News - ICDAR2017 Competition on Multi-lingual scene text detection and script identification

02/19/2023

Multipage DocVQA Dataset is public!

We have released the dataset for Multipage Document Visual Question Answering (MP-DocVQA). You can find it in the Downloads section under the Task 4 section.

We are currently working on the evaluation protocol to allow you submit your results and be ranked in the leaderboard, but currently it is still closed.

If you are interested in this task, you can find more information in the paper Hierarchical multimodal transformers for Multi-Page DocVQA.

Important Dates

1 Feb to 31 Mar

  • Manifestation of interest by participants opens
  • Asking/Answering questions about the details of the competition Initial website available

1 Mar

  • Competition formal announcement

31 Mar

  • Website fully ready
  • Registration of participants continues
  • Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available

1 Apr to 31 May

  • Train set available - training period - MLT challenge in progress -Participants evaluate their methods on the training/validation sets - Prepare for submission
  • Registration is still open

1 Jun

  • Registration closes for this MLT challenge for ICDAR-2017

1 Jun to 1 Jul

  • Test set available

1 Jul

  • Deadline for submission of results by participants

1 Nov

  • The public release of the full dataset