News - Video Text Reading Competition for Dense and Small Text

08/01/2020

The 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

Important Dates

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.