I’m assisting Jemma Bezuidenhout from the University of Otago in New Zealand to onboard her project on sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) to Sharkbook.ai.
She’s working with baited underwater video images, so she is using top-down photos like this as the ID area:
I have manually annotated some initial trial encounters for her:
Sharkbook: Wildbook for Sharks (note for this one – I’ve added the annotation correctly, twice, but the green box doesn’t show correctly through the Encounter interface. Not sure what’s going on there.)
Can we ‘activate’ the matching algorithms for this species so she can test the system? Are there any other steps that need to be completed?
This species is already configured for identification. I started matches on your annotations and see match results coming back for this viewpoint.
This is a bug that was fixed in Wildbook 10.9. This update hasn’t rolled out to Sharkbook yet because the new encounter page design didn’t include a link to spot mapping. I believe Sharkbook will get the 10.10 update when it is ready for release.
If you’re uploading encounters through a bulk import, you’ll want to include the MarkedIndividual.individualID field in your spreadsheet and put the individual IDs here.
If you’re uploading encounters individually from the Report an Encounter page, then you’ll open the encounter after you upload it and click the edit icon in the Identity section of the encounter page to add its ID.
