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LifeCLEF http://www.lifeclef.org/ workshop 2021: AI-based biodiversity identification and prediction Thursday, 23rd Sept (in the context of CLEF http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/ virtual conference, overall programme http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/programme.html)

http://www.lifeclef.org/

AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- Since 2014, LifeCLEF has been organizing large-scale challenges on biodiversity identification and prediction in the context of the CLEF international conference. The annual workshop is a unique opportunity to bring together specialists from different backgrounds: machine learning, ecology, citizen science, biodiversity conservation. It is also an opportunity to have an overview of the state of the art of artificial intelligence techniques for (i) the identification of plant and snake species by images, (ii) the recognition of bird sounds and (iii) the prediction of species distributions from remote sensing images.

REGISTRATION ——————————— The registration https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn45KhRPwzolT1sRv35AUXU-P2afVaclrH2HJ44SxDfhVAFw/viewform to CLEF conference is FREE but MANDATORY.

PROGRAMME -------------------- Provided schedules are in Central European Summer Time (CEST, e.g. Paris) For Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, e.g. California): -9 For Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, e.g Brisbane): +8

11:30 - 13:00 LifeCLEF session 1 - chair: Alexis Joly 11:30-12:05 Keynote talk - Jessie Oliver (Queensland Univ. of Tech) - Designing citizen science technologies that support people learning and improving artificial intelligence 12:05-12:20 BirdCLEF challenge overview - Stefan Kahl (Cornell, Chemnitz univ.) 12:20-12:30 BirdCLEF participant - Jean-Francois Puget (NVIDIA) - STFT Transformers for Bird Song Recognition 12:30-12:45 SnakeCLEF challenge overview - Lukáš Picek (Univ. of West Bohemia) 12:45-13:00 PlantCLEF challenge overview - Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, PlantNet)

15:30 - 17:00 LifeCLEF session 2 - chair: Hervé Goëau 15:30-16:00 Invited talk - Marijn van der Velde (EU JRC) 16:00-16:15 GeoLifeCLEF challenge overview - Titouan Lorieul (Inria, univ. of Montpellier) 16:15-16:25 SnakeCLEF participant - Louise Bloch (Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund) - EfficientNets and Vision Transformers for Snake Species Identification Using Image and Location Information 16:25-16:35 GeoLifeCLEF participant - Sachith Seneviratne (Univ. of Melbourne) - Contrastive Representation Learning on remote sensing imagery for species habitat prediction 16:35-17:00 Invited talk - Sara Beery (Caltech)

ORGANIZERS -------------------------- Coordination Alexis Joly http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Alexis.Joly/, INRIA / University of Montpellier, LIRMM, ZENITH team, France,, France, alexis.joly(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr Henning Müller http://medgift.hevs.ch/silverstripe/index.php/team/henning-mueller/, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Sierre, Switzerland, henning.mueller(replace-by-an-arrobe)hevs.ch BirdCLEF Stefan Kahl https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/staff/stefan-kahl/, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA, sk2487(replace-by-an-arrobe)cornell.edu> Willem-Pier Vellinga https://www.xeno-canto.org/contributor/AEFZWKWLMO, Xeno-Canto foundation for nature sounds, The Netherlands, wp(replace-by-an-arrobe)xeno-canto.org Holger Klinck https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/holger-klinck/, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA, holger.klinck(replace-by-an-arrobe)cornell.edu> Tom Denton https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2021, Google LLC, San Francisco, USA, tmd(replace-by-an-arrobe)google.com Hervé Glotin http://glotin.univ-tln.fr/, University of Toulon, France, glotin(replace-by-an-arrobe)univ-tln.fr GeoLifeCLEF Titouan Lorieul https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=NjbJVB4AAAAJ&hl=en, University of Montpellier, Inria, LIRMM, titouan.lorieul(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr Elijah Cole https://elijahcole.me/, Caltech, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, US, ecole(replace-by-an-arrobe)caltech.edu Benjamin Deneu, INRIA / University of Montpellier, LIRMM, ZENITH team, France, benjamin.deneu(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr Christophe Botella, Université de Grenoble Rhônes Alpes, France, christophe.botella(replace-by-an-arrobe)gmail.com Maximilien Servajean https://maximiliense.github.io/, LIRMM – UMPV, Montpellier, France, Maximilien.Servajean(replace-by-an-arrobe)lirmm.fr PlantCLEF Hervé Goëau http://herve.goeau.free.fr/publications.htm, Cirad - AMAP, Montpellier, France. Pierre Bonnet, Cirad – AMAP, Montpellier, France, pierre.bonnet(replace-by-an-arrobe)cirad.fr SnakeCLEF Lukas Picek https://www.sites.google.com/view/picekl, Dept. of Cybernetics, FAV, University of West Bohemia, Czechia, lukaspicek(replace-by-an-arrobe)gmail.com Andrew Durso https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/en/staff/andrew-durso/, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA Rafael Ruiz De Castaneda https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/en/staff/rafael-ruiz-de-castaneda/, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Rafael.RuizDeCastaneda(replace-by-an-arrobe)unige.ch

CONTACT -------------------------- For more information or to ask questions, please send an email to lifeclef-org@inria.fr

Best regards,

Alexis Joly Research director at Inria / Univ. of Montpellier / LIRMM Montpellier, FRANCE

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