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

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

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