LifeCLEF

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LifeCLEF is an international research initiative in the field of biodiversity informatics that organizes yearly challenges on the automated identification and understanding of life forms, particularly using machine learning and computer vision methods. It is part of CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum), which organizes benchmark challenges to advance state-of-the-art techniques in information retrieval and data analysis.

Tasks

The LifeCLEF Lab features five different tasks:

AnimalCLEF
Discovering Individual Animals.
BirdCLEF+
Multi-taxa Species Identification in Soundscape Recordings.
PlantCLEF
Identify Multi-species Plants in Images of Vegetation Plots.
MarineCLEF
Positive-Unlabeled Object Detection in Marine Images.
PestCLEF
Information Extraction on Plant Pests from News Articles.

Organizers

  • Alexis Joly (INRIA, France)
  • Lukáš Picek (INRIA, France; University of West Bohemia, Czechia)
  • Stefan Kahl (K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, USA; Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany)
  • Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, France)
  • Lukáš Adam (University of West Bohemia, Czechia)
  • Robert Bossy (Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, France)
  • Laura Chrobak (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA)