News - ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text

04/23/2024

Rumsey (General) Data Update 2

Some annotations were revised to correct errors in grouping; additionally, annotations using non-Roman (e.g., Cyrillic) characters have been marked as "illegible" so that they are treated as "don't care" values during evaluation.

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.