The LifeCLEF bird identication task provides a testbed for a system-oriented evaluation of 501 bird species identication. The main originality of this data is that it was specically built through a citizen science initiative conducted by Xeno-Canto, an international social net- work of amateur and expert ornithologists. This makes the task closer to the conditions of a real-world application than previous, similar ini- tiatives. This overview presents the resources and the assessments of the task, summarizes the retrieval approaches employed by the participating groups, and provides an analysis of the main evaluation results. With a total of ten groups from seven countries and with a total of twenty-nine runs submitted, involving distinct and original methods, this rst year task conrms the interest of the audio retrieval community for biodiver- sity and ornithology, and highlights further challenging studies in bird identication.
['Hervé Goëau', 'Hervé Glotin', 'Willem-Pier Vellinga', 'Robert Planqué', 'Andreas Rauber', 'Alexis Joly']
LifeCLEF Bird Identication Task 2014