Is there a way to make the AI give suggestions for the second or third picture in an existing observation?

[danaleeling]

@kiwifergus

The AI will take into account all photos, as far as I am aware.

@bouteloua

From @tiwane in 2018 on the Google Group:

When you submit an observation to computer vision, it takes the first photo and runs it through the model and spits out visually similar results. If something is “Seen nearby” that will affect the ranking of the results. Improvements to ranking and displaying results is definitely something we are looking into. That, along with a way to train the model on not just species but higher-level taxa will be really helpful, I think. But that will take time, it’s not easy.

@lvdt

I have changed the order of the photos on my own observations and the suggestions given by the computer vision change when I do so.

Based on what lvdt is seeing, I suspect the computer vision is only matching against the first photo. I have to imagine that matching against more than the first photo would be a coding nightmare. When I can, I reorder in the app to put what I think might be the best photo first and, if I do not know the plant myself, use the computer vision after that resequencing. Even then the computer vision must be used with care and attention to possible range issues.