New iPhone app identifies trees from photos of their leaves
This is my project =)<p>Leafsnap is a project I've been working on for about 2 years and we finally launched this week! It's a free app for the iPhone (with an iPad version coming next week and an Android version later in the summer) that contains very high-quality images and descriptions of the tree species of the Northeast US. It also has an automatic-recognition feature that uses computer vision to help users identify trees by taking a photo of a leaf.<p>This project is a joint collaboration between the computer science departments at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, and botanists at the Smithsonian Institution.<p>Please let me know what you think! Also, I'd be happy to answer any questions about the app or the recognition technology behind it.