**This competition is held jointly as part of:**

- the [LifeCLEF 2026](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2026) lab of the [CLEF 2026](http://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu) conference, and of
- the [FGVC13](https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc13) workshop organized in conjunction with [CVPR 2026](http://cvpr.thecvf.com) conference.
**Being part of scientific research, the participants are encouraged to participate to both events.
In particular, only participants who submitted a working note paper to LifeCLEF (see below) will be part of the officially published ranking used for scientific communication.**


FGVC13 at CVPR 2026
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This competition is part of the **Fine-Grained Visual Categorization [FGVC13](https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc13) workshop** at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference [CVPR 2026](http://cvpr.thecvf.com). The task results will be presented at the workshop, and the contribution of the winning team(s) will be highlighted. Attending the workshop is not required to participate in the competition.

**CVPR 2026 will take place in Denver, USA, on June 3-7, 2025.**  

A list of the other FGVC13 competitions [here](https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc13/competitions).

LifeCLEF 2026 at CLEF 2026
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LifeCLEF lab is part of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum ([CLEF](http://www.clef-initiative.eu)).  
CLEF consists of independent peer-reviewed workshops on a broad range of challenges in multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation and benchmarking activities in various labs designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information retrieval systems.  
**CLEF 2025 will take place in Jena, Germany, on September 21-24, 2026.**  
You can find more details on the [CLEF 2026 website](http://clef2026.clef-initiative.eu).