Visual matcher - not working? not sure

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Hi @ACWadmin1,

Visual Matcher is not likely a as you good choice for social species. Under the covers, it is a limited Encounter Search that displays each Encounter as a result row filed with its photos (not annotations). It also does not use the photo keywords for dog color but rather values from the legacy Encounter.patterningCode database field.

In less social species, where there is generally one animal per image, this tool still holds some value (e.g., MantaMatcher.org). But for social species and those benefiting from ML-based detection, an entirely new visual matcher is being built to add more search filters (e.g., photo keywords) and focus the eye on annotations.

Thanks,
Jason

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Thanks Jason. It’s good to understand that we shouldn’t bother with Visual Matcher for our social species until the new version comes around. I could see that new version being popular with some researchers who would like to be able to do that themselves.

cheers
M