News - Video Text Reading Competition for Dense and Small Text

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

20st December to 30st December, 2022

i) Q&A period for the competition,

ii) The launching of the initial website

2st February 2023

i) Sample training videos available,

ii) Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available.

15st February 2023

i) Competition kicks off officially,

ii) Release of training set videos and ground truth (50 videos).

15th March 2023:

i) Test set is available (50 videos)

ii) Website opens for results submission.

20th March 2023

I) Deadline of the competition and result submission closes(at PDT 23: 59)

31th March 2023

Submission deadline for 1 page competition report, and the final ranking will be released after results checking.

21th to 26th August , 2023

Announcement of competition results at ICDAR2023.