Submission Guidelines

LSC'25 - The 8th annual ACM Lifelog Search  Challenge (http://lifelogsearch.org/isc/) is a participation workshop at the ACM ICMR’25 conference in June 2025 in Chicago, US. LSC is a highly entertaining and challenging workshop focused around a live lifelog search competition, where researchers evaluate and demonstrate their multimodal interactive lifelog search engine on a shared dataset in front of a live audience. At the LSC workshop, each participating team gives a short presentation about their interactive lifelog search system which is then followed by the live interactive search competition in which teams compete to solve a variety of search tasks in the shortest time possible.  We encourage anyone with an exploratory multimedia search tool that allows for retrieval, interactive browsing, exploration, or navigation in a multimedia collection to participate. An accompanying dataset is used for the challenge, which consists of 18 months of fully anonymised and redacted multimodal lifelog data (continuous capture images, locations, activities). The lifelog was gathered 24x7 from one individual. Teams can apply for access to the dataset by following the instructions on the LSC’25 website (http://lifelogsearch.org/lsc/). 

In order to participate, a team must submit a paper that describes their interactive search engine and how it operates by 10 April 2025 following the instructions of the LSC’25 website (http://lifelogsearch.org/lsc/). Papers must be formatted according to the ACM proceedings style, must not exceed 6 pages in length and be written in the English language. LSC’25 will use a single-blind review process for paper and system selection. Submissions should be made through the LSC’25 EasyChair submission site (http://lifelogsearch.org/lsc/). All accepted LSC’25 papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library in the LSC workshop series.

Organising Committee

• Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
• Björn Þór Jónsson (Reykjavik University)
• Duc Tien Dang Nguyen (University of Bergen)
• Jakub Lokoc (Charles University)
• Klaus Schoeffmann (Klagenfurt University)
• Steve Hodges (Lancaster University)
• Minh-Triet Tran (VNU HCM University of Science)
• Graham Healy (Dublin City University)
• Luca Rossetto (Dublin City University)
• Werner Bailer (Joanneum Research)

Publication

LSC25 proceedings will be published in the ACM Workshop Proceedings of the Lifelog Search Challenge 2025.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cathal.gurrin@dcu.ie