Platform(s), website URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Feature request details: When an observation is identified using iNaturalist’s computer vision suggestion feature, a small badge is displayed in the indentification box of an observation indicating that a CV model was used. H…

I can understand @martinax ’s frustration with mis-IDs, and I think the reasoning for including the model version is to add additional contextual information, going beyond the current situation where the Computer Vision symbol is useful contextual information, even while it is important to remember t…

[image] deboas: There may also be other more effective ways of addressing the problem that prompted this request - one would be to regularly check the Research Grade observations at @pisum ’s link - for now there is just one. While pisum’s approach is creative and interesting, virtually all Ra…

without capturing a lot of other information, i don’t think computer vision version number alone provides anyone enough information to do anything meaningful. that said, i still can’t really envision a use case where capturing all that complexity is really worth it either. see https://forum.inatura…

[image] martinax: virtually all Ramaria formosa observations are currently made with Seek and all of them are incorrect. I need the influx to stop but that’s a separate issue with the Seek app. In terms of stopping the influx, I have a question about the Seek app, which I have used very littl…

Seek allows to edit identification before uploading to iNaturalist.

I think you can create an Excelsheet for yourself with three columns: CV version, date inservice, date outservice and with the information published in the monthly overviews you can fill this Excel sheet. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-updates-for-august-2024/55068 The timestamp when…

I agree this would be interesting information to see, but I don’t know that it would impact anything we do as identifiers. If I see an observation labeled as species A, but I know it to be species B, I’m going to suggest species B as an ID. Whether the original ID was or wasn’t CV-suggested doesn’t…

[image] optilete: Other websites have the possibility to add a question mark to the observation. But we can, and do, leave a comment if we want to express uncertainty. Or - no ID - and only a comment query with a possible name.

I agree with others that adding the version number would not be very useful for two reasons: Interpreting the CV “icon” as an indication that a user actually used the CV is a pretty fraught and poor inference in most use cases. The CV is used so often as an autocomplete (or by people who know wha…

[image] spiphany: As far as I know, apart from adding a symbol next to the ID, the CV suggestions for a particular observation are not recorded and not used in training the model. It also does not indicate which suggestion was used – whether the user chose the first one or something lower down o…

Include computer vision model version in identification metadata

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CV suggestions no longer accurate after City Nature Challenge General	42	916	July 18, 2025
Opinion on the computer vision icon? General question	61	2328	October 14, 2023
Once something is incorrectly in the CV model, there's no removing it without diligent effort General	35	1003	December 14, 2025
Problems with Computer Vision and new/inexperienced users General	134	5537	December 27, 2021
Recommendations on improving the AI algorithm? General	50	940	June 12, 2025

Include computer vision model version in identification metadata

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