Bulk Import stuck in (or before) detection

If this is a bulk import report, send the spreadsheet to services@wildme.org with the email subject line matching your bug report

In which Wildbook did the issue occur? Internet of Turtles

What operating system were you using? (eg. MacOS 10.15.3)
MacOS 15.5 (24F74)

What web browser were you using? (eg. Chrome 79)
139.0.7258.128 (Official Build) (arm64)

What is your role on the site? (admin, researcher, etc)
Researcher

What happened?
I completed my upload and it appears that none of the encounters have been sent to detection - status bar copy below: Note that I did the import yesterday (8/21/25)

  • Data Import Status: complete
    Computer Vision Status: detection requests sent (0/42 complete). Each detection job in the queue is currently averaging a turnaround time of 1 minutes.

Refreshing results in seconds.*

What did you expect to happen? I expected the encounters to be sent in for detection

What are some steps we could take to reproduce the issue?
https://iot.wildbook.org/import.jsp?taskId=da272689-c7f2-4647-aeed-4cb3e13d03d9

Hi @GoBeach

The bulk import was submitted without the Encounter.genus and Encounter.specificEpithet columns populated populated. The machine learning queue depends on these fields to determine which models to run.

I would recommend deleting this bulk import and reimporting with these two columns populated.

Thank you,
Jason

Hi Jason,
I’ve uploaded my spreadsheet - it seems to be populated correctly for those columns

Encounter.genus Encounter.specificEpithet
Chelonia mydas

@jason I see the taxonomy on these encounters. Could this be an example of missed detections due to partially submerged turtles being underrepresented in the training data?

Thanks for sending your spreadsheet, by the way! I’ll need a little more time to get this import unstuck.

Thanks - appreciate the help!

Thanks for your patience! @jason was correct before; some of the encounters are missing the taxonomy and that’s why it’s not letting detection finish running. Rows 25-41 are the ones missing taxonomy, lat/long, and submitter ID.

I’m sorry I didn’t catch this sooner when I looked at your spreadsheet.

Edited to add: You’ll need to update your spreadsheet, delete the bulk import, and then upload your corrected spreadsheet.

Got it - my apologies to the team for having to chase one of my errors…

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