## One account per participant You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot submit from multiple accounts. ## No private sharing outside teams Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted. It is okay to share code if made available to all participants on the forums. ## Team Mergers Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the team leader. In order to merge, the combined team must have a total submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the merge date. The maximum allowed is the number of submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running. ## Team Limits Maximum team size is 5. ## Submission Limits You may submit a maximum of 3 entries per day. You may select up to 5 final submissions for judging. ## Competition Timeline Competition Timeline dates are reflected on the competition’s Overview > Timeline page. # COMPETITION-SPECIFIC TERMS Competition Name (the 'Competition'): GeoLifeCLEF 2023 - [LifeCLEF 2023](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2023) x [FGVC10](https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc10) Competition Sponsors: Horizon Europe project [MAMBO](https://www.mambo-project.eu/), [FGVC10](https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc9), [LifeCLEF 2023](https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2023) and Inria Competition Acknowledgements: Alexis Joly, Christophe Botella, Benjamin Deneu, Diego Marcos, Théo Larcher, Joachim Estopinan, César Leblanc, Maximilien Servajean (hosts) Competition Website: [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/geolifeclef-2023-lifeclef-2023-x-fgvc10/), [LifeCLEF 2023](https://www.imageclef.org/GeoLifeCLEF2023) and [FGVC10](https://sites.google.com/view/fgvc10/competitions/geolifeclef2023) Workshop Sponsors: Horizon Europe project [MAMBO](https://www.mambo-project.eu/), COS4CLOUD and Inria (LifeCLEF 2023), Visipedia and Google (FGVC10) ## INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS. A. Individual Account. You may make Submissions only under one, unique Kaggle.com account. You will be disqualified if you make Submissions through more than one Kaggle account, or attempt to falsify an account to act as your proxy. You may submit up to the maximum number of Submissions per day as specified on the Competition Website. B. Teams. If permitted under the Competition Website guidelines, multiple individuals may collaborate as a team (a "Team"); however, you may join or form only one Team. Each Team member must be a single individual with a separate Kaggle account. You must register individually for the Competition before joining a Team. You must confirm your Team membership to make it official by responding to the Team notification message sent to your Kaggle account. Team membership may not exceed the Maximum Team Size stated on the Competition Website. C. Team Merger. Teams may request to merge via the Competition Website. Team mergers may be allowed provided that: (i) the combined Team does not exceed the Maximum Team Size; (ii) the number of Submissions made by the merging Teams does not exceed the number of Submissions permissible for one Team at the date of the merger request; (iii) the merger is completed before the earlier of: any merger deadline or the Competition deadline; and (iv) the proposed combined Team otherwise meets all the requirements of these Rules. ## External Data. Do not cheat. The general rule is that participants should only use the provided training and validation data for training models to classify the test images. We do not want participants crawling the web in search of additional data. Pretrained models may be used to construct the algorithms from publicly available academic datasets (e.g., ImageNet, GeoLifeCLEF 2020-2022). Please specify any and all external data and/or models used for training when uploading results. Participants are allowed to collect additional annotations on the provided training sets. Participants are not allowed to collect annotations on the test set. Teams should specify that they collected additional annotations when submitting results. ## DETERMINING WINNERS. Each Submission will be scored and ranked by the evaluation metric stated on the Competition Website. During the Competition Period, the current ranking will be visible on the Competition Website's public leaderboard. The potential winner(s) are determined solely by the leaderboard ranking on the private leaderboard, subject to compliance with these Rules. The public leaderboard will be based on the public test set and the private leaderboard will be based on the private test set. In the event of a tie, the Submission that was entered first to the Competition will be the winner. In the event a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the Submission that received the next highest score rank will be chosen as the potential winner. Participants are encouraged to register to LifeCLEF 2023 lab and submit a working note describing your methodology to maximize their visibility. This can be done using this form (and checking "Task 3 - GeoLifeCLEF" of "LifeCLEF" section). This registration is free of charge. This registration will give you the opportunity to present your results to the CLEF community, during the LifeCLEF session of CLEF 2023, if you win the challenge AND submit a working note. By doing so, you are guaranteed that your results will be documented in the vhallenge overvieww publication.