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

05/11/2017

MLT -- Updated Downloads

Some of the downloads of the MLT challenge have been updated. This will not affect your training process. See the explanation of the updates in the downloads page.

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