LifeCLEF 2024

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Tentative Schedule

Jan 2024: registration opens for all LifeCLEF challenges
Jan-March 2024: training and test data release
6-24 May 2024: deadline for submission of runs by participants (depends on the challenge, please refer to the page of each challenge)
31 May 2024: deadline for submission of working note papers by participants [CEUR-WS proceedings]
24 June 2024: notification of acceptance of participant's working note papers [CEUR-WS proceedings]
8 July 2024: camera ready copy of participant's working note papers and extended lab overviews by organizers
9-12 Sept 2024: CLEF 2024 Grenoble - France

Motivation

Building accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution and the evolution of species is essential for the sustainable development of humanity, as well as for biodiversity conservation. However, the difficulty of identifying plants, animals and fungi is hindering the aggregation of new data and knowledge. Identifying and naming living organisms is almost impossible for the general public and is often difficult even for professionals and naturalists. Bridging this gap is a key step towards enabling effective biodiversity monitoring systems. The LifeCLEF campaign, presented in this paper, has been promoting and evaluating advances in this domain since 2011. The 2024 edition proposes five data-oriented challenges related to the identification and prediction of biodiversity: (i) BirdCLEF2024: bird species identification in soundscape recordings, (ii) GeoLifeCLEF 2024: species presence prediction based on occurrences data and high-resolution remote sensing images, (iii) PlantCLEF 2024: multi-species plant identification in vegetation plot images, (iv) SnakeCLEF 2024: snake species identification in medically important scenarios, and (v) FungiCLEF 2024: fungi Recognition Beyond 1-0 Cost

Registration and data access

Please look at the registration process on the page of each challenge.

CLEF Conference and working notes

LifeCLEF lab is part of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CLEF consists of independent peer-reviewed workshops on a broad range of challenges in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of benchmarking activities carried in various labs designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems. More details can be found on the CLEF 2024 website.

Submitting a working note with the full description of the methods used in each run is mandatory. Any run that could not be reproduced thanks to its description in the working notes might be removed from the official publication of the results. Working notes are published within CEUR-WS proceedings, resulting in an assignment of an individual DOI (URN) and an indexing by many bibliography systems including DBLP. According to the CEUR-WS policies, a light review of the working notes will be conducted by LifeCLEF organizing committee to ensure quality. As an illustration, LifeCLEF 2024 working notes (task overviews and participant working notes) can be found within CLEF 2024 CEUR-WS proceedings. These proceedings are indexed by most bibliography repositories such as DBLP, Scopus, Google scholar, ResearchGate, etc.

LifeCLEF presentation at ECIR 2024

A brief overview of the whole LifeCLEF lab will be presented at ECIR 2024 conference (March 24 – March 28, 2024).

Organizing Team

Coordination

Alexis Joly, INRIA / University of Montpellier, LIRMM, ZENITH team, France,, France, alexis.joly(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Sierre, Switzerland, henning.mueller(replace-by-an-arrobe)hevs.ch
Hervé Goëau, Cirad - AMAP, Montpellier, France.

BirdCLEF

Stefan Kahl, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA, sk2487(replace-by-an-arrobe)cornell.edu>
Willem-Pier Vellinga, Xeno-Canto foundation for nature sounds, The Netherlands, wp(replace-by-an-arrobe)xeno-canto.org
Holger Klinck, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA, holger.klinck(replace-by-an-arrobe)cornell.edu>
Tom Denton, Google LLC, San Francisco, USA, tmd(replace-by-an-arrobe)google.com
Hervé Glotin, University of Toulon, France, glotin(replace-by-an-arrobe)univ-tln.fr

FungiCLEF

Lukas Picek, INRIA--Montpellier, France & Dept. of Cybernetics, FAV, University of West Bohemia, Czechia, lukaspicek@gmail.com
Milan Sulc, Rossum.ai, Czechia, milansulc01@gmail.com
Jiri Matas, The Center for Machine Perception Dept. of Cybernetics, FEE, Czech Technical University, Czechia, matas@cmp.felk.cvut.cz
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate University of Copenhagen, Denmark, jheilmann-clausen@sund.ku.dk

GeoLifeCLEF

Lukas Picek, INRIA--Montpellier, France & Dept. of Cybernetics, FAV, University of West Bohemia, Czechia, lukaspicek@gmail.com
Christophe Botella, University of Montpellier, Inria, LIRMM, AMAP, France, christophe.botella(replace-by-an-arrobe)gmail.com
Titouan Lorieul, University of Montpellier, Inria, LIRMM, titouan.lorieul(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr
Maximilien Servajean, LIRMM – UMPV, Montpellier, France, Maximilien.Servajean(replace-by-an-arrobe)lirmm.fr

PlantCLEF

Hervé Goëau, Cirad - AMAP, Montpellier, France, herve.goeau(replace-by-an-arrobe)cirad.fr.
Vincent Espitalier, Cirad - AMAP, Montpellier, France, vincent.espitalier(replace-by-an-arrobe)cirad.fr.
Pierre Bonnet, Cirad – AMAP, Montpellier, France, pierre.bonnet(replace-by-an-arrobe)cirad.fr

SnakeCLEF

Lukas Picek, INRIA--Montpellier, France & Dept. of Cybernetics, FAV, University of West Bohemia, Czechia, lukaspicek@gmail.com
Marek Hruz, Dept. of Cybernetics, FAV, University of West Bohemia, Czechia, mhruz@ntis.zcu.cz
Andrew Durso, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA