News - Video Text Reading Competition for Dense and Small Text

02/28/2023

DUDE - Updated submission schedule

Dear participants, 

Following inquiries regarding the submission schedule, we have opted to better align the submissions for evaluation phase 1 (test set for Task 1) and for evaluation phase 2 (domain shift and selective question-answering).

We hope that this renewed schedule gives participants more clarity and time to work on their submissions (3 weeks, 1 week for method description) for either evaluation phase. We would urge participants to submit method descriptions (just a couple of paragraphs to understand the overall idea) together with their submissions as the competition report deadline is strict. We would not want to disqualify any team for not providing their method description in time. wink 

When giving participants access to questions from the test set, we will provide a mixture of the questions from evaluation phase 1 and phase 2.
Submissions for phase 1 would need to only provide the answers key and preferably answers_confidence for calibration evaluation.
Submissions for phase 2 would need to as well provide both the keys answers_confidence and answers_abstain for all question-answer pairs. 

Cheers, 

The DUDEs

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.