#merlinapp — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #merlinapp, aggregated by home.social.
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Sat on the loo, listening to the evening chorus, and thought, "That's not the usual loud blackbird song."
Out comes the Merlin app.....
Turn's out I'm sat there listening to a song thrush! That's a first.
🐦 #MerlinApp #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #UrbanWildlife #Songbird
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Curious about the birds in your neighborhood? Join me for an online training where I’ll show you how to use the Merlin App to identify local birds. Then we'll put it into practice with a morning of birdwatching together! Sign up below!
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Curious about the birds in your neighborhood? Join me for an online training where I’ll show you how to use the Merlin App to identify local birds. Then we'll put it into practice with a morning of birdwatching together! Sign up below!
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Curious about the birds in your neighborhood? Join me for an online training where I’ll show you how to use the Merlin App to identify local birds. Then we'll put it into practice with a morning of birdwatching together! Sign up below!
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Curious about the birds in your neighborhood? Join me for an online training where I’ll show you how to use the Merlin App to identify local birds. Then we'll put it into practice with a morning of birdwatching together! Sign up below!
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Now this (and #MerlinApp) are good uses for #Smartphones!
Structure and functionality of the #FloraIncognita app
"The Flora Incognita app currently allows the automatic identification of more than 16.000 vascular plant species. The identification process is intuitive: take a picture of the plant with the camera of the smartphone or #tablet. The unknown plant is then automatically identified in seconds. In addition to the identified plant species, a fact sheet displays further information such as characteristics, distribution, or protection status. The app was launched in April 2018 and is freely available in 20 languages for Android, iOS, and Harmony OS devices.
"The app guides users through an adaptive process of taking one or more images depicting specific organs of an unknown plant, such as a flower or a leaf. Which images are requested and in which order is determined automatically based on an observation’s context, that is, the growth form of the unknown plant, the current season and already acquired information. The identification process requires an internet connection for transferring images and metadata to the server and receiving results. In areas without network coverage, users can capture unknown plants and save those observations in offline mode. When, later, there is a network connection, those plant findings can be identified with all important metadata pertaining to that image (i.e. date and location). All images are analyzed using a cascade of deep neural networks on the Flora Incognita computer cluster. The app will either suggest a single plant species or a short list of similar species ranked by the identification probability. For each species, a comprehensive fact sheet and informative images depicting different perspectives and organs are provided. Users are requested to confirm the correct species at the end of the process to commit an observation."
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Now this (and #MerlinApp) are good uses for #Smartphones!
Structure and functionality of the #FloraIncognita app
"The Flora Incognita app currently allows the automatic identification of more than 16.000 vascular plant species. The identification process is intuitive: take a picture of the plant with the camera of the smartphone or #tablet. The unknown plant is then automatically identified in seconds. In addition to the identified plant species, a fact sheet displays further information such as characteristics, distribution, or protection status. The app was launched in April 2018 and is freely available in 20 languages for Android, iOS, and Harmony OS devices.
"The app guides users through an adaptive process of taking one or more images depicting specific organs of an unknown plant, such as a flower or a leaf. Which images are requested and in which order is determined automatically based on an observation’s context, that is, the growth form of the unknown plant, the current season and already acquired information. The identification process requires an internet connection for transferring images and metadata to the server and receiving results. In areas without network coverage, users can capture unknown plants and save those observations in offline mode. When, later, there is a network connection, those plant findings can be identified with all important metadata pertaining to that image (i.e. date and location). All images are analyzed using a cascade of deep neural networks on the Flora Incognita computer cluster. The app will either suggest a single plant species or a short list of similar species ranked by the identification probability. For each species, a comprehensive fact sheet and informative images depicting different perspectives and organs are provided. Users are requested to confirm the correct species at the end of the process to commit an observation."
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In other news, I've been using the REAL #BirdApp -- #Merlin from Cornell Labs. So far, I've identified #HouseWren, #AmericanRobins, #NorthernCardinal, #TuftedTitmouse, #PurpleFinch, #EasternTowhee and #RedEyedVireo -- just from my backyard! Some of them are migratory. Will post more about them soon. The #AmericanRobin is nesting next to the house, so that one comes up a lot.
#BirdWatching #BirdListening #MerlinApp -
In other news, I've been using the REAL #BirdApp -- #Merlin from Cornell Labs. So far, I've identified #HouseWren, #AmericanRobins, #NorthernCardinal, #TuftedTitmouse, #PurpleFinch, #EasternTowhee and #RedEyedVireo -- just from my backyard! Some of them are migratory. Will post more about them soon. The #AmericanRobin is nesting next to the house, so that one comes up a lot.
#BirdWatching #BirdListening #MerlinApp