Hi David,
First of all, I think we should decouple the feature request for automated annotation from the ongoing vision system. To us, it doesn’t make sense to talk about them together, because we won’t be implementing them together. Happy to talk about that further if you’d like.
With regard to thresholds, the unfortunate answer is that we don’t know what the thresholds are yet. We just know that more data produces better models. It’s taken us a few years to be able to understand and chart the relationship between the number of ID’d photos of species and suggestion accuracy. We haven’t even started looking at how an annotation model would perform, or what reasonable thresholds for one might be. It may be that the thresholds are similar to suggestions, but we don’t know that yet.
Thanks,
alex