白菜 | xiǎo bái cài | bok choy | |
| 25 | 西洋菜 | xī yáng cài | watercress | |
| 26 | 叶生菜 | yè shēng cài | lettuce | |
| 27 | 油菜 | yóu cài | oilseed rape | |
| 28 | 羽衣甘蓝 | yǔ yī gān lán | kale | |
| 29 | 竹笋 | zhú sǔn | bamboo shoot |