News - ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text
02/17/2023Updated training/validation set
Dear participants,
Update:
[17/02]: The training and validation dataset has been updated to also contain list and unanswerable questions. Question-answer pairs from the previous subset have been revised.
The links under Download have been updated to point to the newest annotations file, as well as to the binaries with some patched OCR files.
For the easiest access to the latest version of the dataset, we suggest you use DUDE_loader on HuggingFace Datasets.
Challenge News
Important Dates
March, 13: COCO-Text available. (train/val/test).
March, 19: Cropped words dataset available. (train/val).
March, 23: Annotations updated (v1.4).
March, 30: Cropped words dataset updated (v1.4).
May, 23: Submissions opening.
June, 30: Submission of results deadline.
September, 28: Results publication.
November, 10-15: Results presentation.