News - ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Multi-lingual scene text detection and recognition

03/05/2015

Datasets are now available

Datasets for training and testing are now available for the new tasks for the 2015 edition of the competition:

T1.4 - End-to-End on Born digital images

T2.4 - End-to-End on Focused scene text images

T3.4 - End-to-End on Video sequences

T4.1 - Text Localisation in Incidental scene text images

T4.3 - Word Recognition in Incidental scene text images

T4.1 - End-to-End on Incidental scene text images

In addition, the datasets for the following task have been updated:

T3.1 - Text Localisation in Video sequences

Important Dates

15 Feb to 2 May

Manifestation of interest by participants opens

Asking/Answering questions about the details of the competition

1 Mar

Competition formal announcement

15 Mar

Website fully ready

Registration of participants continues

Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available

15 Mar to 2 May

Train set available - training period - MLT challenge in progress -Participants evaluate their methods on the training/validation sets - Prepare for submission

Registration is still open

2 May

Registration closes for this MLT challenge for ICDAR-2019

2 May to 3 June

Test set available

27 May

Deadline for submitting: 1) participant information (names and affiliation), 2) methods description, 3) initial (or final) results

3 June

Deadline for submission of the final results by participants

20 - 25 Sept

Announcement of results at ICDAR2019

1 Oct

The public release of the full dataset