Wildbook Release Notes - August 2021

Release notes for August 2021
Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last month.

Wildbook DOI for August release
To reference Wildbook in a publication, use the following DOIs:

  • Wildbook DOI: DOI
  • Related WBIA DOI: DOI

For all Wildbooks

  • Sighting/Occurrence search sorts user alphabetically.
  • Improved Sighting/Occurence comment behavior from bulk import.
  • IAResults correctly displays images that have been corrected with an orientation network.
  • Added additional metadata reports for bulk imports.
  • New locations for GiraffeSpotter and Spot-A-Shark USA.
  • New species for GiraffeSpotter and Leopard Shark.

GiraffeSpotter updates
Updated the GiraffeSpotter contact information.

Bug fixes

  • WB-1772: Corrected thumbnail orientation, which was impacted bounding boxes on encounters.
  • WB-1753: ACW - Country dropdown is alphabetized.
  • WB-1741: Collaboriations were causing database connections to leak, impacting memory.
  • WB-1731: IOT - Mixed species classes misassignment resolved to be properly mapped, improving match results returns.
  • WB-1730: Sequential naming for marked individuals made more robust for large catalogs.
  • WB-1727: Multiple attributes can be edited on an individual and encounter.
  • WB-1585: MantaMatcher - ID is preserved when re-drawing a candidate region.
  • WB-1560: Amphibian - Individual gallery has been restored.
  • WB-1538: Bulk import functionality restored on post-import validation screen.
  • WB-1536: Button UX improved when managing the identity metadata on an encounter.
  • WB-1456: Merged names displaying as appropriate.
  • WB-1274: Skunkbook - Encounter pages have been restored.
  • WB-605: Search results highlight in red when you need to request access to the object.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes
The following updates were made to WBIA last month.

  • SAGE-352: Export sperm whale dataset for human bounding box annotation.
  • SAGE-347: Fix GPU configuration error to enable sea dragon bounding box orientation.
  • SAGE-335: Sperm Whale ID report for CurvRank v2, Dynamic Time Warping, and the algorithms combined.
  • SAGE-320: Accept URL and detail fields on detection API calls.
  • SAGE-319: Added detection status to REST API callback response.
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