Is there any way for us to flag recurrent or common problems with the AI ID? Quite a few Melaleuca (Bottlebrushes - Myrtaceae) are being identified as Banksia ericifolia (Proteaceae): even though they dont look much alike, although the AI seems to think that they do. ((on second thoughts, perhaps…

Are you requesting a warning flag on taxon pages for taxa that have computer vision identifications that are frequently manually corrected? A label on IDs? Or are you asking for a way to manually flag taxa that get misIDed frequently to alert other identifiers? (Or something else?) What are the sho…

I am requesting a way of being able to add a flag when as an identifier I note a common recurring misidentification that should not be occurring. Not an ambiguous or understandable one (such as indistinguishable species, or user confusion) - one most likely due to bad training or inadequate materia…

I can ask our computer vision team about this.

I wonder if something like this could be done just based on ID statistics already in the data? Analyze how often CV identifications end up not being the community ID for each taxon in CV, pick a threshold along the resulting “bell curve” (or whatever shape it manifests), and “flag” in some way(s) t…

As you say, this should be in the data already. ie, 51% chance it’s this, 49% it’s that, between the two similar organisms. It shouldn’t be too hard to detect and flag those situations. That is even without taking into account the eventual Community ID. As usual, the devil is in the details. What ar…

@mtank - One simple and unobtrusive way you could make the confidence data available would be to add it as a title attribute to the “Visually similar” span in the suggestion interface, so that if someone hovered over it, it would show “89% confidence” or whatever: <span class="subtitle vision" titl…

I love the idea of seeing some indication of certainty from the computer vision. I am often amazed at how well it does, and occasionally amused at how poorly. when entering observations I routinely ID with a suggestion even when I know what the species is, occasionally I see it getting the result …

[image] zygy: One simple and unobtrusive way you could make the confidence data available would be to add it as a title attribute to the “Visually similar” span in the suggestion interface [image] agmcmll: I love the idea of seeing some indication of certainty from the computer vision. …

I checked with the staff on this one and it doesn’t look like they’re going to move forward with adding a different kind of flag or alert system for computer vision training errors. I’d recommend adding species here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-vision-clean-up-wiki/7281 (deprecated) and…

Add a flag for frequent computer vision identification errors

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Add a flag for frequent computer vision identification errors

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