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

03/09/2023

DUDE - Test Set Available

Dear participants,

The ground truth annotations and binaries have been updated to include the test set on which you can submit predictions.  See the Downloads section for the latest updates.
We are looking forward to your submissions and we hope there will be interesting novelties in the methods used.

Cheers, 

the DUDEs cool 

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