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.
\nEach year, participants of LifeCLEF publish their research as part of the CLEF workshop proceedings (e.g., CLEF 2024 Proceedings). As in previous years, we encourage you to contribute by publishing a working note detailing your solution even if you're not among the top-scoring participants! If you have an interesting method, ablation study, or novel insight—we want to hear from you!
\nPlease use this single column working note template.
Submissions will be handled via EasyChair.
For reference, we attach selected previously accepted FungiCLEF working notes below:
\nDataset Paper describing used data --> FungiTastic
Papers describing the old dataset Danish Fungi dataset and our Fungi Recognition App.
We look forward to your contributions! 🚀
\nIf you have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread.
\nOn behalf of the organizing committee,
\nLukáš Picek
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.
\nEach year, participants of LifeCLEF publish their research as part of the CLEF workshop proceedings (e.g., CLEF 2024 Proceedings). As in previous years, we encourage you to contribute by publishing a working note detailing your solution even if you're not among the top-scoring participants! If you have an interesting method, ablation study, or novel insight—we want to hear from you!
\nPlease use this single column working note template.
Submissions will be handled via EasyChair.
For reference, we attach selected previously accepted FungiCLEF working notes below:
\nDataset Paper describing used data --> FungiTastic
Papers describing the old dataset Danish Fungi dataset and our Fungi Recognition App.
We look forward to your contributions! 🚀
\nIf you have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread.
\nOn behalf of the organizing committee,
\nLukáš Picek
Hi @picekl
\nIs there a cut off on the number of working notes that will be published with respect to Fungiclef 2025? for example, will only the top 3 working notes be published? Please let us know.
\nThanks.
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi @picekl \n\nIs there a cut off on the number of working notes that will be published with respect to Fungiclef 2025? for example, will only the top 3 working notes be published? Please let us know.\n\nThanks.", "votes": null }, { "id": "3193648", "postDate": "05/04/2025 18:35:57", "content": "Hi @bodhisattamaiti,
\n\n\nAs in previous years, we encourage you to contribute by publishing a working note detailing your solution, even if you're not among the top-scoring participants! If you have an interesting method, ablation study, or novel insight—we want to hear from you!
\n
Therefore, literally anyone can submit. We will primarily evaluate the writing quality etc.
\nBest,
\nLukas
Hi @picekl, where can we find the working note template ?
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi @picekl, where can we find the working note template ?", "votes": null }, { "id": "3198317", "postDate": "05/09/2025 09:25:20", "content": "Hi @abdrah ,
\nSadly, no information has yet been shared with us (organizers). Once we will have all the info, we will let all of you know. Anyway, I bet this is the template for this year.
\nBest,
\nLukas
Congratulations to all FungiCLEF25 participants 🎉
\nWhether you cracked the top ranks or pushed your first submission across the finish line, your efforts are driving real progress in automated biodiversity monitoring.
\nNow that the competition has wrapped up, we’d love to hear more about your approaches. Submit a working note by June 7, 2025 via EasyChair using the CEUR-WS template.
\nPlease read more about the reasons, benefits, etc. in the post above.\nIn you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.
\n— Lukáš Picek (on behalf of the LifeCLEF organizing committee
\n@jacketheredge @lianpinglu @yhfighting @aixiaodeyanjing @hahahahahal @skhhhh @hahahalll @auroraaur @zhangchao111 @reneclaire @hasanoetken @xylinali @wang1217 @xiongxun526 @because20 @pppaaal @firstfir @carsoncheng @bodhisattamaiti @giligiliai @harshitsheoran @abdrah @uuwonderofuoo @danmer414 @amadeuskurisu @shashankshuklacodedl @prasanthnaidukaraka @vishakkbhat @fcarrillo051 @whitesmz @creazy555 @arkel23 @yangtunanh @shuotest3 @treasureminer @allenyuhao @zalone689 @verkaballer16 @kanematsuyuma @ssena8693 @benoitsvn @emperoraugusto @nkmrrytr @maobanno @natsu1218 @acmiyaguchi @murilogustineli @jasonkaheitam @vincenttran179 @salmanahmedtamu @jichuli @meownav @manpreet023 @abhaykabdwal @xuanbinhle @giligiliaidigger @campbell9527 @peixuanli1107 @nonoonondidadida @yuzhichencs @sunnanjisuanji @yeyang0919cs @beckyhodge @stefano7 @cjrbharath @htamlive
", "rawMarkdown": "**Congratulations to all FungiCLEF25 participants** 🎉\n\nWhether you cracked the top ranks or pushed your first submission across the finish line, your efforts are driving real progress in automated biodiversity monitoring.\n\nNow that the competition has wrapped up, we’d love to hear more about your approaches. Submit a **working note** by **June 7, 2025** via [EasyChair](https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=clef2025) using the [CEUR-WS template](https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw). \n\n**Please read more about the reasons, benefits, etc. in the post above.\nIn you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.**\n\n— *Lukáš Picek* (on behalf of the LifeCLEF organizing committee\n\n@jacketheredge @lianpinglu @yhfighting @aixiaodeyanjing @hahahahahal @skhhhh @hahahalll @auroraaur @zhangchao111 @reneclaire @hasanoetken @xylinali @wang1217 @xiongxun526 @because20 @pppaaal @firstfir @carsoncheng @bodhisattamaiti @giligiliai @harshitsheoran @abdrah @uuwonderofuoo @danmer414 @amadeuskurisu @shashankshuklacodedl @prasanthnaidukaraka @vishakkbhat @fcarrillo051 @whitesmz @creazy555 @arkel23 @yangtunanh @shuotest3 @treasureminer @allenyuhao @zalone689 @verkaballer16 @kanematsuyuma @ssena8693 @benoitsvn @emperoraugusto @nkmrrytr @maobanno @natsu1218 @acmiyaguchi @murilogustineli @jasonkaheitam @vincenttran179 @salmanahmedtamu @jichuli @meownav @manpreet023 @abhaykabdwal @xuanbinhle @giligiliaidigger @campbell9527 @peixuanli1107 @nonoonondidadida @yuzhichencs @sunnanjisuanji @yeyang0919cs @beckyhodge @stefano7 @cjrbharath @htamlive", "votes": null }, { "id": "3218696", "postDate": "06/06/2025 15:28:53", "content": "@picekl Do you have the bibtex for the LifeCLEF 2025 and FungiCLEF 2025 papers yet?
", "rawMarkdown": "picekl Do you have the bibtex for the LifeCLEF 2025 and FungiCLEF 2025 papers yet?", "votes": null }, { "id": "3218797", "postDate": "06/06/2025 17:56:05", "content": "Hi @jacketheredge ,
\nNot yet. We will notify you through Easy Chair.
\nIt is not a problem before submitting the camera-ready :)
Best,
\nLukas
Hi @picekl
\nIs there a cut off on the number of working notes that will be published with respect to Fungiclef 2025? for example, will only the top 3 working notes be published? Please let us know.
\nThanks.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3193648, "author_name": "picekl", "author_url": "", "post_date": "05/04/2025 18:35:57", "content": "Hi @bodhisattamaiti,
\n\n\nAs in previous years, we encourage you to contribute by publishing a working note detailing your solution, even if you're not among the top-scoring participants! If you have an interesting method, ablation study, or novel insight—we want to hear from you!
\n
Therefore, literally anyone can submit. We will primarily evaluate the writing quality etc.
\nBest,
\nLukas
Hi @picekl, where can we find the working note template ?
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3198317, "author_name": "picekl", "author_url": "", "post_date": "05/09/2025 09:25:20", "content": "Hi @abdrah ,
\nSadly, no information has yet been shared with us (organizers). Once we will have all the info, we will let all of you know. Anyway, I bet this is the template for this year.
\nBest,
\nLukas
Congratulations to all FungiCLEF25 participants 🎉
\nWhether you cracked the top ranks or pushed your first submission across the finish line, your efforts are driving real progress in automated biodiversity monitoring.
\nNow that the competition has wrapped up, we’d love to hear more about your approaches. Submit a working note by June 7, 2025 via EasyChair using the CEUR-WS template.
\nPlease read more about the reasons, benefits, etc. in the post above.\nIn you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.
\n— Lukáš Picek (on behalf of the LifeCLEF organizing committee
\n@jacketheredge @lianpinglu @yhfighting @aixiaodeyanjing @hahahahahal @skhhhh @hahahalll @auroraaur @zhangchao111 @reneclaire @hasanoetken @xylinali @wang1217 @xiongxun526 @because20 @pppaaal @firstfir @carsoncheng @bodhisattamaiti @giligiliai @harshitsheoran @abdrah @uuwonderofuoo @danmer414 @amadeuskurisu @shashankshuklacodedl @prasanthnaidukaraka @vishakkbhat @fcarrillo051 @whitesmz @creazy555 @arkel23 @yangtunanh @shuotest3 @treasureminer @allenyuhao @zalone689 @verkaballer16 @kanematsuyuma @ssena8693 @benoitsvn @emperoraugusto @nkmrrytr @maobanno @natsu1218 @acmiyaguchi @murilogustineli @jasonkaheitam @vincenttran179 @salmanahmedtamu @jichuli @meownav @manpreet023 @abhaykabdwal @xuanbinhle @giligiliaidigger @campbell9527 @peixuanli1107 @nonoonondidadida @yuzhichencs @sunnanjisuanji @yeyang0919cs @beckyhodge @stefano7 @cjrbharath @htamlive
", "votes": null, "replies": [] }, { "id": 3218696, "author_name": "jacketheredge", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/06/2025 15:28:53", "content": "@picekl Do you have the bibtex for the LifeCLEF 2025 and FungiCLEF 2025 papers yet?
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 3218797, "author_name": "picekl", "author_url": "", "post_date": "06/06/2025 17:56:05", "content": "Hi @jacketheredge ,
\nNot yet. We will notify you through Easy Chair.
\nIt is not a problem before submitting the camera-ready :)
Best,
\nLukas