Hi, I know that the MiewID detection will create clones, but I wondered if it can be disabled on this species Carcharias taurus since it just creates more noise than help. It clones faces of other sharks, fins, tails and its really unhelpful for this species. Can you look into whether it can be disabled?
When I have a photo of multiple sharks I already try my best to upload multiple times so I really dont want or need clones.
MiewID is just the matching AI model. It doesn’t clone encounters or create the bounding boxes. That is handled by a custom AI detector model for the species.
We can definitely retune it or turn the detector off if it is causing too many false positives and clones. Can you send some examples so I can look at whether retuning, retraining, or disabling it would be better?
Thank you,
Jason
Hi Jason
Since Im the main one using this species in the database, I can say its almost always unhelpful clones, but happy for you to have a look at it. The clones are nearly always of Fins/tails/secondary sharks in the background. But for this species, unless we can see the spots on the shark, we will not be able to identify the shark and so I am concerned that clones are just flooding the database with more bad images.
If you check these out they are all examples of unnecessary/unhelpful clones:
Keen to hear your thoughts 