Journal

Notes on building plant AI.

Apr 2026

Research

Why Transfer Learning Works So Well for Plant Classification

MobileNetV2 was pre-trained on ImageNet — 14 million images. That head start means our model already understands edges, textures, and shapes before seeing a single leaf.

4 min read

Apr 2026

Dataset

Inside the PlantVillage Dataset: 87,000 Leaves and What We Learned

PlantVillage is the backbone of our model. We explore the 38 classes, the augmentation strategy, and how class imbalance affects model confidence.

6 min read

Mar 2026

Technical

From Colab to Flask: Deploying a Keras Model as a REST API

Training in the cloud, serving locally. A practical walkthrough of exporting .h5 models and wrapping them in a Flask API that Next.js can call.

5 min read