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Introducing the iNaturalist 2018 Challenge

Friday, March 9, 2018

Posted by Yang Song, Staff Software Engineer and Serge Belongie, Visiting Faculty, Google Researchdeep learningself-driving carsvirtual realityfine-grainedinstance-level recognitioninstance-level landmark recognition challengelong tail2018 iNaturalist ChallengeiNaturalistVisipediaFGVC5CVPR 2018iNat-2017KaggleGitHub repothe following photo

The map on the right shows where the photo was taken. Image credit: Serge Belongie.

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Distribution of training images per species for iNat-2017 and iNat-2018, plotted on a log-linear scale, illustrating the long-tail behavior typical of fine-grained classification problems. Image Credit: Grant Van Horn and Oisin Mac Aodha.

FGVC5furniture categorization challengeFGVCxFGVC5CVPR 2018competitionsAcknowledgementsWe’d like to thank our colleagues and friends at iNaturalist, Visipedia, and FGVC5 for working together to advance this important area. At Google we would like to thank Hartwig Adam, Weijun Wang, Nathan Frey, Andrew Howard, Alessandro Fin, Yuning Chai, Xiao Zhang, Jack Sim, Yuan Li, Grant Van Horn, Yin Cui, Chen Sun, Yanan Qian, Grace Vesom, Tanya Birch, Celeste Chung, Wendy Kan, and Maggie Demkin.