Overview of PlantCLEF 2024: multi-species plant identification in vegetation plot images⋆

Goeau Hervé, Espitalier Vincent, Bonnet Pierre, Joly Alexis. 2024. Overview of PlantCLEF 2024: multi-species plant identification in vegetation plot images⋆. In : Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024). Faggioli Guglielmo (ed.), Ferro Nicola (ed.), Galuščáková Petra (ed.), García Seco de Herrera Alba (ed.). Aachen : CEUR-WS, 1978-1988. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3740) Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024), Grenoble, France, 9 Septembre 2024/12 Septembre 2024.

Résumé : Plot images are essential for ecological studies, enabling standardized sampling, biodiversity assessment, longterm monitoring and remote, large-scale surveys. Plot images are typically fifty centimetres or one square meter in size, and botanists meticulously identify all the species found there. The integration of AI could significantly improve the efficiency of specialists, helping them to extend the scope and coverage of ecological studies. To evaluate advances in this regard, the PlantCLEF 2024 challenge leverages a new test set of thousands of multi-label images annotated by experts and covering over 800 species. In addition, it provides a large training set of 1.7 million individual plant images as well as state-of-the-art vision transformer models pre-trained on this data. The task is evaluated as a (weakly-labeled) multi-label classification task where the aim is to predict all the plant species present on a high-resolution plot image (using the single-label training data). In this paper, we provide an detailed description of the data, the evaluation methodology, the methods and models employed by the participants and the results achieved.

Mots-clés libres : LifeCLEF, Fine-grained classification, Species identification, Vegetation plot images, Multi-label classification, Biodiversity informatics, Evaluation, Benchmark

Agences de financement européennes : European Commission

Programme de financement européen : Horizon Europe

Projets sur financement : (EU) safeGUARDing biodivErsity aNd critical ecosystem services across sectors and scales, (EU) Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of BiOdiversity

Auteurs et affiliations

• Goeau Hervé, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR AMAP (FRA)
• Espitalier Vincent, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR AMAP (FRA)
• Bonnet Pierre, CIRAD-BIOS-UMR AMAP (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-2828-4389
• Joly Alexis, INRIA (FRA)

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