News - Video Text Reading Competition for Dense and Small Text

03/28/2025

Deadline Extended

Great news for all participants of the ICDAR 2025 MapText Competition! To align with the main conference deadlines, we are extending the final submission deadline to April 20, 2025.

This gives you extra time to refine your methods, improve your results, and finalize your reports. If you haven’t submitted yet, now is the perfect opportunity to enhance your approach and showcase your innovations in historical map text detection and recognition.

Challenge News

Important Dates

20st December to 30st December, 2022

i) Q&A period for the competition,

ii) The launching of the initial website

2st February 2023

i) Sample training videos available,

ii) Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available.

15st February 2023

i) Competition kicks off officially,

ii) Release of training set videos and ground truth (50 videos).

15th March 2023:

i) Test set is available (50 videos)

ii) Website opens for results submission.

20th March 2023

I) Deadline of the competition and result submission closes(at PDT 23: 59)

31th March 2023

Submission deadline for 1 page competition report, and the final ranking will be released after results checking.

21th to 26th August , 2023

Announcement of competition results at ICDAR2023.