News - ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Reading Chinese Text on Signboard

04/17/2024

IGN (French) Data Update

The IGN (French) data has been updated to version 1.1 with a minor change to pixel coordinates. The prior version translated coordinates for the cropped tile using rounded, integer coordinate. This update leads to subpixel differences is unlikely to have significant effects on any models trained using version 1.0.0.

Challenge News

Important Dates

1 March 2019: Web site ready and Registration open

18 March 2019: Training set available

12 April 2019: The first part of test set available

20 April 2019: The second part of test set available, and Website opens for result submission

30 April 2019: Submission of results deadline

10 May 2019: Deadline for providing short descriptions of the participating methods

20-25 September 2019: Results presentation