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

06/15/2024

Competition Results Announced

Competition results have been released. From the ICDAR'24 report:

"The winners of the MapText competition are MapTest, MapText Strong Pipeline, and DINO MAP. MapTest and MapText Strong Pipeline participated in all tasks on both data sets and had the best overall performance among all performers. DINO MAP participated in task 1 and ranked place 1 and 2 for the French Land Registers and Rumsey data set, respectively. Also, we highlight DS-LP for its strong second-place rankings for task 2, task 3, and task 4 on the French Land Registers data set."

Congratulations to the participants.

The benchmark remains open indefinitely for new and ongoing submissions.

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