FloraSense

🌿 Sisigoks/FloraSense

FloraSense is a fine-tuned Vision Transformer (ViT) model designed for accurate classification of plant species and flora-related imagery. It builds on top of the powerful google/vit-base-patch16-224 base model and is fine-tuned on the Planter_GARDEN_EDITION dataset curated by Sisigoks, which includes over 10,000 diverse plant images.

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🧠 Model Description

• Architecture: Vision Transformer (ViT)
• Base Model: google/vit-base-patch16-224
• Task: Image Classification
• Use Case: Automated plant and flora species recognition in digital botany, garden classification systems, plant care apps, biodiversity projects, and educational tools.

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📊 Model Performance

• Evaluation Accuracy: 35.46%
• Evaluation Loss: 4.2894
• Epochs Trained: 10
• Evaluation Speed:
  • 33.9 samples/sec
  • 2.12 steps/sec

⚠️ While the accuracy may appear moderate, the model is handling over 10,000 highly similar plant species, making this a non-trivial challenge in fine-grained classification.

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🧪 Training Procedure

• Framework: PyTorch
• Libraries: Transformers 4.45.1, Datasets 3.0.1, Tokenizers 0.20.0

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📚 Dataset

• Name: Sisigoks/Planter_GARDEN_EDITION
• Type: Image Classification
• Language: English
• Scope: Over 10,000 unique plant and floral species
• Format: Real-world garden and nature photography
• Use Case: Realistic and diverse training scenarios for classification models

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✅ Intended Use

Use Cases

• Botanical image recognition apps
• Educational tools for students and researchers
• Smart gardening & plant care solutions
• Field-use flora identification via AR and mobile apps

Target Users

• Botanists
• AI and ML researchers
• Gardeners and farmers
• Biology educators and students

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⚠️ Limitations

• May confuse visually similar species due to fine-grained class diversity.
• Performance could degrade in poor lighting or occlusion-heavy environments.
• Biases may exist based on the geographic scope of the dataset (e.g., underrepresentation of tropical or rare plants).

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🔐 Ethical Considerations

• Accuracy: Misclassification of medicinal/toxic plants can have real-world safety implications.
• Bias: Regional, lighting, or season-specific training data may skew predictions in certain environments.
• Usage: This is a research-grade model and should not be relied on for critical decisions without expert validation.

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🚀 How to Use

from transformers import AutoImageProcessor, AutoModelForImageClassification
from PIL import Image
import torch

# Load model and processor
processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained("Sisigoks/FloraSense")
model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained("Sisigoks/FloraSense")

# Load and preprocess image
image = Image.open("your_image.jpg")
inputs = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt")

# Inference
with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)
    logits = outputs.logits
    predicted_label = logits.argmax(-1).item()

print(f"Predicted class ID: {predicted_label}")

📄 Citation

If you use this model or dataset in your work, please cite:

  @misc{sisigoks_florasense_2025,
    author = {Sisigoks},
    title = {FloraSense: ViT-based Fine-Grained Plant Classifier},
    year = {2025},
    publisher = {Hugging Face},
    howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/Sisigoks/FloraSense}}
  }

🙌 Acknowledgements

• Hugging Face 🤗 – for providing the model and dataset hosting infrastructure.
• Google Research – for the original ViT architecture that enabled scalable vision transformers.