We are pleased to announce the Wildbook software release v.2021-06-30,
which is reflected in the Flukebook.org platform for cetacean photo ID.

 Wildbook DOI: 
10.5281/zenodo.5093667

 Wildbook Image Analysis (WBIA): 
10.5281/zenodo.4784646

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:

https://community.wildme.org

Release Notes for June 2021

Flukebook Release Notes

IndoCet custom import form has been updated.

- WB-1696: EXIF rotation in IA results is now more consistent.

 - WB-1691: Hierarchical matching job tasks are now correctly associating with annotations

- WB-1687: Manual annotations species are getting the needed reference IDs for MediaAssets and Annotations for the catalog to build correctly

- WB-1672: Bulk imports can be deleted.

- WB-1665: Users are informed of query with no match-against set when filters reduce potential match candidates to 0

 - WB-1648: Single-asset uploads handle special characters.

 - WB-1632: Manual annotation no longer shrinks and offsets the annotation display.

 - WB-1593: Country database field propogates to cloned encounters.

 - WB-1580: Usernames can be updated by admins and the account retain access to owned encounters.

 - WB-1568: Sightings search by species has several fields fixed and improved.

 - WB-1519: IA Results are correctly filtering by project again.

 - WB-1505: Match results take the user to the correct annotation. 

 - WB-1455: Manual annotation page now handles image filename paths with unsupported characters.

 - WB-1392: Manual annotation tool correctly displays existing annotations.

 - WB-775: Bulk import processes special characters.
 
- WB-668: Required fields in manual submissions have been clarified.

- Computer vision support for Indopacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) added

Wildbook-IA Release Notes (Computer Vision and Machine Learning)

The following updates were made to WBIA last month.

- SAGE-293: Presented two posters at CVPR workshop “CV 4 Animals” on 1) the continual ID curation problem and 2) CurvRank V2
 
- SAGE-20: New CurvRank V2 and PIE V2 support for gray whales added to WBIA and deployed to Flukebook 

Jason Holmberg (he/him/his)

Executive Director, Wild Me <https://www.wildme.org/>

A.I. and humans combating extinction together.