Manual Annotation (Beta)
When looking at an Encounter page, you may see that a MediaAsset does not have a dashed rectangle (e.g. Annotation bounding box) around an animal in the picture. In this case, the detection stage did not recognized the animal.
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Navigating to the Manual Annotation PageIn an Encounter page's Gallery, open the menu over an image and select add annotation to open the manual annotation screen.

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Understanding the Manual Annotation PageThe Manual Annotation page has the following sections, which appear in order as you make selections.

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Creating a Manual AnnotationEach step needs to be completed for the next step to appear on the screen.
- In Select Viewpoint, choose the primary viewpoint that the photographer is observing the animal from, such as left, right, front, back, etc.
- In Select annotation iaClass allows you to define the type of animal or feature the annotation represents. This is a fixed list per species that corresponds to detection classes returned by the Image Analysis pipeline.
- In Draw the new annotation bounding box below
- Hover your mouse over the image, then use the guides to align the corner with the outer edges of the animal.
- Left-click once to mark the first corner of the bounding box.
- Move your mouse to the opposing corner position of a rectangle (i.e. if top-left complete, move to bottom-right). Use the guides to align the corner with the outer edges of the animal.
- Left-click to mark the opposing corner position.
- Click Save to save your new annotation. A confirmation page appears with a link back to the Encounter page. It is important to note that if another annotation is already on this MediaAsset, Wildbook may clone this Encounter and create a new one, recognizing that two annotations in one image means that two animals are present and thus at least two Encounters by definition (one animal at a location and date) must exist.
- Navigate back to the Encounter page and click start match to begin the identification pipeline for this new annotation. See Manually starting a match for more information.

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Troubleshooting#
How do I fix an annotation?If an incorrect annotation is created, whether through the detection process or manually, you can first delete the annotation and then re-draw the annotation if desired using the procedures above.
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How do I annotate a part of an individual (Ex. head, tail, etc.)?When selecting the annotation iaClass, look for the species, plus the part symbol '+'. For example, if you would like to annotate green turtle heads, search 'turtle_green+head'.
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How do I associate a part with the body in my encounter?Unfortunately, this function is not currently supported.