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Artificial Intelligence Identifies Plant Species For Science


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Digitizing plant specimens

Digitizing plant specimens is opening up a whole new world for researchers looking to mine collections from around the world.

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Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted on herbarium sheets, researchers report.

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