Images
Browse your trap photos in the OcuTrap app. Covers the Images tab, filters, species labels, the full-screen viewer, requesting a photo, and deleting one.
On this page
Every photo your traps send is kept in Images. You can look at one trap's photos or at photos from all your traps together.
Where to find your photos
- One trap: open the trap and select its Images tab.
- All traps: select Images in the main navigation. On the web app it is in the sidebar. In the mobile app it is a tab at the bottom of the screen.
In the app, Images always means photos. Captured is a different thing. It means an animal is in the trap.
Filters
Use the filter chips above the photos to narrow what you see.
Photo type
| Chip | Shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every photo. |
| Captured | Photos taken when the trap captured an animal. |
| Triggered | Photos taken when something set off the camera without a capture. |
| Manual | Check-in photos, such as ones you requested and scheduled photos. |
Animal in photo
The Animal in photo filter sorts photos by whether the automatic photo check found an animal.
| Choice | Meaning |
|---|---|
| All photos | No filtering. This is the default. |
| Animal detected | The check found an animal in the photo. |
| No animal detected | The check ran and did not find an animal. |
| Not determined | The check could not tell, or the photo has not been checked. |
This filter describes what the photo check saw in a picture. It does not confirm that an animal is in the trap, and it is not the same as a capture. For the trap's real state, look at the trap status.
Species
When any of your loaded photos has a species label, a row of species chips appears. Select a species to see only those photos, or All animals to clear the choice. If none of your photos has a label yet, this row is hidden.
Species labels are estimates
The app checks many photos automatically and may add a species label, such as a raccoon or an opossum.
- The label is an automatic estimate. It can be wrong. Always look at the photo yourself before you act.
- The label is never proof of a capture. Only the trap status tells you an animal is inside.
- Photos without a label show no label at all. That is normal.
- You cannot edit or correct a label in the app.
When you open a photo in the viewer, a status line tells you how it was checked. You may see:
- AI species estimate: the check suggested a species. The viewer shows the name and a confidence percentage.
- Animal detected · species uncertain: the check saw an animal but could not name it.
- Waiting for a photo check: the photo has not been checked yet.
- Photo check failed: the check did not finish for this photo.
- Not automatically checked: this kind of photo is not checked.
A low confidence percentage means the estimate is less reliable. Dark, blurry, or partly blocked photos are harder to label. See Camera for ways to improve image quality.
OcuTrap does not decide what to trap based on species. Any animal that enters can trigger a capture. See What animals is the OcuTrap designed for?.
The full-screen viewer
Select any photo to open it in the viewer. From there you can move to the next or previous photo and see the photo's type and species label.
Web
The viewer toolbar has these controls:
- Zoom in and Zoom out.
- Fit image and Actual pixels: switch between fitting the whole photo on screen and showing it at its real size.
- Toggle fullscreen.
- Delete image: shown only on photos from traps you own.
- Close viewer.
A strip of small thumbnails along the bottom lets you jump between photos. You can also use the arrow keys on your keyboard.
Mobile
Swipe left or right to move between photos. The Delete image button is shown only on photos from traps you own.
Request a new photo
To get a fresh photo from a trap, open the trap and use Request image for a good-quality photo or Quick image for a faster, lower-quality one. See Requesting photos.
Delete a photo
The owner of a trap can delete any of its photos from the viewer with Delete image. Deleting is permanent. See Deleting an image.
See also
- When your trap takes photos: automatic photo timing
- Requesting photos
- Deleting an image
- Camera: image quality and night-vision settings