Mobile application for Indonesian medicinal plants identification using Fuzzy Local Binary Pattern and Fuzzy Color Histogram

This research proposed a new mobile application based on Android operating system for identifying Indonesian medicinal plant images based on texture and color features of digital leaf images. In the experiments we used 51 species of Indonesian medicinal plants and each species consists of 48 images, so the total images used in this research are 2,448 images. This research investigates effectiveness of the fusion between the Fuzzy Local Binary Pattern (FLBP) and the Fuzzy Color Histogram (FCH) in order to identify medicinal plants. The FLBP method is used for extracting leaf image texture. The FCH method is used for extracting leaf image color. The fusion of FLBP and FCH is done by using Product Decision Rules (PDR) method. This research used Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) classifier for classifying medicinal plant species. The experimental results show that the fusion between FLBP and FCH can improve the average accuracy of medicinal plants identification. The accuracy of identification using fusion of FLBP and FCH is 74.51%. This application is very important to help people identifying and finding information about Indonesian medicinal plant.