LankaLens โ AI Nature Explorer
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built ๐ฟ LankaLens โ AI Nature Explorer I built LankaLens, a mobile application that encourages people to put their phones down and explore the nature around them. The idea is simple: when you're walking, hiking, gardening, or exploring outdoors, you can take a photo of a plant, tree, flower, insect, orโฆ
LankaLens is a mobile application designed to encourage people to explore nature by taking photos of plants, trees, flowers, insects, and other parts of nature surrounding them. The app uses open-source AI to identify and explain what users find, providing short explanations and challenges for further exploration. The goal is to promote curiosity about nature while minimizing the need to use the app itself.
The app supports English, Sinhala, and Tamil languages and is designed for use in places with unreliable internet connectivity. The project is built around the concept of AI working for the outdoor experience rather than becoming the experience, with a focus on local-first AI and open-source models that can be replaced or upgraded without rebuilding the entire application.
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