Pattern Recognition and Classification of Herbal Plants Using Leaf Images

Abstract

Healing by using medicinal plants is old method of treatment. Natural products derived from plants for the treatment of diseases have proved that there is no existence of life without plants. Plants are essential foundation of medicine.  Ayurvedic treatments are used by people all over the world for centuries. These treatments are made by using parts of medicine plants or herbal species. The use of herbs is incredibly important for human and animals. The use of herbal medicines has many advantages compared to pharmaceutical products, such as reduce risk of side effects, lower cost, large availability and it also very effective in chronic conditions. So the Researches and utilization of herbal medicine in the treatment of diseases increased every day.  But herbs are very similar in their shape, color and texture. So it is difficult to a normal people to identify the herbs. if there are no proper training, there may be chances to misidentification, it may leads to serious problems. So identification of the herbs is digitally challenging object for better classification. In this paper we present the current methods for plant identification, using leaf images.