Systematic Study on Different Methods Used for Identification and Classification of Plant Leaves

Plants can be recognized based on its different parts such as leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, roots etc. Plants are identified for different purposes. Wide varieties of plant species are available in nature. Botanists are research plants to classify plant species in the wild and take their benefits out. There is a lot of demand for identifying plant species manually or visually inspecting their characteristics, study their availability on various geographical locations to reap their benefits effectively. Based on the wide variety of flora available it is practically impossible to manually or visually classify, differentiate or record their features. Hence automated or computer aided methods are developed assisting botanists to accurately feature wise differentiate the plant species. The difficulties faced by a botanist are that some plants having the same characteristics require extra features to be identified. Automated plant identification helps common people to identify and use them having no professional prior knowledge about the plant. Plant identification is done in a variety of ways by researchers. The aim of this paper is to investigate and summarize a systematic study of various plant classification methodologies.