Check out OpenCV, it has lot of cool features including the one that you are looking for. I am thinking of some application similar to Google Goggles, where you take a picture of a species using your mobile and the application will give you all the details about the species ( At least all the species belonging to the same genus to start with, I have somewhat achieved this accuracy with my algorithm in MATLAB) .
All the best with your CHMs. Let me know if you need any technical support. Mail me in a personal mail as I don't want to disturb the entire group which is more interested in butterflies and not technical discussions. Thanks and Regards, Kishen On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Chandan Jyoti Gogoi <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi Kishen, > > thanks for initiating this idea. I had the similar idea around late 2007, > when I thought of creating a database as well as a field guide to be used in > mobile phone and laptops. But somehow it could not be a reality. > > But I thought in the line of Optical Character Recognition. I never found > any plugins (that searched for photographic similarity between the > photograph in the database to that of the picture to be identified) to be > attached to VB to get this job done. > > Now I am thinking to compile webpages (wikipedia, google etc.) in CHM > format so that it can be updated easily without any programming complexity. > > It would be a great help to amateurs and pros in the field or in places > where net is impossible to access. > > Regards, > > Chandan Jyoti Gogoi > > > "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." - > Benjamin Franklin > http://calvinssimulatedreality.blogspot.com/ > http://sites.google.com/site/butterflynortheast1/ > > -- Enjoy
