16 Apr 2016

Leaf identification

From This Way Up, 1:45 pm on 16 April 2016
Heat map outputs of leaves

Heat map outputs of leaves Photo: Supplied

Professor Peter Wilf at Pennsylvania State University is using the latest machine learning technology to identify ancient leaves. A computer program he developed can scan leaves and categorise them into families, leading to a better understanding of where the more than 200,000 species of flowering plant that grown on earth today have come from.

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