ImageCLEF is the cross-language image retrieval track run as part of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) campaign. This track evaluates retrieval of images described by text captions based on queries in a different language; both text and image matching techniques are potentially exploitable.
The details of all the databases for ImageCLEF 2008 will still need to be defined. Registration will open in early February and registration forms are available from the CLEF web pages.
The following tasks will take place in 2008:
- a photographic retrieval task,
- a medical retrieval task,
- a medical concept detection/annotation task, and
- a general photographic concept detection task.
- a wikipedia retrieval tasks using structured annotation with images
More information on the details of these tasks will follow shortly.
Schedule
The exact schedule will depend on the individual tasks and is still subject to changes as we have not yet received the copyright for all databases we would like to use.
A tentative global schedule can be found here (please look at the page of each task for more details):
- 10.2.2008 : registration opens for all CLEF tasks
- 1.3.2008 : data release
- 1.4.2008 : topic release
- 15.5.2008 : submission of runs
- 15.7.2008 : release of results
- 15.8.1008 : submission of working notes papers
- 17.-19.9.2008 : CLEF workshop in Aarhus, Denmark