News - ICDAR2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Arbitrary-Shaped Text

03/25/2015

IMPORTANT: Downtime and Deadline Extension

Due to reasons beyond our control related to maintenance tasks throughout the University Campus hosting the Robust Reading Competition portal, the Web portal of the Robust Reading Competition might experience short periods of downtime during 30/3 and 31/3.

As this downtime interferes with the submission process the deadline has been extended by two days to Thursday 2/4 at 23:59 CET.

We strongly advice to download the datasets required for doing your experiments early, so that you can keep working on your submissions during any possible downtime of the portal.

If you encounter any difficulty whatsoever, please let us know and we will do our best to help out. During this time, please make use of both rrc@cvc.uab.es and robustreadingcompetition@gmail.com to contact us.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this might cause.

Important Dates

1st January to 1st March

i) Q&A period for the competition,

ii) The launching of initial website

15th Feb to 1st March

i) Competition formal announcement,

ii) Publicity,

iii) Sample training images available,

iv) Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available.

25th February

i) Evaluation tools ready,

ii) Full website ready.

1st March

i) Competition kicks off officially,

ii) Release of training set images and ground truth.

9th April

Release of the first part of test set images (2271 images),

20th April

i) Release of the second part of test set images (2292 images).

ii) Website opens for results submission

30th April

i) Deadline of the competition and result submission closes(at PDT 23: 59)

ii) Release of the evaluation results.

5th May

i) Submission deadline for 1 page competition report, and the final ranking will be released after results checking.

20th to 25th September

i) Announcement of competition results at ICDAR2019.