Are all the flowers the same? A Citizen Science mobile app for increasing awareness about insect pollinators

Abstract

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time. Biodiversity makes an essential contribution to both climate-change mitigation and adaptation. To this end, it is essential to protect insect pollinators that are responsible for the reproduction of over 80% of the world's flowering plants. To increase citizen awareness about the local flowers species and their attractiveness to wild pollinators, we designed a mobile app exploiting citizen science, AR, deep learning, and gamification. This short paper presents the design framework, the prototype, and some preliminary results of the deep learning performance. Finally, we conclude the paper with future work and directions.