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

03/12/2015

Updated Challenge 4 datasets

The datasets of challenge 4 have been updated to correct minor errors in ground truthing that were reported to us during the first week of going public. Please download the updated Challenge 4 datasets from the downloads page.

The datasets will not change again until the competition is over. Please report any further mistakes you might encounter in the ground truth by emailing the organisers, we endevour to correct such mistakes soon after the competition takes place.

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