Questions matching within a project & manual annotations

[Anastasia]

Hi @Hedaja, welcome!

@Hedaja

I am working through a bulk import right now. I started the matching from the project page to only match them against images in the project. I noticed that some images don’t complete the matching process. I looked into it and the automatic detection had failed on those images. After manually adding the annotation i started the match again.
Unfortunately they only seem to match against a very limited amount of images instead of against the whole project dataset. There is a total number of 507 images.
Generally I am confused by against what each image is matched against. Even the one that automatic detection worked, only match against 474 image.
Those images also were directly matched with both MewID and HotSpotter but when I start the match for
the once with manual annotation, it only uses HotSpotter

Can you post the link to the bulk import you’re referring to? It’ll be easier for me to answer your questions once I have that.

@Hedaja

What determines which images it gets matched against and what algorithm(s) are used?

Match candidates are determined based the Location ID, taxonomy, and viewpoint (the side of the animal the photo is of).

@Hedaja

I know that I can start a match manually from an encounter and set the algorithms there but then I can only match against images at a certain location or “my data” and not against a specific project.

From the match page, use the Project drop-down menu at the top of the page to select your project. This will display match candidates within that project.

@Hedaja

I also stumbled across some issues when doing the manual annotations. Besides the bug that annotation frames jump after creating them, I have the issue that if I want to redraw those frames, I seem to only have 2 options. Add another frame which will duplicate the encounter but it won’t have the original encounter name anymore (Encounter unsassigned) or I delete the existing annotation which results in the encounter loosing it image. The only way I could figure out how to redraw is to delete the image and upload it again.

Am I missing something?

If the same image exists on another encounter, removing the annotation won’t delete the image. I agree this isn’t intuitive or user-friendly, but it’s expected behavior.

The good news is that the latest Wildbook 10.6.0 release now lets users edit and reposition annotations. ARW is currently on Wildbook version 10.2.0 but is on track to receive an update in the next few months as we work to bring all Wildbooks on up to date.