News - Comics Understanding

02/28/2023

DUDE - Updated submission schedule

Dear participants, 

Following inquiries regarding the submission schedule, we have opted to better align the submissions for evaluation phase 1 (test set for Task 1) and for evaluation phase 2 (domain shift and selective question-answering).

We hope that this renewed schedule gives participants more clarity and time to work on their submissions (3 weeks, 1 week for method description) for either evaluation phase. We would urge participants to submit method descriptions (just a couple of paragraphs to understand the overall idea) together with their submissions as the competition report deadline is strict. We would not want to disqualify any team for not providing their method description in time. wink 

When giving participants access to questions from the test set, we will provide a mixture of the questions from evaluation phase 1 and phase 2.
Submissions for phase 1 would need to only provide the answers key and preferably answers_confidence for calibration evaluation.
Submissions for phase 2 would need to as well provide both the keys answers_confidence and answers_abstain for all question-answer pairs. 

Cheers, 

The DUDEs

Challenge News

Important Dates

ICDAR 2025 Edition

17-21/09/2025: Results presentation

30/04/2025: Submission of Technical Report

22/04/2025: Deadline for Competition submissions

25/02/2025: Benchmark model and Dev sets v0.1

19/02/2025: Test/Val sets v0.1 available

10/01/2025: Tasks have been updated for the ICDAR 2025 Comics Competition (https://www.icdar2025.com/program/competitions)

 

CoMix Benchmark

November 2024: The dataset & evaluation repository CoMix https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/CoMix have been released