On this forum, I have read and I was told that there is no open API to the CV model (e.g., this answer ; however, the same person also stated in the same thread that this is something they are talking and thinking about and the thread is already three years old, so I think it is reasonable to raise …

further info from staff: [image] iNaturalist API species from photograph The API that gives species suggestions based on visual similarity is not publicly available. We have allowed a small number of select individuals/organizations fee-based access for research or use in other citizen science a…

was it really necessary to create this thread? you already have two other threads that cover basically the same subject: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/testing-the-computer-vision-capabilities-what-are-valid-practices/41354 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-there-some-api-identification-request-…

Well, I guess I did not define the issues clearly in each of these threads, so there is some overlap. However, the core questions/issues are somewhat different, as I gained more information/a better understanding of how my questions can be misinterpreted and refined my questions accordingly. htt…

Thank you. Well, I have seen this post and sent an email. However, I did not get any response and, since this answer was also already two years old, how would I know if the author is still the contact person for these requests? It appears things have been developing at iNat and old forum posts are n…

iNat has a very small staff. And Carrie is (still) one of them.

Thank you for that information. Then at least I know I might have to wait a few more days or hope she finds this thread (since emails some times end up in the spam folder). It is not a given that an email address from a forum post is still current.

[image] mrpopp: The answers clearly showed that my questions were not understood correctly. as far as i can tell, folks understand your question just fine. it seems like you just didn’t like the answers you got. but creating a bunch of new threads until you get an answer you like seems a bit …

Staff also wrote somewhere that CV is developed to support the determination of photo’s added to iNaturalist. If you try to determine leaves and flowers separately or to determine a genus like Carex I think it will not work. Most photo’s are plants on location and are complete plants, not part of pl…

I did already test some of the other models. However, the policies and APIs are as different as it gets. Testing those other models did not really provide a lot of useful insights and my questions are very iNat-specific. Also, discussing further on these older threads is very unlikely to be helpful,…

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further info from staff:

Topic		Replies	Views
Identification of images General	1	718	September 30, 2022
Testing the computer vision capabilities: What are valid practices? General api , observations , computer-vision	13	1254	June 29, 2023
Is there some API identification request (without creating an observation)? General question , api	4	1563	May 1, 2023
Does iNaturalist log what the AI guess is for each record? General computer-vision	16	1138	September 14, 2023
Is there a paper to cite when writing about the iNaturalist CV model? General question	4	474	January 28, 2024

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