Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login fogleman 15 hours ago | parent | context | favorite | on: iNaturalist strikes out on its own I reverse engineered their stuff a bit. I downloaded their Android APK and found a tensorflow lite model inside. I found that it accepts 299x299px RGB input and spits out probabilities/scores for about 25,000 species. The phylogenetic ranking is performed separately (outside of the model) based on thresholds (if it isn't confident enough about any species, it seems to only provide genus, family, etc.) They just have a CSV file that defines the taxonomic ranks of each species. I use it to automatically tag pictures that I take. I took up bird photography a few years ago and it's become a very serious hobby. I just run my Python script (which wraps their TF model) and it extracts JPG thumbnails from my RAW pho...