[visionlist] ImageCLEF 2009 registration open

[Henning Müller]

ImageCLEF 2009: Registration now open, Call for Participation

Registration is now open for ImageCLEF 2009 (http://www.imageclef.org/),
a benchmarking event for retrieval from image collections using visual 
information
and/or text. ImageCLEF is part of CLEF the Cross Language Evaluation
Forum (http://www.clef-campaign.org/). Registration forms are available
from this webpage. Registration and participation is free of charge.

ImageCLEF 2009 consists of six independent subtasks:
- Retrieval from a collection of photographs (>200'000 images)
- Retrieval from a collction of wikipedia images using structured annotation
- Medical Retrieval from >70'000 images from the scientific literature
- Medical image classification in two different sub tasks
- Annotation of a large photo collection with holistic concepts that are
structured in a small ontology
- Classification of scenes from robot vision

Main goal of ImageCLEF is to evaluate the combination of information
retrieval and image understanding applications using visual data,
multilingual text, and combinations of the two.
Results from simple text and visual retrieval systems can be made
available to participants who specialise in one of the domains for
combinations.
Data will be released starting from mid-March to mid-April.

Information regarding all tracks is available from the ImageCLEF website
at http://www.imageclef.org/.

If you have any questions with respect to ImageCLEF 2007 feel free to
contact me or any of the sub task organisers that are mentioned on the
respective pages.

Kind regards, Henning for the entire group of ImageCLEF organisers