Overview of the ImageCLEF 2017 Population Estimation (Remote) Task

Estimating population has many applications as planning disaster responses, communication infrastructure, or development activities. In 2017, ImageCLEF Lab introduced a new pilot task: the Population Estimation (or Remote) task which aims at estimating the population of an area of interest by exploring Copernicus earth observation data (i.e. free Sentinel-2 satellite images). In line with the goal of FabSpace 2.0 project, a European Unions initiative to bring Geo-Enthusiast together around the 6 European universities in collaboration with Business Incubation Centers, participated to this challenge. This paper presents the results that were obtained by the participants as well as a brief summary of some of the approaches that were used

FabSpaces at ImageCLEF 2017 - Population Estimation (Remote) Task

International audienceThe paper summarizes the participation of the 6 FabSpaces to the population estimation (remote) pilot task at ImageCLEF 2017 Lab. FabSpace 2.0 is an open-innovation network for geodata-driven innovation that aims at improving universities contribution to the socioeconomic and environmental performance of societies. In the framework of the ImageCLEF Lab, the 6 FabSpaces participated although only four of them succeeded in submitting a run. This paper summarizes their participations. For each FabSpace, we present the local organization to participate to the CLEF Lab, the participants and their work. We conclude this paper with some lessons we learned from this participation