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

03/12/2015

Updated Challenge 4 datasets

The datasets of challenge 4 have been updated to correct minor errors in ground truthing that were reported to us during the first week of going public. Please download the updated Challenge 4 datasets from the downloads page.

The datasets will not change again until the competition is over. Please report any further mistakes you might encounter in the ground truth by emailing the organisers, we endevour to correct such mistakes soon after the competition takes place.

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