| Introduction |
ImageCLEF is the cross-language
image retrieval track which is run as part of the
Cross Language Evaluation Forum
(CLEF) campaign. This track evaluates retrieval of images described by text
captions based on queries in a different language; both text and image matching
techniques are potentially exploitable. A preliminary flyer for ImageCLEF 2005
can be downloaded here
ImageCLEF
2005 offers tasks for both system-centered and user-centered evaluation of
image retrieval systems and four tasks are
offered:
It is expected that Content-Based
Image Retrieval (CBIR) will be used for the medical tasks and a base system
will be made publicly accessible. The tasks offer different and challenging retrieval problems for
cross-language image retrieval. The first task is also envisaged as an entry
level task for newcomers to CLEF and to CLIR.
The main goals of ImageCLEF are to
investigate the effectiveness of combining text and image for retrieval,
collect and provide resources for benchmarking image retrieval systems and
promote the exchange of ideas which will lead to improvements in the
performance of retrieval systems. ImageCLEF is coordinated
by the University of Sheffield, the University and University Hospitals of
Geneva and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). For more information
see the main ImageCLEF website.
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| What to do if interested in
participating |
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 from individual task websites.
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| Image
collections |
Three test collections are
available:
- ImageCLEFmed collection made available
by the University and University Hospitals Geneva in collaboration with Oregon
Health and Science University (OHSU) - more information.
- IRMA database of 10,000 medical
images, copyright the IRMA group, Aachen University of Technology (RWTH),
Germany (use is currently limited to the ImageCLEF competition). These images
are from the IRMA
project.
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| Important
dates |
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| Registration
opens |
31
January 2005 |
| Data
release |
from 15
February 2005 |
| Topics
release |
from 15
March 2005 |
| Submission of
runs |
from 15
May 2005 |
| Release of
results |
from 15
July 2005 |
| Submission of paper
for working notes |
21 August
2005 |
| Workshop (in
conjunction with ECDL2005 in Vienna,
Austria) |
21-23
September 2005 |
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| Organisers of
ImageCLEF |
Paul Clough and Henning Mueller are overall organisers of
ImageCLEF 2005. Several other individuals and research groups are also involved
in providing and running different ImageCLEF tasks. For information about the
tasks, please contact the task organisers listed below:
Bilingual ad hoc
task
Paul Clough,
Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK (p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk)
Michael Grubinger,
School of Computer Science and
Mathematics, Victoria University, Australia (michael.grubinger@research.vu.edu.au)
Interactive search task
Paul Clough, Department of
Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK (p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk)
Julio Gonzalo,
NLP Group, UNED, Spain (julio@lsi.uned.es)
Medical image retrieval
Henning
Mueller, University and
University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
(henning.mueller@sim.hcuge.ch)
William
Hersh, Oregon Health and Science
University, USA (hersh@ohsu.edu)
Automatic image annotation
Thomas Lehmann, IRMA group, Aachen
University of Technology (RWTH), Germany (lehmann@computer.org)
Thomas Deselaers, IRMA group, Aachen University of
Technology (RWTH), Germany (deselaers@i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
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