News - ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-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

Important Dates

March, 13: COCO-Text available. (train/val/test).

March, 19: Cropped words dataset available. (train/val).

March, 23: Annotations updated (v1.4).

March, 30: Cropped words dataset updated (v1.4).

May, 23:    Submissions opening.

June, 30: Submission of results deadline.

September, 28: Results publication.

November, 10-15: Results presentation.