<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please, apologies for cross-posting</span></b><font size="4"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">We are happy to announce that the <b>test<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"> <span style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">data</span></span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"> for the <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">ImageCLEF</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">coral</span> task at CLEF <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">2020</span> has been <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">release</span>d. The test data contains images from four </span>different locations:</font></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="4">same location as training set</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="4">similar location to training set</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="4">geographically similar to training set</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font size="4">geographically distinct from training set</font></li></ul></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">Participants will be required to annotate and localise </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">coral</span></span> reef images by labelling the images with types of benthic substrate together. Each image is provided with possible class types.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">The <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">data</span> is accessible through the crowdAI platform: </span><a href="https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/imageclef-2020-coral-annotation-and-localisation/clef_task" target="_blank">https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/imageclef-2020-coral-annotation-and-localisation/clef_task</a>  </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><font size="4">Remember that only participants with signed End User Agreement (EUA) will have access to the <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;opacity:1;float:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">data</span>.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">For more details and updates, please visit the task website at: <a href="https://www.imageclef.org/2020/coral" target="_blank">https://www.imageclef.org/2020/coral</a> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4">And join our mailing list: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/imageclefcoral" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/imageclefcoral</a>   </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(73,73,73)"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(73,73,73)">If you participate in this task, you may want also to check the DrawnUI Task which addresses a similar classification problem, but in a different use case scenario. For more information see: </span><a href="https://www.imageclef.org/2020/drawnui" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(2,122,198);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.imageclef.org/2020/drawnui</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><div style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,52,36)">Dr Alba García Seco de Herrera</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">PhD</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Lecturer</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">University of Essex</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(238,52,36)">T</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(238,52,36)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">+44 (0)</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">1206 872907</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(238,52,36)">E </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:alba.garcia@essex.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">alba.garcia@essex.ac.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(238,52,36)">►</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> <u><a href="https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/garci58409/alba-garcia" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://www.essex.ac.uk/</a></u></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(238,52,36)">WE ARE ESSEX</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(75,48,106)"> </span></p></div></div>