Recognition of medicinal plants based on its leaf features

Abstract

Ayurveda is one of the oldest forms of medicine, and the use of medicinal plants is a crucial aspect in Ayurvedic treatment. In this paper, we develop an automated system to identify the vast number of medicinal plants relevant for Ayurveda. We focus on the use of image processing and pattern recognition algorithms for plant identification. A unique feature identifier is computed, and this feature algorithm is tested on ten different medicinal plants for accurate identification. The main result in this paper is a demonstration that the features attributed to the leaf of each plant are Gaussian distributed.