News - ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Multi-lingual scene text detection and recognition
08/01/2020The challenge continues in ICDAR 2021
The second edition of this challenge will take place in the context of the 16th Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2021. We plan for certain updates in the data and evaluation metrics for this edition - details to appear soon in the description of the tasks.
Challenge News
- 05/03/2019
MLT-2019 Deadlines and process of results submission - 05/02/2019
MLT-2019 Test Set Available - 03/15/2019
MLT-2019 Train Set Available
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