We Developed a FREE App to Help You Identify Mushrooms (Just Upload Your Photos!)

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  • @loraberg1332
    @loraberg1332 5 років тому +9

    I am you 3rd very grateful subscriber. You and your wife are ingenious! Thank you!

  • @jimeko82
    @jimeko82 5 років тому +34

    Thanks for sharing your passion and making it more accessible to others.

  • @notyrmom5698
    @notyrmom5698 5 років тому +4

    Many thanks to you and your wife. You are truly kind and amazing people!!! I will be sharing with all my friends. :)

  • @swallowtail131
    @swallowtail131 5 років тому +5

    That ID app was incredible, I knew what species of fungi they were so tested it Amanita pantherina (rare for Britain) and Agaricus arvensis (Common for Britain)...both ID's were spot on. Thank you so much for spending so many hours creating it, so very helpful. Knowledge is the key to safe foraging, the more we can learn the safer we can be. I will be recommending this app to all my keen mushroom foragers that I teach as one of many tools they can use for identification.

  •  5 років тому +27

    Suprisingly accurate, I’m impressed! This is my new first-look method of identification! You’ve done the world of mycology a great deed.

  • @phantomhawk01
    @phantomhawk01 4 роки тому +1

    I have been using this online app this season, its amazing and I only just came across your your UA-cam channel, I didn't know it was you guys who built it. Bravo and thank you.

  • @camperspecial9666
    @camperspecial9666 5 років тому +15

    I'm very excited to try out this new tool. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this helpful guide.

  • @smellycat249
    @smellycat249 4 роки тому +1

    this is gonna change a ton! I've been taking pictures for future ID and now i just popped one in your website and it worked!!! km so impressed, thank you so much for your time and effort in such an amazing tool!!!!!!!

  • @valleahtraversie1736
    @valleahtraversie1736 5 років тому +5

    Spectacular! The website is even more likely to steer me in the right direction without having to be an expert photographer than the other app I use run by iNaturalist. Thank you for all your hard work.

  • @ASMRGRATITUDE
    @ASMRGRATITUDE 5 років тому +7

    Oh my goodness. I've been looking for something like this for years. Thank you so much. I've learned so much from your videos!

  • @MrGoosePit
    @MrGoosePit 5 років тому +1

    Great to see you again. This is really awesome! Can't wait to try it out. Thanks for all the time and effort you and your wife put into fungusid!

    • @MrGoosePit
      @MrGoosePit 5 років тому +1

      I just tried the AI application. I love it! Made a donation. Thanks! -Kevin S.

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому

      @@MrGoosePit glad it works for you, and thank you for supporting us Kevin!

  • @zombiefied78
    @zombiefied78 5 років тому +3

    So awesome!! Thank you very much Old Man of the Woods and to your wife for all of your research and for creating and making this great website available! I can't wait to start using it! :D

  • @irenegrijalvotarres
    @irenegrijalvotarres 5 років тому +8

    This is an absolutely priceless resource, thank you so much for all your hard work!!

  • @googm
    @googm 2 роки тому

    the expert labelling makes all the difference! i had to not only label but annotate a few thousand clothing images to transfer-learn one of those big object-detection networks put out by google and it's definitely a laborious process. thanks for sharing this tool!

  • @cameronbond8811
    @cameronbond8811 5 років тому +1

    Your AI tool worked exceptionally well first time.. Great Job I will email you a screenshot!

  • @johnsweeney8061
    @johnsweeney8061 5 років тому +2

    Thank you both for all your contributions.

  • @GrumpyGrunt
    @GrumpyGrunt 5 років тому +2

    Living in your same general zone, I look forward to trying out your new resource soon. Thank you and your wife for freely spending your time to give us this tool.

  • @onewaves7971
    @onewaves7971 5 років тому +2

    Thank you for sharing your expertise and for the hours you and your wife devote to encouraging mushrooms enthusiasts. I’m newly into fungus (in the UK) so this will be a great learning tool.

  • @donna460
    @donna460 5 років тому

    You and your wife are the best! So excited. Tried other ones in the past and they’re not very good or should I say accurate. I appreciate all your hard studies and knowledge that you have given to the world. You and your wife are a blessing. Thank you for serving humanity well. God bless you both❤️

  • @SeanNorsee
    @SeanNorsee 5 років тому +2

    This is so incredibly helpful! Thaaaaaank you :) I've been trying to identify the mushrooms around my home, to better understand the role they play in the ecology. I was progressing verrrrrry slowly, but this helps me get a huuuge head start on identifying!

  • @RyanCarpenter88iceris
    @RyanCarpenter88iceris 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for your website. It's a great tool for narrowing down my search for what I'm trying to identify.

  • @joffwall7820
    @joffwall7820 5 років тому +1

    Thank you both, for your love of mushrooms, your time in setting up this identification app and your sharing.

  • @cybersnap6072
    @cybersnap6072 5 років тому +2

    Wow, this is so cool! Your labor of love is greatly appreciated.

  • @loraberg1332
    @loraberg1332 5 років тому +6

    You and your Wife are ingenious! Thank you! I am very Grateful 🌟. New Star is Born 💫

  • @naruemonverspagen3442
    @naruemonverspagen3442 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much 😊 for this AI mushroom identification. You are so awesome. I love foraging for mushroom as well. Just found your Chanel and I did subscribe already. I am from Canada 🇨🇦

  • @smidgeonpigeon8243
    @smidgeonpigeon8243 4 роки тому

    Developing anything (especially from scratch) takes FOREVER so thank you both for your puntles hours and this labor of love to help forager hopefuls like me!

  • @brainentrainmentlibrarychannel

    WOW!!! All the work you have put in to your fungi endeavors!!!! Good job!!!!

  • @BambisRaine
    @BambisRaine 5 років тому +3

    This is really amazing. So greatful for this! Im really interested in learning all I can so I an be successful. I have a hard time learning in ways other than hands on. This is Perfect and I dont know how to thank you all for creating this! Mushroom groups on Facebook arent always the nicest. ♡

  • @swayback7375
    @swayback7375 4 роки тому

    You're so cool man!
    I just found this today, so I'll be trying it out, I'm pretty excited.
    Really nice of you to make this free and share your knowledge as well as time and energy doing this for free!
    I wish I could tell someone but no one I know cares about a mushroom, not even a little bit... I wish I could meet some ppl like you guys but I'm lucky for the internet so I can find all this great info.
    I had to teach myself to forage, the internet has been my teacher, that can be scary when you're talking about eating fungus, but I'm not an idiot and can use my skills of observation and attention to detail, and only puck something I'm sure about, but I need to learn the more difficult fungus, I leave alot of good mushrooms because I cant 100% ID them.
    This program should be a great tool to learn from and help to expand my knowledge!

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  4 роки тому

      yeah, there are lots of fun walking in the woods finding and identifying unknown mushrooms. If you are not at the right time and right location, you will never be able to encounter them. Glad to know you like what we are sharing. We are also learning and know how difficult it is to start learning wild mushrooms. hopefully our content will make everyone a little bit easier to take the first step:)

    • @swayback7375
      @swayback7375 4 роки тому +1

      @@OldManoftheWoods it took me about 10-15 years to take the first step, I didn't know what was safe or how to learn what was safe, or what's tasty !
      The internet fixed that for me but I still have so much to learn.
      This really seems like a great tool

    • @swayback7375
      @swayback7375 4 роки тому +1

      @@OldManoftheWoods also... fungusid.com said I was 53% chance old man of the woods, my wife immediately laughed and said "wow that thing has got you figured out!"
      No joke

  • @Kuroi733
    @Kuroi733 Рік тому +1

    I JUST SAW THE APP IS BACK UP! Will you guys be making videos again soon?

  • @sharongriffin342
    @sharongriffin342 5 років тому

    This is a tremendous idea. I downloaded an AI mushroom identifier app and it has gotten almost ALL of the identifications wrong. So disappointing! Also it helps to know that you and your wife are trustworthy sources. Thank you so very much!

  • @theschweet
    @theschweet 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for your hard work and efforts on making this site! Love your videos! The best mushroom foraging channel

  • @fcnyc
    @fcnyc 5 років тому +1

    Thanks so much. This must have taken a tremendous amount of work. Can't wait to try it.

  • @rossbluestein1437
    @rossbluestein1437 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much for this gift to the public.

    • @lindafrank221
      @lindafrank221 3 роки тому

      All thanks to @mycojakkie on IG for being genuine... You can always get your shrooms, LSD, dmt, chocolate bars and even growing kits.

  • @emc3000
    @emc3000 3 місяці тому

    This is such a brilliant tool. I have been getting so into computer vision I love this.

  • @julianlees1730
    @julianlees1730 5 років тому +1

    Informative and inspirational! Wishing you health and contentment. Kind regards from NW England and Indi thr Springer Spaniel.

  • @vizperiment1107
    @vizperiment1107 5 років тому +1

    Terrific - thank you! Love your videos!

  • @p1nesap
    @p1nesap 3 роки тому

    Fascinating look how you approach this AI project, using ImageNet, Python, G images. Wonderful team, you and your wife. Your skills must be in demand with many companies.

  • @brendan5232
    @brendan5232 5 років тому +1

    Welcome back!

  • @xull1x123
    @xull1x123 5 років тому +7

    This works really well. It has identified every mushroom image I tried correctly. Is there anyway to get an offline version of it? I would buy it in a heartbeat. A lot of the woods I explore have no internet. Thank you.

    • @electronicdawg
      @electronicdawg 4 роки тому

      The autobahn society make a really good pocket field guide found on amazon.com

  • @lilahngahere4274
    @lilahngahere4274 Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing. I can't wait to try your id site out. Do you do a comparison video with gallerina and laughing Gyms? With so many looking into alternatives, the above could be lethal.

  • @Geianise
    @Geianise 5 років тому +1

    This is fabulous! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing educational too with the community!!!

  • @FeralForaging
    @FeralForaging 5 років тому

    This is incredible, thank you for all of your work!

  • @natenate2758
    @natenate2758 5 років тому +1

    Do you utilize spore prints or bruise test and great info great video very good

  • @fishingcostarica
    @fishingcostarica 5 років тому +2

    Thank you sooo much. Love it. You guys are great.

  • @angelweber9407
    @angelweber9407 5 років тому

    Love it! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and that of your wife's. You are both much appreciated.

  • @ccap012
    @ccap012 5 років тому +1

    Amazing Job, thanks for sharing this tool, I'm not from the US, but I appreciate your work and effort

  • @OakandSpore
    @OakandSpore 5 років тому

    Awesome channel dude! I spend a lot of time on my own mushroom farm, and am trying to get Morel growing right now!

  • @HighlandHedgehogHomestead
    @HighlandHedgehogHomestead 5 років тому +1

    This looks like a really cool idea! I am excited to try it out. We are also in Maryland, up in Westminster although I work in Bethesda and Baltimore. Would love to go on a hunt with you some time!

  • @BlackDragon69XS
    @BlackDragon69XS 5 років тому +5

    Thank you so much for such a great tool. Your wife and You are the best!!!

  • @engizmo
    @engizmo 5 років тому +2

    Sounds like a fun project. Thanks for putting in the work and sharing. Why not open source it to get community contribution? Share it with mycologists and ask them to contribute images and assist in training. Maybe create a zooniverse project to help with training too.

  • @mushkamusic
    @mushkamusic 5 років тому +1

    @0:58 is that a little blue bruising there? :)

  • @Yourtoxicity
    @Yourtoxicity 5 років тому +1

    Great idea guys! I'm pretty new to mushroom foraging and I was looking for something better than the apps out there! Bummer though that I live in North Dakota, so this probably won't work for me :(
    Have you guys thought about opening this up to others on all the mushrooms forums out there? You could get at least a few regions probably :D that would be momentous, actually!

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому +1

      Try some out and let us know :) maybe in the future we will!

  • @grace1946
    @grace1946 2 роки тому

    Really appreciated recipes for mushrooms! Thanks!

  • @lidovicky
    @lidovicky 5 років тому +2

    Thank you for sharing with us! :)

  • @mangoandkiwisalad1473
    @mangoandkiwisalad1473 2 роки тому

    A couple of suggestions: 1) a phone based app that can identify mushrooms offline and 2) the ability to upload multiple images so you can capture the mushrooms environment, gills, stem, caps and maybe even cut in half and 3) both scientific and common names.

  • @JoJoVelasquez
    @JoJoVelasquez 5 років тому

    This is awesome!
    Maybe In the future you guys can provide this on mobile phones.

    • @JoJoVelasquez
      @JoJoVelasquez 5 років тому

      Through an app

    • @Neznisgip
      @Neznisgip 5 років тому +1

      I used my phone to ID several. It works great.

  • @TheBatesFunnyFarm
    @TheBatesFunnyFarm 5 років тому +1

    This is a great idea, thanks for sharing this with us.

  • @hanhaitao8794
    @hanhaitao8794 3 роки тому

    That's a great project. I noted the database is built for North America. How to fork another database for other continent like Australia?

    • @lindafrank221
      @lindafrank221 3 роки тому

      You gotta research first don't just take them. I got good recommendations from @mycojakkie on IG

  • @KendrickMan
    @KendrickMan 5 років тому +1

    Is there a way I can suggest common northeastern north american fungi to add to your database? I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. I can't contribute financially, but I'd love to help contribute more species to your database. I've been experimenting with this for about 2 hours now and I see a few additions that wouldn't be too hard to add to your list.
    1) I've noticed cantharellus lateritius is the only chanterelle ever suggested to me. C. cibarius could also be added without issue.
    2) Mushrooms tend to make up the majority of the fungi listed. Could lichens like Cladonia coccifera or Dibaeis baeomyces be added? or is that a little too complicated/small?
    3) every polypore I search comes up as ganoderma applanatum, including ganoderma tsugae. maybe more polypores need to be added? (Phellines igniarius, Fomitopsis pinicola, Fomitopsis betulina)
    4) Exidia nigricans comes up as exidia recisa, probably an easy fix from just adding the species to your list.
    5) I noticed Brefeldia maxima is on your list, which seems more complicated than I thought AI could figure out. if that's there, I believe Fuligo septica could work too.
    6) Suillus spraguei is different enough from the other boletales, a computer might not get tripped out by it.
    All this aside, FungusID genuinely helped me out with 2 IDs that have been in my 'mystery' folder for over a month. Thanks for all your hard work!

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому +1

      Great suggestion! I'd like to add your mentioned species and hopefully you will see them in our next upgrade. If you have large amount of positively identified mushroom images and would like to contribute, please feel free to email me :)

    • @KendrickMan
      @KendrickMan 5 років тому

      @@OldManoftheWoods I'll see what I can do ;) I have many photos, but only certain ones have been checked over by others. I'm getting ready for bed now, but I'll have at least some of the ones I mentioned sent to you by morning

  • @davidmorrisii69
    @davidmorrisii69 Рік тому +1

    Very nice, I would love to try it old man think u, I will investigate this immediately, I got to figure out this VPN first

  • @AJScraps
    @AJScraps 2 роки тому

    I really hope you can revive this website in the future, you are awesome!!!🍄📈

  • @rrpantalone
    @rrpantalone 5 років тому

    I have used your ID web page. Thank you, great job

  • @introducinga.p.h3049
    @introducinga.p.h3049 2 роки тому

    Thank you for making a ID for us to use and learn and grow

  • @thunderboltfarm7099
    @thunderboltfarm7099 5 років тому +1

    Excellent! Thank you for sharing.

  • @Thehumansmilyface
    @Thehumansmilyface 3 роки тому

    Been looking for something like this HUGE THANK YOU 🥺💓

  • @GaryWRose
    @GaryWRose 5 років тому

    great idea for starting the identification process

  • @SlippyDude
    @SlippyDude 5 років тому +1

    God bless you and your wife, mushroom brother.

  • @Simonjose7258
    @Simonjose7258 5 років тому +1

    You need to add more Panaeolus cinctulus. They're very common in lawns and your app is reading them as 'psilocybe semilanciata', then 'panaeolus papilionaceus' then 'foenisecii'...the latter are very common as well but are distinctly different. Cinctulus have a pruinose stipe, black spores, and often contain psilocin. (Edit: otherwise, F'ing Amazing! I'm going to continue using it. And donate when I can. 👍🏼)

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому

      will add it in the next round upgrade. thanks for the suggestion!

  • @mooseandsquirellfriend
    @mooseandsquirellfriend 5 років тому

    I have a rough draft of a crowd sourcing concept to further classify and smooth out results if you're interested. It uses a combination of a 20 questions style learning base, consensus to support/validate/correct its results, and in the background would use factors like recent precipitation, ground/air temperature, and location to add or subtract how likely something is to match.

    • @mooseandsquirellfriend
      @mooseandsquirellfriend 5 років тому

      Also a few more suggestions.
      First, might be worth it to add jquery-cropper so people can crop out the specific mushroom they want to check, so they don't have to edit the photo before they upload it.
      Second, capture the hash of the analyzed image and check your database for that hash first so save on resources instead of processing the same image twice.
      Third, with the hashes, you can also index and give the hash a short unique id similar to youtube video ids and pastebin ids. You can use this so people can share the link, and even add a voting or name suggestion similar to mushroom observer.

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому

      Thanks for these great suggestions. I was thinking of the same regarding your first point, the prediction sure will be more accurate with more information. When I got more time! Currently I am using an external API to resize large images under 5MB. Didn’t know jquery-cropper before but that sounds like a cool feature to add. Fungusid does not have a DBMS now. Hope in the future we could have the resource to build one.

  • @richg9991
    @richg9991 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for your work!! I absolutely love it

  • @KendrickMan
    @KendrickMan 5 років тому

    Can't wait till you get it accurate enough to identify bolete mushrooms! I was expecting your issue to be in the fact that boletes are often differentiated on habitat/cap colour moreso than shape, so I tried a Boletus auripes picture (of the pore surface, with no cap visible)from my own album, and it listed 3 gilled mushrooms of all things :P
    The ones it did get right, it got right with 99% certainty. Although I can find flaws in the program, I've tried the shitty android apps you were referring to, and it does work better than any AI i've ever used before.

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому

      That could be one of the reason. Another challenge for our AI to identify certain boletes is lack of high-quality training data

  • @chir0pter
    @chir0pter 4 роки тому +1

    Dude this is so cool!

  • @afreeland99
    @afreeland99 5 років тому

    checked out your site...very impressive!

  • @marksfeir7615
    @marksfeir7615 3 роки тому

    🤩So cool! Have already used it and confirmed that the most likely suggested identification was almost definitely correct--Dryad's saddle

  • @psilenc4890
    @psilenc4890 5 років тому +1

    thank you for shareing knowledge.. EpiC!

  • @kongx.2031
    @kongx.2031 4 роки тому

    You guys are soooooo coooollll!!!! Great job!!!!

  • @alimackenzie2168
    @alimackenzie2168 5 років тому +1

    Excellent idea. Hope it works for you. I'm 0/2 so far but I was testing it on shrooms I haven't been able to identify myself and I'm in the French alps. Good hunting.

  • @wheeliam360
    @wheeliam360 5 років тому +9

    Awesome!Great assistance tool. Check and recheck and recheck and research again. All types of information very helpful. Thanks to you and your wife for your time and knowledge.👍

  • @glendavanstroe7708
    @glendavanstroe7708 3 роки тому

    First subscriber here Perth Australia

  • @TheDMTLover
    @TheDMTLover 2 роки тому

    This is very cool of you guys to have done this work. Your link does not work anymore. Where can we have access to it ? Maybe some of us could also participate in helping your AI to get better ? Many thanks.

  • @lehihi4167
    @lehihi4167 5 років тому +1

    woohoo!!! New vid 🙌🙌🙌

  • @pauljones754
    @pauljones754 2 роки тому

    Outstanding work! Thank you

  • @CrystalHartley
    @CrystalHartley Місяць тому

    I want to thank you for unleashing the knowledge of the fungi

  • @RS-ru5ds
    @RS-ru5ds 3 роки тому

    Thank You SOO MUCH! For your to e and effort to help educate us!!!

  • @godzillaburger9690
    @godzillaburger9690 5 років тому

    This is a wonderful site you and your wife have provided. Thank you very much! Do you have plans for an app, too? Cheers

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому

      not in the near future. our next plan is to refine the AI so that it can achieve higher accuracy and recognize more species

  • @MikeStinse
    @MikeStinse 3 роки тому

    have you thought about adding a location functionality to make the ID even more certain. as in, youre not likely to find a mushroom from australia growing in maine.

  • @headingoutside
    @headingoutside 5 років тому

    WOW! I can't wait to use your site.

  • @medusathecanecorso3465
    @medusathecanecorso3465 2 роки тому

    I live in south New Jersy...you are welcome to come visit. We have many different types of mushrooms in my back yard..I'm surrounded by wild cherry oak and sumerac and pine trees..I have an open area that mushrooms just grow in. And around the barks of the trees..I'm concerned because my dog died ingesting a group of mushrooms several months ago. Oue different types of mushrooms grow all through the seasons. So thank you very much..I will try to download your Ai on my phone. I think you will be happy to see all the different types of mushrooms I send pictures of!

  • @theoneandonly1983
    @theoneandonly1983 5 років тому +1

    You are a genius, Thank you

  • @riverbender9898
    @riverbender9898 Рік тому

    Thank you for all your efforts!

  • @Mote.
    @Mote. 3 роки тому

    This summer we got a ton of rain. So theres thousands of mushrooms. I took pictures of a lot. Theyre so fun to look at

  • @garycheatham9472
    @garycheatham9472 4 місяці тому

    Just what I needed a site too help I'd . I like to do research to learn myself but sometimes it takes days to get responses from some sites I've probably found 5 more by then I'm in the woods a lot and have gone mushroom headed lol

  • @dr.chrisstar3527
    @dr.chrisstar3527 2 роки тому

    It’s like having a cool friend to help!
    Will try someday soon!
    Take a bite and see what happens is ancient! Lol

  • @Ig88776
    @Ig88776 5 років тому

    Excellent work!! Would be useful if one could upload a few images to get better accuracy on Id. Got some good ids and turkey tail flunked (:

  • @roseideal2411
    @roseideal2411 5 років тому +1

    Hola R J
    Please continue educating us!
    I keep looking for more videos on mushrooms Identificacion
    Please create an Instagram account to post your photos and finding.

  • @mewieful
    @mewieful 5 років тому +1

    Thank you, I tried to use it with a mushroom I got positive ID from multiple ID forums but it didn't come up on yours. Maybe update Gymnopilus spectabilis photos/algorithm. I understand it won't always be 100% accurate.

  • @blackcrow9876
    @blackcrow9876 5 років тому

    this is awesome :) Which neural network did you use for this? I'm a webdeveloper with aspirations in AI, seems like a great way to start! Thanks a lot for sharing this with us!

    • @OldManoftheWoods
      @OldManoftheWoods  5 років тому +1

      The AI is built on a pretrained model resnext 50. If you are interested, you can easily find it on github. There are better architectures now but I don't have time to retrain the model.

    • @blackcrow9876
      @blackcrow9876 5 років тому

      @@OldManoftheWoods Thank you!

  • @Tara-sf7uu
    @Tara-sf7uu 5 років тому +1

    LOVE IT! Thank you thank you thank you!

  • @tody78able
    @tody78able 4 роки тому

    Humbly taking my hat off to you two🌹🍻🔥