News - ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text

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

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.