Section: Overall Objectives
Highlights of the year
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The final CHORUS conference identified cross-disciplinary challenges and recommendations in the domain of search engine technology. It had a great success: in addition to high representatives of the European Commission, the conference was attended by major industrial (e.g. Yahoo!, Thomson, Phillips, Exalead, etc.) and academic stakeholder of the search engine community (including representatives from North America and Japan).
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Pl@ntNet project Begining of the Pl@ntNet project “Plant Computational Identification & Collaborative Information System” http://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/fr/nos-actions/programmes-etendards/pl-ntnet.html . Accurate knowledge of the identity, geographic distribution and uses of plants underpins the success of agricultural development and biodiversity conservation. Unfortunately, such basic data are often hardly available for professional stakeholders, as well as for teachers, scientists and citizens. Pl@ntNet will contribute to bridge this knowledge gap by:
- Developing cutting-edge transdisciplinary researches at the frontier between integrative systematics and computational sciences, based on the exploitation of large datasets, knowledge and expertise on plant morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, biogeography and uses.
- Providing free, easy-access software tools and methods for plant identification and for the collection, management, share and exploitation.
- Promoting citizen science, as a powerful means to enrich databases with new informations on plants and to meet the need of capacity building in agronomy, botany and ecology.
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SHREC 2009 - Content-based retrieval of 3D generic models Our 3D alignment method coupled with one of our 2D/3D descriptors, the MDLA approach, has been positioned in the first place of the SHREC 2009 - Generic Shape retrieval Contest, with respect to the precision-recall measures.
