Artificial Intelligence

and
Identifying Life Around Us
Using Google Lens app for plant, insect, bird and animal identification

By

Nidhi Chopra
Index
• Image recognition
• Science and A.I.
• Google Lens
• Identifying
• Example 1 - a flowering plant
• Example 2 - an insect
• Example 3 - a bird
• Example 4 - an animal
• Inference
• Acknowledgements
• References
Image recognition
• Artificial Intelligence – to enable a machine do intelligent tasks

• Decision making

• Image recognition

• Pattern recognition

• Text recognition
Science and A.I.
• Recognize devices

• Identify plants, animals, birds etc.

Life around us is:
• Macroscopic
• Microscopic

• Name popular models, diagrams, scientists, mathematicians

• Reverse search or image search (instead of text search)

Google Lens
• New app – 2017

• Image based search, like

• Google Goggles
• Samsung Bixby Vision
• Image Analysis Toolset

• This app is available on android and found integrated with the Google
Photos on iOS.
Identifying a plant from leaves and flowers
• Easily visible above mud / water
• Big
• Colorful
• Pattern (details)

There are lakhs of species of plants. Very difficult to recognize them

(even for a student or teacher of Botany), unless they are local.
Example 1
Using Google Lens app for leaf, flower and in
turn plant identification
• Click image of flower or leaf
Download app from app store
Open app and touch-open images folder
Select image from the gallery
The app shows name of flowering plant
Enlarge image and focus on distinguished features like
some pattern in leaves / petals etc.

You will see white dots on image when the app tries to
analyze image and map it with pre-stored database /
information using neural networks.
Scroll down for more information
Example 2
Identify leaves, animals, insects in a similar
way. See another example below:
Enlarge image and focus on distinguished features like
some pattern on the body of the living being.

You will again see white dots on image when the app
tries to analyze image and map it with pre-stored
database / information using neural networks.
Example 3
Notice the difference on iOS – lens integrated
with Photos app
Example 4
Identifying animal
Inference
• If not the exact answer, this application lowers search to 4-5 results.

• Using some experience, student / teacher can identify the biological entity.

• This app saves time and simplify the process of searching.

• Searching names of plants, animals, insects etc. is difficult using descriptive

characteristics especially when travelling in a new region.
Acknowledgements
This presentation is dedicated to my mother Late Mrs. Santosh Chopra
who was a Botany teacher. Problems she received from her students,
colleagues and discussed; are the inspiration behind this presentation.
References
• Google lens app on iOS and play store

• Wikipedia

• Image courtesy: IGNOU and author’s local parks

Thank you for your interest, time and patience
nidhi.chopra@gmail.com