Computer Vision News - March 2018

25 Challenge: LifeCLEF “ We hope that this year again -- Henning adds -- we will be able to increase performance in these tools so that the ecology community becomes more aware of what is possible. Many applications can be envisioned. Pl@ntNet for example has a mobile application that allows everyone to upload images to have the plant species checked. Several images can be uploaded, for example leaves, the stem, flowers etc. ” “ As a secondary effect it allows to measure many patters if the sampling is dense and many people participate. It allows to measure when plants flower (data of the submission) at what altitude and in which area (GPS information). It allows to detect invasive species (people usually take pictures of plants they do not know). Manually trying to monitor this is impossible but crowdsourcing with automatic tools can really help .” The deadline for submission of runs by participants is May 1 st . Computer Vision News Challenge “… increase performance in these tools so that the ecology community becomes more aware of what is possible! ”