{"id":3830,"date":"2015-05-09T18:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2015-08-09T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:39:12","slug":"a-floral-rainbow-annotated-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"A floral rainbow, annotated by Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I was walking to the library and I was struck by so many beautiful flowers along the way in people’s yards and gardens. I decided to collect a few and share them here. (Click for bigger versions of each.)<\/p>\n

Then I thought I would try out Google image search on each one to see if it could identify each flower by finding a match within the first 10 hits (in some cases I looked through many more than that, hoping to find a match, but it seems that if it isn’t in the first 10 then it isn’t going to find it).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2007\"<\/a>
\nRed passion flower. Google: failure (not found in the top 10 hits).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2011\"<\/a>
\nCalifornia poppy. Google: hit #5. Success!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2015\"<\/a>
\nOrange lily. Google: hit #1!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2014\"<\/a>
\nProbably some kind of daisy. Google: could not find an exact match.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2012\"<\/a>
\nGoogle: failure. Closest match is a “balloon flower”<\/a> which has pointy petals (these are rounded).<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2010\"<\/a>
\nGoogle: failure. I think their image search is only looking at color distributions rather than shape features. Object identification is hard! (Does anyone know what this is?)<\/p>\n

\"IMG_2008\"<\/a>
\nCape mallow (or some other kind of mallow). Google: hit #10. Barely snuck it in there!<\/p>\n

Google score: 4 of 7. I guess we still need flower identification handbooks. And humans! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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