Supervised Classification of Plant Image Based on Attention Mechanism

Abstract

In view of the wide variety of plants on the earth, the plant species identification is particularly necessary to protect and preserve biodiversity. In this work, we propose a plant image classification method based on the encoder-decoder model with additive attention mechanism to extract plant image features and convert them into text descriptions related to plant features. In a well-trained network, it can successfully classify on the species of the generated plant texts. We show that, the proposed method not only equalizes the results of deep convolutional neural network on classification task, but also uses of the prior information of botanists in classification, and thus provide a significant prediction result.