LifeCLEF 2019 Bird Recognition Challenge

[Holger Klinck <>]

Dear all,

We cordially invite you to participate in the 2019 edition of the LifeCLEF Bird Recognition challenge (https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/lifeclef-2019-bird-recognition). LifeCLEF is part of CLEF 2019 (http://clef2019.clef-initiative.eu/), a conference to be held in Lugano, Switzerland, 9-12th September 2019.

The LifeCLEF consortium aims at evaluating and improving the efficiency of fully-automated algorithms tackling large scale biodiversity problems.

The goal of the LifeCLEF Bird Recognition challenge is to detect and classify all audible birds within a set of soundscape recordings. The training data contains ~50,000 recordings taken from xeno-canto.org and covers 659 common species from North and South America. The test data contains soundscape recordings from two regions: (i) ~280h of data recorded in Ithaca, NY, United States and (ii) ~4h of data recorded in Bolívar, Colombia. Each test recording contains multiple species and overlapping vocalizations. Both sets include extensive metadata and ~80,000 expert annotations provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (https://www.birds.cornell.edu/) and Paula Caycedo. If you are interested in bioacoustics, avian monitoring and/or machine learning, we invite you to participate in this challenge.

Please check out this website: https://www.imageclef.org/lifeclef2019 for more information.

The results will be published in the CLEF Labs Working Notes and presented at the CLEF 2019 conference in Switzerland. Other related conference contributions are welcome as well.

Schedule

• 1st March 2019: training and validation data release
• mid-March 2019: test data release
• 1st May 2019: deadline for submission of runs by the participants
• 13th of May 2019: release of processed results by the task organizers (online)
• 24th of May 2019: deadline for submission of working notes papers by the participants
• 28th of June 2019: camera ready working notes papers of participants and organizers
• 9th-12th Sept 2019: CLEF 2019, Lugano, Switzerland

Organizers

Stefan Kahl, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany: m("cs.tu-chemnitz.de","stefan.kahl");" moz-do-not-send="true">

Alexis Joly, Inria, ZENITH team, Montpellier, France: m("inria.fr","alexis.joly");" moz-do-not-send="true">

Hervé Goëau, CIRAD, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France: m("cirad.fr","herve.goeau");" moz-do-not-send="true">

Regards,

S. Kahl, A. Joly, H. Goëau