The 2nd Edition of the ImageCLEF Coral Annotation Challenge 2019

Website: https://www.imageclef.org/2020/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

• 21.01.2020: Registration opens for all ImageCLEF tasks (until 27.04.2020)
• 21.01.2020: training release starts
• 16.03.2020: Test data release starts
• 11.05.2020: Deadline for submitting the participants runs
• 18.05.2020: Release of the processed results by the task organizers
• 25.05.2020: Deadline for submission of working notes papers by the participants
• 15.06.2020: Notification of acceptance of the working notes papers
• 29.06.2020: Camera-ready working notes papers
• 22-25.09.2020: CLEF 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece

Participant Registration

Please refer to the general  ImageCLEF registration instructions

Organizing Committee

• Jon Chamberlain <jchamp(at)essex.ac.uk>,University of Essex, UK
• Adrian Clark <alien(at)essex.ac.uk>,University of Essex, UK
• Antonio Campello <a.campello(at)wellcome.ac.uk>,Wellcome Trust, 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/2020/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@essex.ac.uk

► https://www.essex.ac.uk/

WE ARE ESSEX