LifeCLEF 2015 Call for Papers

Here are 3 CLEF themed contests for recognition of 
fish species (from images), plant species (from images) and
birds (from audio).

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LifeCLEF 2015: Call for participation
The lab of CLEF dedicated to the recognition of living species.
http://www.lifeclef.org/

 
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Description
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Building accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution
and the evolution of living species is essential for a sustainable development 
of humanity as well as for biodiversity conservation. In this context, 
using multimedia identification tools is considered as one of the most 
promising solution to help bridging the taxonomic gap. With the recent 
advances in digital devices/equipment, network bandwidth and information 
storage capacities, the production of multimedia data has indeed become 
an easy task. In parallel, the emergence of citizen sciences and social 
networking tools has fostered the creation of large and structured 
communities of nature observers (e.g. e-bird, Xeno-canto, Tela Botanica, 
etc.) who started to produce outstanding collections of multimedia records. 
Unfortunately, the performance of the state-of-the-art multimedia analysis 
techniques on such data is still not well understood and far from reaching 
the real world’s requirements in terms of identification tools. The
LifeCLEF lab proposes to evaluate these challenges around 3 tasks related 
to fine-grained classification problems in three living worlds. Each task 
is based on large and real-world data and the measured challenges are 
defined in collaboration with biologists and environmental stakeholders 
in order to reflect realistic usage scenarios.

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Tasks
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- BirdCLEF: an audio record-based bird identification task
         data collected by Xeno-canto social network
        1000 bird species from South America 
        around 33k audio records

- PlantCLEF: an image-based plant identification task
        data collected by Tela Botanica & Pl@ntNet's social networks
        1000 plant species from West Europe 
        around 113k images 

- FishCLEF: a fish video monitoring task
	Underwater cameras
        15 fish species living in coral reefs
	around 9000 fish instances localized in 20 videos + 20,000 sample images   

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Schedule
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12.11.2014: registration opens for all LifeCLEF tasks (open until 30.04.2015)
15.01.2015: training data release starts (depends on the task)
15.03.2015: test data release starts (depends on the task)
01.05.2015: deadline for submission of runs by the participants
08-15.05.2015: release of processed results by the task organizers
31.05.2015: deadline for submission of working notes papers by the participants
30.06.2015: notification of acceptance of the working notes papers
15.07.2015: camera ready working notes papers
08-11.09.2014: CLEF 2015, Toulouse, France

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Additional Information
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http://www.lifeclef.org/