Medicinal Herbs Identification

Many rural communities have a strong belief in plant diversity. They collect useful plants and herbs and use them with indigenous knowledge and customs. One such oldest system that results in the use of medicinal herbs is Ayurveda. Approximately 10,000 plants are used medicinally in India, but not all plants are included in the official Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia. Before becoming part of Ayurvedic medicine, all plants need to be thoroughly studied. For this reason, identifying herbs is the most important step. Many of these identifications are fully supported by human perception, leaving room for error and misjudgement. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an efficient system using computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing algorithms alongside the availability of various combinations of feature detection methods with different classifiers that are often utilized in building an automatic identification system for herbal leaves using leaf images and reveal its associated information to realize knowledge.