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

12/10/2024

Competition is live!

Dear participants and colleagues,

the website for this new edition of the competition is now live.

You can browse the different sections and check metrics, datasets and evaluation code freely.

Please subscribe to our announcement mailing list to receive updates : https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news

Should you have any question, please reach us at icdar25-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com

Looking forward to receiving your contributions,

— MapText'25 team

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