What happened?
I was looking through some encounters from a particular sighting and came across one that doesn’t appear to have an annotation associated with it, even though there are 3 annotations on the media asset
What did you expect to happen?
To see a green dotted line annotation in the thumbnail in the gallery to indicate which animal is the subject of the encounter record so that I can run matching
Ok, here’s what I’ve gleaned from conversations with Jason H and Jon:
A cloneWithoutAnnotations call is essentially the precursor to creating a new Encounter when detection finds two annotations in an image, with the second annotation then being added to the cloned, empty Encounter.
Cloning without annotations is not in itself an end goal, but rather a step in the process of acknowledging that two or more annotations were in an image handled by detection.
We suspect that what may have happened here is that the annotation that generated this cloned encounter was then later deleted, so we highly suspect that this is safe to delete.