Sealbook not suggesting popular individuals

What Wildbook are you working in?
Sealbook

What is the entire URL out of the browser, exactly where the error occurred?
Included in description

Can you describe what the issue is you’re experiencing?

We have a a few very popular seals in our project and often they do not show up in the top 12 most likely matches, even though some many of our photos are virtually identical to reference photos.(these are just a selection I would say this error occcurs more than 65% of the time)

Nov 5
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=eb8c50ee-d25b-4fa0-89b1-dcc703b46c47&projectIdPrefix=Squamish

Nov 4
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=cf75888d-c0cf-40dd-8763-a53817021b90&projectIdPrefix=Squamish

Oct 31
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=8d5af002-a816-4dff-ac0c-5c9c015ce6c7&projectIdPrefix=Squamish

Sept 25
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=f10da96e-86f4-4bad-b732-8b0ddb98bc4a&projectIdPrefix=Squamish

Sept 29
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=d1a973f5-79ce-428d-9038-ba9c1d814487&projectIdPrefix=Squamish

Additionally, when running matches looking for more examples we have found that the correct individual is not recommended if Howe Sound is selected in the project selector, but is a top match when no project is selected.

Sept 1 - no project selected
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=bc589aa0-273a-404f-8d6d-382ee4c99559&projectIdPrefix=None%20Selected

Sept 1 selecting just for our project (howe sound RHS3 was not even suggested)
https://seals.wildme.org/iaResults.jsp?taskId=bc589aa0-273a-404f-8d6d-382ee4c99559&projectIdPrefix=Squamish

Can you provide steps on how to reproduce what you’re experiencing?

  • submit new encounter, fill out necessary data
  • on new encounter page remove any annotations besides the heads where they are above water
  • on the best photo that shows the most key features create a new annotation and run a match on that
  • Choose Criteria to match against window:
    ----------location: US Pacific
    ----------select only “my data”, use hotspotter and MiewID
  • Press match
  • On match page: project selector - select “Howe Sound”

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

When I remove the project selection and see the top match candidate for RHS3, that encounter does not appear to be in the Howe Sound project, which would be why it doesn’t appear as a candidate when you select the Howe Sound project.

Ditto above. The top match for RHS3 when I remove the project restriction points to an encounter that’s not in the Howe Sound project.

Same thing. The top match is from the same encounter I cited for Nov 5.

The top match for RHS3 is from an encounter that’s also not in the project.

The top candidate is from the same encounter I linked for Sept 25.

When you upload new encounters and you know they will be part of a project, make sure to use the Report an Encounter (Classic) option from the Submit menu. This form has more fields available than the standard submission form and allows you to select a project to add it to before uploading.

Adding existing encounters to a project involves a few more steps outlined in our help docs and should help you get the missing encounters from your project accounted for: Projects — Wildbook documentation

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