Is the iNatForum-General the appropriate place to note suggestions? Case example: Alpine Jelly Cone (Guepiniopsis alpina) is what the algorithm suggests when uploading yellow conical blob-like fungi. And later the displays under the Compare menu are all adjacent species. In reality, this is a wid…

At some point I will join this conversation. But I likely have way to much to say about how one can improve the CV. I started a bit ago and plan more journal posts about this. They are not at all finished. But there if anybody wants to take a look. https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/zoology123/10…

So good to see such good ideas being presented and wealth of wisdom being shared. Does anyone know what kind of requirements management software and/or issue tracking system iNat is using? In my non-biology world we like DOORS and Jira, but I am guessing GitHub-like apps would be the choice here?

Long but this is just responses to some things. [image] paul_dennehy: I don’t think there’s any way to manually “tell” the CV to change its suggestions. It’s just a learning model that matches unknown images with a dataset of known images. As far as I know, no one can change what the CV spits o…

[image] SixthSeason: Does anyone know what kind of requirements management software and/or issue tracking system iNat is using? Its all on github

[image] zoology123: If hybrids are leaf taxa of a parent species. Their inclusion will cause the CV to unlearn the species. The CV only learns leaf taxa. Because hybrids have two parents, they are not children of their parents in the way that say, Aves is a child of Vertebrata. A hybrid betwe…

I had this topic discussed here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/computer-suggestions-use-disagreements-as-a-measure-for-difficult-taxa/18311 In your example, when most IDs based on CV suggestions are pushed back to genus level, the algorithm should learn that these algae are a difficult taxon and…

[image] zoology123: If a single observer with a single camera but CV requires many observers. One person cannot upload the required - 100 photos in 60 obs. That must wait for diversity and variety to be added.

Since when? Multiple species of Chironomid have been trained overwhelmingly from one person becuase they were in the right place at the right time and i asked them to observe enough for CV inclusion. Some of these examples reach 90%+ of the training data being from one person. Spooners flightless mi…

I understand that the model is validated against observations of the same taxa. It needs to be validated against observations of other taxa in the same genus and if possible against observations of other taxa of the family. While this change would not allow CV to suggest taxa it was not trained on,…

[image] zoology123: [image] Should There Be More Reward Mechanisms for Identifiers? Why not make CV more restrained The CV needs community controlled restraint. Where taxa that have issues can be addressed by curators and the main identifiers bringing up these issues. A blanket restraint w…

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