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LifeCLEF 2014: Multimedia Life Species Identification Challenges

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Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2014)

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Using multimedia identification tools is considered as one of the most promising solutions to help bridging the taxonomic gap and build accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution and the evolution of living species. Large and structured communities of nature observers (e.g. eBird, Xeno-canto, Tela Botanica, etc.) as well as big monitoring equipments have actually started to produce outstanding collections of multimedia records. Unfortunately, the performance of the state-of-the-art analysis techniques on such data is still not well understood and is far from reaching the real world’s requirements. The LifeCLEF lab proposes to evaluate these challenges around three tasks related to multimedia information retrieval and 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. This paper presents more particularly the 2014 edition of LifeCLEF, i.e. the pilot one. For each of the three tasks, we report the methodology and the datasets as well as the official results and the main outcomes.

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  1. Inria, LIRMM, Montpellier, France

    Alexis Joly

  2. Inria, Saclay, France

    Hervé Goëau

  3. IUF & Univ. de Toulon, France

    Hervé Glotin

  4. University of Catania, Italy

    Concetto Spampinato

  5. CIRAD, France

    Pierre Bonnet

  6. Xeno-canto foundation, The Netherlands

    Willem-Pier Vellinga & Robert Planque

  7. Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  8. Edinburgh Univ., UK

    Robert Fisher

  9. HES-SO, Switzerland

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Joly, A. et al. (2014). LifeCLEF 2014: Multimedia Life Species Identification Challenges. In: Kanoulas, E., et al. Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8685. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_20

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