Introduction
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To promote research in cross language image retrieval we instigated
the ImageCLEF campaign as part of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum
(CLEF). We felt this contribution to the CLEF campaign would address an
important and timely problem not dealt with by existing cross language
evaluations. We envisage ImageCLEF will appeal to both commercial and academic
research communities including: cross language information retrieval, image
retrieval, and user interaction. The main aims of the ImageCLEF campaign are:
- To promote and initiate
international research for CL image retrieval.
- To further our
understanding of the relationships between CL texts and images for IR.
- To create a set of useful
standardised resources for CL image retrieval to scientific communities in the
whole.
ImageCLEF consists of three
different tasks based on different domains, scenarios and collections. The
campaign is run in a similar manner as the TREC and NTCIR information retrieval
evaluations and we encourage participants to take part in one (or all) of the
following system and user-evaluation tasks:
- A bilingual ad hoc retrieval task in which multilingual
search requests (topics) are to be performed against an historic photographic
collection in which images are accompanied with English captions.
- A medical retrieval task in which an example image is
used to perform a search against a medical image database consisting of images
such as scans and x-rays to find similar images. Each medical image or a group
of images represents an illness, and case notes in English or French are
associated with each illness to be used for diagnosis.
A preliminary flyer for
ImageCLEF 2004 can be downloaded here and
a more detailed plan of the tasks offered by the campaign can be found
here.
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I'm
interested so how do I register?
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You can register for ImageCLEF 2004 by contacting
Carol Peters, the main
coordinator for CLEF. For more specific information about any aspect of
ImageCLEF or the tasks, please contact
Paul Clough.
Once you have
registered your interest with Carol Peters and filled in the appropriate
copyright and declaration forms you will be able to download the data
collections. The data can be downloaded via our ftp server, but if you
experience any difficulties or you would rather access the collection via
another method (e.g. CDROM) then please let
Paul Clough know to arrange
this.
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Important dates
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| Registration
opens |
15 January 2004 |
| Data
release |
from February 2004 |
| Topics
release |
from 15 March 2004 |
| Submission
of runs |
31 May 2004 |
| Release of
results |
from 15 July 2004 |
| Workshop
papers deadline |
15 August 2004 |
| Workshop (in
conjunction with ECDL in Bath,
UK) |
15-16 September 2004 |
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Results
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Results for ImageCLEF 2004 can be found here:B
An overview paper was
written about ImageCLEF for the CLEF workshop and the
CLEF proceedings (Lecture Notes in
Computer Science) summarising the evaluation campaign.
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