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

04/17/2024

IGN (French) Data Update

The IGN (French) data has been updated to version 1.1 with a minor change to pixel coordinates. The prior version translated coordinates for the cropped tile using rounded, integer coordinate. This update leads to subpixel differences is unlikely to have significant effects on any models trained using version 1.0.0.

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