News - ICDAR2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Large-scale Street View Text with Partial Labeling

04/17/2024

IGN (French) Data Update

The IGN (French) data has been updated to version 1.1 with a minor change to pixel coordinates. The prior version translated coordinates for the cropped tile using rounded, integer coordinate. This update leads to subpixel differences is unlikely to have significant effects on any models trained using version 1.0.0.

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 (10,000 images),

20th April

i) Release of the second part of test set images (10,000 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 one page competition report, and the final ranking will be released after results checking.

20th to 25th September

i) Announcement of competition results at ICDAR2019.