LeafSnapPH: A Mobile Application for Identifying Leaf Samples of Philippine Plants

Abstract

The task of identifying plants is time-consuming even for botanists. LeafSnap PH is a mobile application that will aid users in identifying plant species through their leaves. The system will allow the user to search the database, browse the list of collected leaf samples, and take pictures of leaves and analyze them. The leaf feature that will be extracted is its shape using contour points, and this will be used in identifying the leaf using support vector machine.