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Wild Me's first product, Wildbook supports researchers by allowing collaboration across the globe and automation of photo ID matching

10.1.0

3 weeks ago

DOI Release date: April 26, 2024

What's Changed

New Contributors

Partner Thanks

  • BOEM support in the UX research that led to match result and bulk import updates
  • OSU support of updates to genetics functionality
  • T4C development contributions for the WildEx Image Exporter and Timeout alert features

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WildMeOrg/Wildbook/compare/10.0.0...10.1.0

10.0.0

2 months ago

DOI

Release Date: February 29, 2024 Note: Semantic versioning skips to 10.0.0 in an effort to account for non-standard release names/tags. Semantic versioning will continue from 10.0.0 going forward.

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WildMeOrg/Wildbook/compare/2023-04-01...10.0.0

2023-04-01

1 year ago

Release notes for April 2023

Wild Me brings you support for additional species in Wildbook, new machine learning, greater stability for Wildbook Image Analysis (WBIA), and many other improvements across our products.

Wildbook Updates

  • New species added to Wildbooks:

    • Southern tiger cats (Leopardus guttulus) are now supported in Whiskerbook. This experiment cross-applied ML.
    • Spotted seals (Phoca largha) are now supported in Seal Codex.
    • Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) have new machine learning (ML) detection in Sharkbook.

  • New Pose Invariant Embeddings (PIE) v2 algorithm has been developed for new individual identification of these species:

    • Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Flukebook.
    • Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) in Flukebook.

  • New study sites added to Whiskerbook, GiraffeSpotter, Flukebook, GrouperSpotter, and Seal Codex.

  • Exception handling in MetricsBot is improved.

  • Page mappings are improved for greater security following a review of Wildbook security.

Wildbook Bug Fixes

  • Database connection handling for ID jobs is improved for greater stability.
  • Encounter and Individual Search now display matching haplotypes in the key consistently.
  • When importing individuals with multiple names/IDs, name fields can now be left empty in the bulk import spreadsheet.
  • Names on individual profile pages can now include special characters.
  • The latest end-of-day time option is corrected to 23:59 for searching Encounters by date.

Wildbook Image Analysis (WBIA) Updates

Bug Fixes

  • Synchronization of classes between Wildbook and WBIA for ML model cross-application is improved, bringing you a more stable database and more useful match results.
  • Nightly builds in WBIA are uninterrupted with improved build dependencies.
  • WBIA interface configuration fixes have been made in Codex, especially spatial verification for zebras and seals.

Codex Updates

  • PATCH API has improved handling.

Bug Fixes

  • Individuals can now only be merged with other Individuals.

2022-11-04_release

1 year ago

Release notes for September and October 2022 Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last few months. Codex notes are posted with each software release. Wildbook and WBIA are added at the end of the month.

Codex 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 Release Notes

  • To simplify development and improve database stability, we have removed the Ecological Data Module from Codex.
  • Reworked collaborations based on user feedback:
    • Improved messaging in collaboration notifications.
    • Added additional collaboration notifications.
    • Improved user manager's ability to manage collaborations.
    • Improved visibility into users available for collaboration.
    • Improved visibility into collaboration state.
  • "Merge complete" email sends consistently; messaging is updated.
  • Improved understandability of re-run ID options for systems with more than one ID option.
  • Improved legibility of traces throughout Sage-interfacing modules.
  • Simplified permissions by removing data manager role; functions of role are now encompassed by admin role.
  • Cluster annotations into a single animal when reporting a single animal sighting.
  • Added latlong custom field support.
  • Enforce mandatory Region in all new sightings.

Codex Bug Fixes

  • DEX-1463: Removed hardcoded status in the AssetGroup pipeline, reducing confusion while debugging.
  • DEX-1456: Improved error messages on PATCH functions.
  • DEX-1448: Users prevented from deleting required time fields on submission.
  • DEX-1454: Custom dropdown fields respected Required status.
  • DEX-1439: User is blocked from deleting email associated with account.
  • DEX-1354: In site configuration, species deletion is respected.
  • DEX-1313: Extended timeout and prevented crashing for species management.

Wildbook Updates Bulk import detections must process completely before being sent to identification, improving queue times and matching accuracy.

Individual Wildbook Updates

  • New locations have been added on SeadragonSearch, Flukebook, and GiraffeSpotter.

Wildbook Bug Fixes

  • WB-1956: SeadragonSearch can successfully provide Others to Inform on submission.
  • WB-537: Genetic information successfully blocks submissions without all required fields.
  • WB-538: Genetic information retains state when other fields are edited.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes

  • Flukebook now supports fin whale identification using a trained PIE model.
  • Flukebook now supports a new ID algorithm that ensembles HotSpotter and PIE results for gray whales, creating an ID prediction based on the best of each algorithm's results.

2022-08-31-release

1 year ago

Release notes for August 2022 Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last month. Codex notes are posted with each software release. Wildbook and WBIA are added at the end of the month.

Codex Release Notes There are no updates to Codex this month.

All Wildbook Updates

  • Researchers now have the ability to resend bulk imports to ID.
  • New locations have been added on IoT and MantaMatcher.

Wildbook Bug Fixes

  • WB-1989: Seadragon Search users can once again opt out of email notifications.
  • WB-1976: IoT's encounter search can be successfully exported again.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes

There are no updates to WBIA this month.

2022-07-31-release

1 year ago

Release notes for July 2022 Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last month. Codex notes are posted with each software release. Wildbook and WBIA are added at the end of the month.

Codex Updates

  • We have successfully migrated our zebra platform to zebra.wildme.org.

We have successfully migrated the WWF Norppagalleria Wildbook to Codex, now a general platform for seals. It can be seen at seals.wildme.org.

Developer changes

  • Support both Wildbook and Codex style naming conventions for APIs around Sightings and Individuals during transitional effort.
  • Stabilize and expand on swagger doc integration.
  • Remove dependency on the progress_[stage] objects so they can be depreciated.
  • Backend only - add support for autogenerated names at the species level.

Bug fixes:

  • DEX-1326: User setting page is now functional when displayed.
  • DEX-922: Corrected the scroll behavior in tables.

Individual Wildbook Updates

  • New study sites for Amphibian-Reptile Wildbook.
  • New study sites for Internet of Turtles.
  • New study sites for Seadragon Search.

Wildbook Bug Fixes

  • WB-1981: Encounter Search export has been restored on IOT.
  • WB-1969: Metrics are more accurate for the number of users.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes

There are no updates to WBIA this month.

2022-06-30-release

1 year ago

Release notes for June 2022 Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last month.

Software DOIs for June release To reference Wildbook in a publication, use the following DOIs:

Codex Updates

  • We have successfully migrated our zebra platform to zebra.wildme.org.

Wildbook Updates

  • ID can be re-run from bulk import.
  • The WBIA job queue status is now available in Wildbook.

Individual Wildbook Updates

  • New life stages are available on Amphibian.
  • Amphibian Contact Us link and header image have been updated.
  • New organizations are available on ACW.
  • Anonymous_ is no longer displayed in the ACW encounter list.
  • New species are available on GrouperSpotter.
  • Sea Bass now has a pdf user agreement available.

Wildbook Bug Fixes

  • WB-1971: Cloned encounters no longer get put in all projects.
  • WB-1968: Metrics are more accurate for the number of tasks per user.
  • WB-1962: Project links to tasks are consistent across algorithms.
  • WB-1949: Cloned encounters go into the same project as the originating encounter.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes

There are no updates to WBIA this month.

2022-05-31_release

1 year ago

Release notes for May 2022 Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last month.

Software DOIs for May release To reference Wildbook in a publication, use the following DOIs:

  • Codex DOI:
  • Wildbook DOI: DOI
  • Related WBIA DOI: DOI

Codex Release! We are excited to announce that we have released our new software, Wild Me Codex. Over the coming months, we will be migrating existing Wildbook platforms over as new functionality is added and improved on.

Wildbook Updates

  • African Carnivore now uses HotSpotter for face recognition of lions.
  • SeadragonSearch has expanded their supported locations.
  • GiraffeSpotter now leverages silo security.
  • Flukebook database migration freed up storage space.

Bug Fixes

  • WB-1965: Visual Matcher is more stable.
  • WB-1961: Individual Search displays haplotype color codes on maps.
  • WB-1930: Individual page display corrected for non-logged-in users.
  • WB-1848: Bulk import is no longer interrupted if new import from same user begins.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes There are no updates to WBIA this month.

2022-05-01

2 years ago

Release notes for March and April 2022

Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last two months.

Wildbook community updates

  • New locations have been added to Flukebook, Amphibian, and GiraffeSpotter.
  • Hyenas have been added to Whiskerbook.
  • Lions have been added to ACW
  • Projects have been updated to reflect user feedback, including sortability and visibility of sightings.
  • Bulk import now displays information about queue times.
  • Start Match, from the encounter page, now shows information about the queue times.
  • GiraffeSpotter has improved prefix digit padding.

Bug fixes

  • WB-1959: Restored the ability to set individual ID on unmatched Encounters.
  • WB-1947: Links to match results from projects now go to the correct matches.
  • WB-1941: Project links to matching results now tied to the appropriate encounter rather than the associated bulk import.
  • WB-1933: Sharkbook is now more stable.
  • WB-1910: Recaptcha has been restored on Lynx Wildbook. *WB-1909: Bugs have been addressed in the SOCPROG and CAPTURE export formats.

Wildbook-IA Release Notes

The following updates were made to WBIA last month:

  • SAGE-444: Added PIE V2 support for lion faces, allowing automated matching for baseline comparisons.
  • SAGE-503: Investigate train/validation split correctness with the PIE V2 algorithm.
  • SAGE-489: Publish all WBIA plugins on PyPI.
  • SAGE-432: All Azure-based ML APIs have been migrated to on-premises hardware.

2022-02-28_Release

2 years ago

Release notes for February 2022 Hey everyone! Here are the details of the major work completed over the last month.

Zebra updates

  • Measurements cascaded from the VM to the repo.

Giraffespotter updates

  • Added new location IDs.

Amphibian and reptile updates

  • Added new location IDs.
  • Added new species, yellow bellied toads.

Flukebook updates

  • Humpback co-occurences linked appropriately.
  • Add gray whale populations as social units.

Bug Fixes

  • WB-1929: Resolved exceptions that cause leaks from the logs associated with iaResults.
  • WB-1928: Bulk imports now lists the correct number of media assets in each task.
  • WB-1925: Query cache is turned on for amphibian wildbook.
  • WB-1923: Viewpoints are available for manual annotaiton for amphibian wildbook.
  • WB-1922: Bulk import page is now sorting the entire table by date.
  • WB-1917: Social display is now accounting for all co-occurrences.
  • WB-1916: Bulk imports no longer faling randomly.
  • WB-1912: iaResults is now filtering by project correctly on Flukebook.
  • WB-1799: Sighting export no longer breaking with an error on ACW.
  • WB-1780: Prevent error from displaying with old match candidates.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/WildMeOrg/Wildbook/compare/5.4.0...2022-02-28_Release