We are pleased to announce the Wildbook software release v.2021-05-31,
which is reflected in the Flukebook.org platform for cetacean photo ID.
For an overview of Flukebook's multi-species, multi-modal machine learning for photo ID, please see:
Community support for Wildbook is provided at:
Release notes for May 2021
Flukebook Updates
- Added new locations in the Atlantic Ocean and Hawaii.
- Improved algorithms for gray whale computer vision have been deployed for performance testing
Bug Fixes
- WB-1671 Resolve submitter email issue
- WB-1634 Images no longer swapping width and height with annotation location.
- WB-1630 Conflict between projects and submissions has been resolved.
- WB-1626 Corrected “My data” restriction in match filtering.
- WB-1625 Corrected project filter in iaResults to include all project matches.
- WB-1601 Google maps renders GPS and ignores LocationID correctly.
- WB-1529 Flukebook projects display more than the IndoCet Opportunistic project.
**Wildbook-IA Release Notes (Machine Learning)**
The following updates were made to WBIA last month.
SAGE-40 Completed the AI extension for the MAPS project (general purpose, multi-species dorsal fin matching). Added bonus: works great for white shark individual ID too!
SAGE-293 Two new publications at CVPR workshop “CV 4 Animals” on 1) the continual ID curation problem and 2) CurvRank V2.
SAGE-304 New WBIA API for the background job engine allows job IDs to be specified instead of generating random UUIDs.
SAGE-310 Migrate WBIA codebase in GitHub to use the new “main” branch convention.
Bug Fixes
SAGE-292 Fix EXIF orientation parsing with OpenCV.
SAGE-309 Fix automated testing on CI for GitHub.
