News - ICDAR2017 Competition on Multi-lingual scene text detection and script identification

03/05/2015

Datasets are now available

Datasets for training and testing are now available for the new tasks for the 2015 edition of the competition:

T1.4 - End-to-End on Born digital images

T2.4 - End-to-End on Focused scene text images

T3.4 - End-to-End on Video sequences

T4.1 - Text Localisation in Incidental scene text images

T4.3 - Word Recognition in Incidental scene text images

T4.1 - End-to-End on Incidental scene text images

In addition, the datasets for the following task have been updated:

T3.1 - Text Localisation in Video sequences

Important Dates

1 Feb to 31 Mar

  • Manifestation of interest by participants opens
  • Asking/Answering questions about the details of the competition Initial website available

1 Mar

  • Competition formal announcement

31 Mar

  • Website fully ready
  • Registration of participants continues
  • Evaluation protocol, file formats etc. available

1 Apr to 31 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

1 Jun

  • Registration closes for this MLT challenge for ICDAR-2017

1 Jun to 1 Jul

  • Test set available

1 Jul

  • Deadline for submission of results by participants

1 Nov

  • The public release of the full dataset