Connectionists: Call For Participation: 1st Edition of ImageCLEF Coral Annotation Challenge (@ CLEF 2019)

[Alba García]

*The 1st Edition of the ImageCLEF Coral Annotation Challenge 2019*

Website: https://www.imageclef.org/2019/coral

*Motivation*

The increasing use of structure-from-motion photogrammetry for modelling
large-scale environments from action cameras attached to drones has driven
the next-generation of visualisation techniques that can be used in
augmented and virtual reality headsets. It has also created a need to have
such models labelled, with objects such as people, buildings, vehicles,
terrain, etc. all essential for machine learning techniques to automatically
identify as areas of interest and to label them appropriately. However, the
complexity of the images makes impossible for human annotators to assess
the contents of images on a large scale.

Advances in automatically annotating images for complexity and benthic
composition have been promising, and we are interested in automatically
identify areas of interest and to label them appropriately for monitoring
coral reefs. Coral reefs are in danger of being lost within the next 30
years, and with them the ecosystems they support. This catastrophe will not
only see the extinction of many marine species, but also create a
humanitarian crisis on a global scale for the billions of humans who rely
on reef services. By monitoring the changes and composition of coral reefs
we can help prioritise conservation efforts.

*Data*

The data for this task originates from a growing, large-scale collection of
images taken from coral reefs around the world as part of a coral reef
monitoring project with the Marine Technology Research Unit at the
University of Essex (currently containing over 2TB of image data of benthic
reef structure).


* Challenge description*

Participants will be require to annotate and localise coral reef images by
labelling the images with types of benthic substrate together. Each image
is provided with possible class types.

*Preliminary Schedule*

   - *19.11.2018*: Registration opens for all ImageCLEF tasks (until
   *26.04.2019*)
   - *15.01.2019*: training release starts
   - *18.03.2019*: Test data release starts
   - *01.05.2019*: Deadline for submitting the participants runs
   - *13.05.2019*: Release of the processed results by the task organizers
   - *24.05.2019*: Deadline for submission of working notes papers by the
   participants
   - *07.06.2019*: Notification of acceptance of the working notes papers
   - *28.06.2019*: Camera-ready working notes papers
   - *09-12.09.2019*: CLEF 2019 <http://clef2019.clef-initiative.eu/>,
   Lugano, Switzerland



*Participant Registration*

Please refer to the general ImageCLEF registration instructions
<https://www.imageclef.org/2019#registration>



*Organizing Committee*

   - Jon Chamberlain <jchamp(at)essex.ac.uk>,University of Essex, UK
   - Adrian Clark <alien(at)essex.ac.uk>,University of Essex, UK
   - Alba García Seco de Herrera <alba.garcia(at)essex.ac.uk>,University of
   Essex, UK



For more details and updates, please visit the task website at:
https://www.imageclef.org/2019/coral

And join our mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/imageclefcoral




Dr Alba García Seco de Herrera PhD

Lecturer

Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

University of Essex



T +44 (0) 1206 872907

E alba.garcia at essex.ac.uk

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<https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/garci58409/alba-garcia>*



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