TY - GEN
T1 - Overview of LifeCLEF 2018
T2 - 9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018
AU - Joly, Alexis
AU - Goëau, Hervé
AU - Botella, Christophe
AU - Glotin, Hervé
AU - Bonnet, Pierre
AU - Vellinga, Willem Pier
AU - Planqué, Robert
AU - Müller, Henning
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - 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. Unfortunately, such basic information is often only partially available for professional stakeholders, teachers, scientists and citizens, and often incomplete for ecosystems that possess the highest diversity. In this context, an ultimate ambition is to set up innovative information systems relying on the automated identification and understanding of living organisms as a means to engage massive crowds of observers and boost the production of biodiversity and agro-biodiversity data. The LifeCLEF 2018 initiative proposes three data-oriented challenges related to this vision, in the continuity of the previous editions, but with several consistent novelties intended to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in several research directions. This paper describes the methodology of the conducted evaluations as well as the synthesis of the main results and lessons learned.
AB - 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. Unfortunately, such basic information is often only partially available for professional stakeholders, teachers, scientists and citizens, and often incomplete for ecosystems that possess the highest diversity. In this context, an ultimate ambition is to set up innovative information systems relying on the automated identification and understanding of living organisms as a means to engage massive crowds of observers and boost the production of biodiversity and agro-biodiversity data. The LifeCLEF 2018 initiative proposes three data-oriented challenges related to this vision, in the continuity of the previous editions, but with several consistent novelties intended to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art in several research directions. This paper describes the methodology of the conducted evaluations as well as the synthesis of the main results and lessons learned.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-98932-7_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-98932-7_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051066718
SN - 9783319989310
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 247
EP - 266
BT - Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 9th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2018, Proceedings
A2 - SanJuan, Eric
A2 - Murtagh, Fionn
A2 - Nie, Jian Yun
A2 - Soulier, Laure
A2 - Cappellato, Linda
A2 - Bellot, Patrice
A2 - Mothe, Josiane
A2 - Trabelsi, Chiraz
A2 - Ferro, Nicola
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 10 September 2018 through 14 September 2018
ER -
