We are pleased to announce the Wildbook software release v.2021-10-28,
which is reflected in the Flukebook.org platform for cetacean photo ID. Highlights include new machine learning detection and individual ID algorithms for sperm whales, as well as usability improvements in project and bulk import functionality.

Wildbook DOI: 

Wildbook Image Analaysis (WBIA) DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5518146

For an overview of Flukebook's multi-species, multi-modal machine learning
for photo ID, please see:

https://docs.wildme.org/docs/researchers/ia_pipeline

Community support for Wildbook is provided at:



NEW DEVELOPMENTS

SAGE-351: New, machine learning-based sperm whale fluke ID algorithm added using PIE V2 (triplet loss network). 

- New sperm whale fluke detector and related detection pipeline models, including orientation network support.

Data integrity checks now include a check for viewpoint = null on annotations

- Bulk import now handles and displays progress of acmID registration of uploaded images

Bulk import review page improvements have been made.

Social relationships and co-occurrence diagrams and tables now load faster.

WB-1785: Project matching has improved user feedback regarding IA status.

- Established a default setting for new Wildbook users to not receive email alerts.

- Measurements now available for standard export.

- Collaborations expanded to include public data for non-silo communities.

- Org admins can add managing researchers to encounters.



BUG FIXES

WB-1854: Encounter Search mark-recapture search includes capture sessions that occur on the same day as the session end time.

WB-1808: The “Add to existing individual ID” function no longer has an unneeded dependency on the ShowTaxonomy configuration option.

 - SAGE-391: Background subtraction failing with new model files exported with NumPy float64 data type

 - SAGE-386: Background subtraction added missing support for bottlenose_dolphin+fin_dorsal

- WB-1781: User can now self-edit email addresses.

- WB-1740: Dates on images in match results now reflect user-provided dates rather than exif.

- WB-1479: Scroll wheel actions work with search results tables.






Jason Holmberg (he/him/his)

Executive Director, Wild Me

A.I. and humans combating extinction together.