News - ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Multi-lingual scene text detection and recognition

12/13/2022

Results temporarily hidden and how you can request them.

Currently, the results are hidden because of an ongoing competition.

If you do not wish to participate in the competition but still want to evaluate your methods on HierText test set (e.g. in your research paper), you can email us requesting it. You will first need to submit your inference results via this website, and send us an email with your real names using your institutional email (e.g. edu, corp email). After verification, we will then send the evaluation results back to you

Important Dates

15 Feb to 2 May

Manifestation of interest by participants opens

Asking/Answering questions about the details of the competition

1 Mar

Competition formal announcement

15 Mar

Website fully ready

Registration of participants continues

Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available

15 Mar to 2 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

2 May

Registration closes for this MLT challenge for ICDAR-2019

2 May to 3 June

Test set available

27 May

Deadline for submitting: 1) participant information (names and affiliation), 2) methods description, 3) initial (or final) results

3 June

Deadline for submission of the final results by participants

20 - 25 Sept

Announcement of results at ICDAR2019

1 Oct

The public release of the full dataset