** Call for Participation **

 

As part of the ImageCLEF2024 Lab - https://www.imageclef.org/ (The CLEF Cross Language Image Retrieval Track), which is a part of the 15th edition of CLEF 2024 (https://clef2024.imag.fr/), scheduled to take place from September 9 to 12, 2024, in Grenoble, we are pleased to introduce the first edition of the ToPicto task.

 

The goal of ToPicto is to bring together the scientific community (linguists, computer scientists, translators, etc.) to develop new translation methods to translate either speech or text into a corresponding sequence of pictograms.

 

We propose two distinct tasks:

- Text-to-Picto focuses on the automatic generation of a sequence of terms (each associated with an ARASAAC pictogram - https://arasaac.org/) from a French text. This challenge can be seen as a translation problem, where the source language is French, and the target language corresponds to the terms associated with each French pictogram.

- Speech-to-Picto aims to translate an audio segment into a sequence of terms, each associated with an ARASAAC pictogram. The challenge here lies in the absence of using textual data as input.

 

More information is available here: https://www.imageclef.org/2023/topicto

The training data has just been made public; it's your turn to engage!

 

To participate, follow the instructions provided here: https://www.imageclef.org/2024#registration.

 

Registrations for the tasks are now open:

- Text-to-Picto: https://ai4media-bench.aimultimedialab.ro/competitions/18/

- Speech-to-Picto: https://ai4media-bench.aimultimedialab.ro/competitions/19/

 

Important dates:

- 22.04.2024 registration closes for all ImageCLEF tasks

- 01.04.2024 Test data release starts

- 01.05.2024 Deadline for submitting the participants runs

- 13.05.2024 Release of the processed results by the task organizers

- 31.05.2024 Deadline for submission of working notes papers by the participants

- 21.06.2024 Notification of acceptance of the working notes papers

- 08.07.2024 Camera ready working notes papers

- 09-12.09.2024 CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France