AUTHOR=Figueroa-Flores Carola , San-Martin Pablo TITLE=Deep learning for Chilean native flora classification: a comparative analysis JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1211490 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2023.1211490 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=The limited availability of information on Chilean native flora has resulted in a lack of knowledge among the general public, and classifying these plants can be a challenging task without extensive expertise. Thankfully, advancements in image classification systems have made daily tasks easier for humans. This study aims to compare various Deep learning (DL) models for the task of classifying images of Chilean native flora. The models evaluated include InceptionV3, VGG19, ResNet152 and MobileNetV2 pre-trained on Imagenet. A dataset consisting of 500 images for each of the 10 classes of native flowers in Chile was created, resulting in a total of 5000 images.