Saturday, August 12, 2017

Deep learning could discover new plant species hidden in centuries of herbarium data


Deep learning could discover new plant species hidden in centuries of herbarium data

Machine learning techniques excel at doing a good-enough job quickly in situations where there's lots of data to grind through. It turns out that's a great fit for backlogs of plant samples at herbariums and other repositories around the world, which have millions of the things waiting to be digitized and identified - including some that may be new to science.

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