{ "id": 506779, "title": "BirdCLEF working notes - Announcing the winners", "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2024/discussion/506779", "author_name": "Stefan Kahl", "post_date": "2024-05-23T07:20:13.537000", "votes": 16, "comment_count": 12, "views": 0, "content": "

Update 07/25/24:

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This year, participants submitted 11 working notes, 8 of which were accepted for the 2024 CLEF proceedings. We reviewed all submissions and selected the two best working notes to be honored with an award. This year's winners are:

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Anthony Miyaguchi, Adrian Cheung, Murilo Gustineli, and Ashley Kim: \"Transfer Learning with Pseudo Multi-Label Birdcall Classification for DS@GT BirdCLEF 2024\" - Team DS@GT

\n

and

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Emiel Witting, Hugo de Heer, Jeffrey Lim, Cahit Tolga Kopar and Kristóf Sándor: \"Addressing the Challenges of Domain Shift in Bird Call\nClassification for BirdCLEF 2024\" - Team Team Epoch

\n

Congratulations!

\n

Thank you to everyone who went through the process of submitting a working note, we will reference the PDFs once the proceedings have been published.

\n
\n

Building accurate knowledge of the identity, geographic distribution, and evolution of species is essential for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. However, the routine identification of plants and animals in the field significantly hampers the aggregation of new data and knowledge. Identifying and naming living plants or animals is almost impossible for the public and often a challenging task for professionals and naturalists. Bridging this gap is a key challenge toward enabling effective biodiversity monitoring systems. The LifeCLEF evaluation campaign has been boosting and evaluating advances in this domain since 2011.

\n

Each year, participants of LifeCLEF publish their research as part of the CLEF workshop proceedings (e.g., CLEF 2023 Proceedings). As in previous years, we encourage you to contribute to this research by publishing your solution as a working note, even if you're not among the top-scoring participants. Why should you do this? Here are a few reasons:

\n\n

CLEF organizers provide a template to help you get started. Each working note should be between 4 and 8 pages long. If you have something interesting you tried or a good ablation study, we want to hear from you!

\n

Additionally, we will review and rate all submitted working notes; the two best papers will be awarded $2,500 each (independent of the final score!).

\n

For more details on the review process, visit the “Evaluation” subsection.

\n

Curious about what a working note looks like? Here are the two best working notes from last year:

\n

Anthony Miyaguchi, Nathan Zhang, Murilo Gustineli and Chris Hayduk: \"Transfer Learning with Semi-Supervised Dataset Annotation for Birdcall Classification\"

\n

Mario Lasseck: \"Bird Species Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention on Frequency Bands\"

\n

This is the timeline for working note submissions:

\n\n

Submission information:

\n

Working notes are published within CEUR-WS proceedings, resulting in an assignment of an individual DOI (URN) and an indexing by many bibliography systems, including DBLP. According to the CEUR-WS policies, a light review of the working notes will be conducted by LifeCLEF organizing committee to ensure quality. As an illustration, LifeCLEF 2022 working notes (task overviews and participant working notes) can be found within CLEF 2023 CEUR-WS proceedings. These proceedings are indexed by most bibliography repositories such as DBLP, Scopus, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, etc.

\n

Submission template

\n

Please use the LaTeX template provided by the organizers for writing your working notes.

\n

Submission through EasyChair

\n

The CLEF organizers published a PDF that explains the submission process in more detail, you can download it here. Please note, the BirdCLEF submission deadline is June 21 not May 31 as mentioned in the PDF. However, the camera-ready submission deadline is July 8.

\n

We look forward to your contributions!

", "messages": [ { "id": 2830423, "postDate": "2024-05-23T07:20:13.537Z", "content": "

Update 07/25/24:

\n

This year, participants submitted 11 working notes, 8 of which were accepted for the 2024 CLEF proceedings. We reviewed all submissions and selected the two best working notes to be honored with an award. This year's winners are:

\n

Anthony Miyaguchi, Adrian Cheung, Murilo Gustineli, and Ashley Kim: \"Transfer Learning with Pseudo Multi-Label Birdcall Classification for DS@GT BirdCLEF 2024\" - Team DS@GT

\n

and

\n

Emiel Witting, Hugo de Heer, Jeffrey Lim, Cahit Tolga Kopar and Kristóf Sándor: \"Addressing the Challenges of Domain Shift in Bird Call\nClassification for BirdCLEF 2024\" - Team Team Epoch

\n

Congratulations!

\n

Thank you to everyone who went through the process of submitting a working note, we will reference the PDFs once the proceedings have been published.

\n
\n

Building accurate knowledge of the identity, geographic distribution, and evolution of species is essential for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. However, the routine identification of plants and animals in the field significantly hampers the aggregation of new data and knowledge. Identifying and naming living plants or animals is almost impossible for the public and often a challenging task for professionals and naturalists. Bridging this gap is a key challenge toward enabling effective biodiversity monitoring systems. The LifeCLEF evaluation campaign has been boosting and evaluating advances in this domain since 2011.

\n

Each year, participants of LifeCLEF publish their research as part of the CLEF workshop proceedings (e.g., CLEF 2023 Proceedings). As in previous years, we encourage you to contribute to this research by publishing your solution as a working note, even if you're not among the top-scoring participants. Why should you do this? Here are a few reasons:

\n\n

CLEF organizers provide a template to help you get started. Each working note should be between 4 and 8 pages long. If you have something interesting you tried or a good ablation study, we want to hear from you!

\n

Additionally, we will review and rate all submitted working notes; the two best papers will be awarded $2,500 each (independent of the final score!).

\n

For more details on the review process, visit the “Evaluation” subsection.

\n

Curious about what a working note looks like? Here are the two best working notes from last year:

\n

Anthony Miyaguchi, Nathan Zhang, Murilo Gustineli and Chris Hayduk: \"Transfer Learning with Semi-Supervised Dataset Annotation for Birdcall Classification\"

\n

Mario Lasseck: \"Bird Species Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention on Frequency Bands\"

\n

This is the timeline for working note submissions:

\n\n

Submission information:

\n

Working notes are published within CEUR-WS proceedings, resulting in an assignment of an individual DOI (URN) and an indexing by many bibliography systems, including DBLP. According to the CEUR-WS policies, a light review of the working notes will be conducted by LifeCLEF organizing committee to ensure quality. As an illustration, LifeCLEF 2022 working notes (task overviews and participant working notes) can be found within CLEF 2023 CEUR-WS proceedings. These proceedings are indexed by most bibliography repositories such as DBLP, Scopus, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, etc.

\n

Submission template

\n

Please use the LaTeX template provided by the organizers for writing your working notes.

\n

Submission through EasyChair

\n

The CLEF organizers published a PDF that explains the submission process in more detail, you can download it here. Please note, the BirdCLEF submission deadline is June 21 not May 31 as mentioned in the PDF. However, the camera-ready submission deadline is July 8.

\n

We look forward to your contributions!

", "rawMarkdown": "Update 07/25/24:\n\nThis year, participants submitted 11 working notes, 8 of which were accepted for the 2024 CLEF proceedings. We reviewed all submissions and selected the two best working notes to be honored with an award. This year's winners are:\n\n**Anthony Miyaguchi, Adrian Cheung, Murilo Gustineli, and Ashley Kim: \"Transfer Learning with Pseudo Multi-Label Birdcall Classification for DS@GT BirdCLEF 2024\"** - Team *DS@GT*\n\nand\n\n**Emiel Witting, Hugo de Heer, Jeffrey Lim, Cahit Tolga Kopar and Kristóf Sándor: \"Addressing the Challenges of Domain Shift in Bird Call\nClassification for BirdCLEF 2024\"** - Team *Team Epoch*\n\nCongratulations!\n\nThank you to everyone who went through the process of submitting a working note, we will reference the PDFs once the proceedings have been published.\n\n------------\n\nBuilding accurate knowledge of the identity, geographic distribution, and evolution of species is essential for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. However, the routine identification of plants and animals in the field significantly hampers the aggregation of new data and knowledge. Identifying and naming living plants or animals is almost impossible for the public and often a challenging task for professionals and naturalists. Bridging this gap is a key challenge toward enabling effective biodiversity monitoring systems. The [LifeCLEF evaluation campaign](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2024) has been boosting and evaluating advances in this domain since 2011.\n\nEach year, participants of LifeCLEF publish their research as part of the CLEF workshop proceedings (e.g., [CLEF 2023 Proceedings](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/)). As in previous years, we encourage you to contribute to this research by publishing your solution as a working note, even if you're not among the top-scoring participants. Why should you do this? Here are a few reasons:\n\n- Publish original research and gain recognition as a scientist\n- Make your solution accessible to a broad audience\n- Earn citations and build your reputation\n- Submitting a working note makes you eligible to present at CLEF 2024\n\nCLEF organizers provide a template to help you get started. Each working note should be between 4 and 8 pages long. If you have **something interesting** you tried or **a good ablation study**, we want to hear from you!\n\nAdditionally, we will review and rate all submitted working notes; **the two best papers will be awarded $2,500 each (independent of the final score!)**.\n\nFor more details on the review process, visit the “[Evaluation](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2024/overview/evaluation)” subsection.\n\nCurious about what a working note looks like? Here are the two best working notes from last year:\n\n**Anthony Miyaguchi, Nathan Zhang, Murilo Gustineli and Chris Hayduk**: \"[Transfer Learning with Semi-Supervised Dataset Annotation for Birdcall Classification](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/paper-177.pdf)\"\n\n**Mario Lasseck**: \"[Bird Species Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention on Frequency Bands](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/paper-175.pdf)\"\n\nThis is the timeline for working note submissions:\n\n- June 10th, 2024: Final Submission Deadline for competition\n- June 21st, 2024: Deadline for the submission of working notes\n- June 22nd - June 28th, 2024: Peer-review period\n- July 1st, 2024: Notification of acceptance\n- July 8th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of the camera-ready working notes\n- July 22nd, 2024: Announcement of best working note winners - NEW DATE: July 25 \n\n**Submission information:**\n\nWorking notes are published within CEUR-WS proceedings, resulting in an assignment of an individual DOI (URN) and an indexing by many bibliography systems, including DBLP. According to the CEUR-WS policies, a light review of the working notes will be conducted by LifeCLEF organizing committee to ensure quality. As an illustration, LifeCLEF 2022 working notes (task overviews and participant working notes) can be found within [CLEF 2023 CEUR-WS proceedings](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/). These proceedings are indexed by most bibliography repositories such as DBLP, Scopus, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, etc.\n\n**Submission template**\n\nPlease use the [LaTeX template provided by the organizers](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KPW1f5DBqZ7kX3CnMXgEQ9gSSSAul1KG/view?usp=sharing) for writing your working notes.\n\n**Submission through EasyChair**\n\nThe CLEF organizers published a PDF that explains the submission process in more detail, you can [download it here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EK4PHw3OpEPwRG488RQDrKqiONlUNhWH/view?usp=sharing). Please note, the BirdCLEF submission deadline is June 21 not May 31 as mentioned in the PDF. However, the camera-ready submission deadline is July 8.\n\nWe look forward to your contributions!", "votes": 16 }, { "id": 2936399, "postDate": "2024-07-26T06:10:24.277Z", "content": "

Exciting! It's been cool to participate in the last three years of BirdCLEF and to see the quantity and quality of the working notes go up. I lead the DS@GT team this year -- a pre-print version of our paper can be found on arXiv if you're curious: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06291

\n

Thank you to the organizers for hosting this competition and helping advance the state of bird research and conservation!

", "rawMarkdown": "Exciting! It's been cool to participate in the last three years of BirdCLEF and to see the quantity and quality of the working notes go up. I lead the DS@GT team this year -- a pre-print version of our paper can be found on arXiv if you're curious: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06291\n\nThank you to the organizers for hosting this competition and helping advance the state of bird research and conservation!", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 2877777, "postDate": "2024-06-18T15:03:17.547Z", "content": "

@stefankahl Do the figures, appendix and tables add to the page limit of 8 pages max? Or are those excluded.

\n

Thanks in advance!

", "rawMarkdown": "@stefankahl Do the figures, appendix and tables add to the page limit of 8 pages max? Or are those excluded.\n\nThanks in advance!", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 2880623, "postDate": "2024-06-20T09:52:14.373Z", "content": "

There is no strict page limit. 4-8 pages is a suggestion to keep things informative and comprehensible.

", "rawMarkdown": "There is no strict page limit. 4-8 pages is a suggestion to keep things informative and comprehensible.", "votes": 1, "replies": [ { "id": 2880629, "postDate": "2024-06-20T09:54:21.967Z", "content": "

Thank you for the response!

", "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for the response!", "votes": 1 } ] } ] }, { "id": 2865898, "postDate": "2024-06-11T04:12:53.510Z", "content": "

congratulations

", "rawMarkdown": "congratulations ", "votes": -1 }, { "id": 2861054, "postDate": "2024-06-08T02:07:38.720Z", "content": "

Hi,
\nThe competition is no longer accepting participants, but I want to submit working notes nevertheless. Am I allowed to submit?
\nThanks.

", "rawMarkdown": "Hi,\nThe competition is no longer accepting participants, but I want to submit working notes nevertheless. Am I allowed to submit?\nThanks.", "replies": [ { "id": 2863742, "postDate": "2024-06-09T16:34:20.833Z", "content": "

Technically yes, but you'd need to reference your leaderboard scores and thus, submitting might not be an option if you can't submit to the competition anymore. I belive the competition allows post-deadline submissions which will still give you a score (even if it's not being ranked), this could be an avenue for still being able to submit.

", "rawMarkdown": "Technically yes, but you'd need to reference your leaderboard scores and thus, submitting might not be an option if you can't submit to the competition anymore. I belive the competition allows post-deadline submissions which will still give you a score (even if it's not being ranked), this could be an avenue for still being able to submit.", "replies": [ { "id": 2871482, "postDate": "2024-06-14T08:20:13.493Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true }, { "id": 2871662, "postDate": "2024-06-14T10:32:30.953Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true }, { "id": 2872177, "postDate": "2024-06-14T16:12:05.920Z", "content": "

@jonathanchan I'm not sure what our policy is on post-close verification or if we even have the ability to specifically disable Persona post-close. I will ask around internally.

\n

Edit: Looks like one of my colleagues already responded elsewhere and raised the issue internally.

", "rawMarkdown": "@jonathanchan I'm not sure what our policy is on post-close verification or if we even have the ability to specifically disable Persona post-close. I will ask around internally.\n\nEdit: Looks like one of my colleagues [already responded elsewhere](https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/general/490841#2870281) and raised the issue internally.", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 2872442, "postDate": "2024-06-14T19:17:21.297Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true } ] } ] }, { "id": 2861404, "postDate": "2024-06-08T07:02:31.447Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true } ], "comments": [ { "id": 2936399, "author_name": "acmiyaguchi", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-07-26T06:10:24.277000", "content": "

Exciting! It's been cool to participate in the last three years of BirdCLEF and to see the quantity and quality of the working notes go up. I lead the DS@GT team this year -- a pre-print version of our paper can be found on arXiv if you're curious: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06291

\n

Thank you to the organizers for hosting this competition and helping advance the state of bird research and conservation!

", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 2877777, "author_name": "Hugo de Heer", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-18T15:03:17.547000", "content": "

@stefankahl Do the figures, appendix and tables add to the page limit of 8 pages max? Or are those excluded.

\n

Thanks in advance!

", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 2880623, "author_name": "Stefan Kahl", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-20T09:52:14.373000", "content": "

There is no strict page limit. 4-8 pages is a suggestion to keep things informative and comprehensible.

", "votes": 1, "replies": [ { "id": 2880629, "author_name": "Hugo de Heer", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-20T09:54:21.967000", "content": "

Thank you for the response!

", "votes": 1, "replies": [] } ] } ] }, { "id": 2865898, "author_name": "Betchaleel", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-11T04:12:53.510000", "content": "

congratulations

", "votes": -1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 2861054, "author_name": "Aishwarya Mundley", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-08T02:07:38.720000", "content": "

Hi,
\nThe competition is no longer accepting participants, but I want to submit working notes nevertheless. Am I allowed to submit?
\nThanks.

", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 2863742, "author_name": "Stefan Kahl", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-09T16:34:20.833000", "content": "

Technically yes, but you'd need to reference your leaderboard scores and thus, submitting might not be an option if you can't submit to the competition anymore. I belive the competition allows post-deadline submissions which will still give you a score (even if it's not being ranked), this could be an avenue for still being able to submit.

", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 2871482, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-14T08:20:13.493000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 2871662, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-14T10:32:30.953000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 2872177, "author_name": "Sohier Dane", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-14T16:12:05.920000", "content": "

@jonathanchan I'm not sure what our policy is on post-close verification or if we even have the ability to specifically disable Persona post-close. I will ask around internally.

\n

Edit: Looks like one of my colleagues already responded elsewhere and raised the issue internally.

", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 2872442, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-14T19:17:21.297000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] } ] }, { "id": 2861404, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2024-06-08T07:02:31.447000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "2830423": "Update 07/25/24:\n\nThis year, participants submitted 11 working notes, 8 of which were accepted for the 2024 CLEF proceedings. We reviewed all submissions and selected the two best working notes to be honored with an award. This year's winners are:\n\n**Anthony Miyaguchi, Adrian Cheung, Murilo Gustineli, and Ashley Kim: \"Transfer Learning with Pseudo Multi-Label Birdcall Classification for DS@GT BirdCLEF 2024\"** - Team *DS@GT*\n\nand\n\n**Emiel Witting, Hugo de Heer, Jeffrey Lim, Cahit Tolga Kopar and Kristóf Sándor: \"Addressing the Challenges of Domain Shift in Bird Call\nClassification for BirdCLEF 2024\"** - Team *Team Epoch*\n\nCongratulations!\n\nThank you to everyone who went through the process of submitting a working note, we will reference the PDFs once the proceedings have been published.\n\n------------\n\nBuilding accurate knowledge of the identity, geographic distribution, and evolution of species is essential for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. However, the routine identification of plants and animals in the field significantly hampers the aggregation of new data and knowledge. Identifying and naming living plants or animals is almost impossible for the public and often a challenging task for professionals and naturalists. Bridging this gap is a key challenge toward enabling effective biodiversity monitoring systems. The [LifeCLEF evaluation campaign](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2024) has been boosting and evaluating advances in this domain since 2011.\n\nEach year, participants of LifeCLEF publish their research as part of the CLEF workshop proceedings (e.g., [CLEF 2023 Proceedings](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/)). As in previous years, we encourage you to contribute to this research by publishing your solution as a working note, even if you're not among the top-scoring participants. Why should you do this? Here are a few reasons:\n\n- Publish original research and gain recognition as a scientist\n- Make your solution accessible to a broad audience\n- Earn citations and build your reputation\n- Submitting a working note makes you eligible to present at CLEF 2024\n\nCLEF organizers provide a template to help you get started. Each working note should be between 4 and 8 pages long. If you have **something interesting** you tried or **a good ablation study**, we want to hear from you!\n\nAdditionally, we will review and rate all submitted working notes; **the two best papers will be awarded $2,500 each (independent of the final score!)**.\n\nFor more details on the review process, visit the “[Evaluation](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/birdclef-2024/overview/evaluation)” subsection.\n\nCurious about what a working note looks like? Here are the two best working notes from last year:\n\n**Anthony Miyaguchi, Nathan Zhang, Murilo Gustineli and Chris Hayduk**: \"[Transfer Learning with Semi-Supervised Dataset Annotation for Birdcall Classification](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/paper-177.pdf)\"\n\n**Mario Lasseck**: \"[Bird Species Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks with Attention on Frequency Bands](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/paper-175.pdf)\"\n\nThis is the timeline for working note submissions:\n\n- June 10th, 2024: Final Submission Deadline for competition\n- June 21st, 2024: Deadline for the submission of working notes\n- June 22nd - June 28th, 2024: Peer-review period\n- July 1st, 2024: Notification of acceptance\n- July 8th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of the camera-ready working notes\n- July 22nd, 2024: Announcement of best working note winners - NEW DATE: July 25 \n\n**Submission information:**\n\nWorking notes are published within CEUR-WS proceedings, resulting in an assignment of an individual DOI (URN) and an indexing by many bibliography systems, including DBLP. According to the CEUR-WS policies, a light review of the working notes will be conducted by LifeCLEF organizing committee to ensure quality. As an illustration, LifeCLEF 2022 working notes (task overviews and participant working notes) can be found within [CLEF 2023 CEUR-WS proceedings](https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3497/). These proceedings are indexed by most bibliography repositories such as DBLP, Scopus, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, etc.\n\n**Submission template**\n\nPlease use the [LaTeX template provided by the organizers](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KPW1f5DBqZ7kX3CnMXgEQ9gSSSAul1KG/view?usp=sharing) for writing your working notes.\n\n**Submission through EasyChair**\n\nThe CLEF organizers published a PDF that explains the submission process in more detail, you can [download it here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EK4PHw3OpEPwRG488RQDrKqiONlUNhWH/view?usp=sharing). Please note, the BirdCLEF submission deadline is June 21 not May 31 as mentioned in the PDF. However, the camera-ready submission deadline is July 8.\n\nWe look forward to your contributions!", "2936399": "Exciting! It's been cool to participate in the last three years of BirdCLEF and to see the quantity and quality of the working notes go up. I lead the DS@GT team this year -- a pre-print version of our paper can be found on arXiv if you're curious: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06291\n\nThank you to the organizers for hosting this competition and helping advance the state of bird research and conservation!", "2877777": "@stefankahl Do the figures, appendix and tables add to the page limit of 8 pages max? Or are those excluded.\n\nThanks in advance!", "2865898": "congratulations ", "2861054": "Hi,\nThe competition is no longer accepting participants, but I want to submit working notes nevertheless. Am I allowed to submit?\nThanks.", "2861404": "" } }