Sabanci-Okan system at LifeCLEF 2014 plant identification competition

Official URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1180/CLEF2014wn-Life-YanicogluEt2014.pdf

We describe our system in 2014 LifeCLEF [1] Plant Identification Competition. The sub-system for isolated leaf category (LeafScans) was basically the same as last year [2], while plant photographs in all the remaining categories were classified using either local descriptors or deep learning techniques. However, due to large amount of data, large number of classes and shortage of time, our system was not very successful in the plant photograph sub-categories; but we obtained better results in isolated leaf images. As announced by the organizers, we obtained an inverse rank score of 0.127 overall and 0.449 for isolated leaves.