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

06/15/2024

Competition Results Announced

Competition results have been released. From the ICDAR'24 report:

"The winners of the MapText competition are MapTest, MapText Strong Pipeline, and DINO MAP. MapTest and MapText Strong Pipeline participated in all tasks on both data sets and had the best overall performance among all performers. DINO MAP participated in task 1 and ranked place 1 and 2 for the French Land Registers and Rumsey data set, respectively. Also, we highlight DS-LP for its strong second-place rankings for task 2, task 3, and task 4 on the French Land Registers data set."

Congratulations to the participants.

The benchmark remains open indefinitely for new and ongoing submissions.

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