Wildbook recognises background not animal

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In which Wildbook did the issue occur?
amphibian ans reptile
What operating system were you using? (eg. MacOS 10.15.3)
windows
What web browser were you using? (eg. Chrome 79)
chrome
What is your role on the site? (admin, researcher, etc)
admin
What happened?
i tried to match fire salamander adults. the software recognised the background (numbers) but not the animal https://tier2.dyn.wildme.io:5001/api/query/graph/match/thumb/?extern_reference=rxcxtizlslkrvmsx&query_annot_uuid=d56dd30d-6521-4cfa-873b-1d91e3acf8c5&database_annot_uuid=d614b012-ddb0-425f-94b5-77d05874600e&version=heatmask
Amphibian and Reptile Wildbook
What did you expect to happen?

What are some steps we could take to reproduce the issue?

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matching
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matching
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@Drew @parham is this a problem that background subtraction could solve?

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Not that close to the body. This is why we discourage uniform backgrounds generally. This is normal HotSpotter behavior.

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To add another data point, background subtraction will not completely eliminate a very strong background match, it simply makes it less confident. A strong background match (like the pixels of a black printed character 2 on a white background) can still sometimes outweigh a weak foreground match, even with background subtraction working perfectly.

As @jason said, this is normal HotSpotter behavior and hard to suppress without making the overall system less accurate.

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Ok, good to know, thanks!