The following announcement is from [ICDAR 2024 MapText Organizers]. Please contact them directly if you have any questions.

Call for participants 📅 Submission deadline: April 29th 2024 🏁 ICDAR 2024 Competition on Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking   Website: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=28 Contact: icdar24-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com Follow us: @ICDAR24_MapText

 

Important dates

• 1 February 2024: Training and validation data released
• 1 March 2024: Competition test data released
• 👉 29 April 2024: Final results submission deadline (EXTENDED, now accepting submissions on test set)

 

Task Overview

The competition encompasses four tasks:

1. word detection
2. phrase detection
3. word detection and recognition
4. phrase detection and recognition

Detailed descriptions of each task can be found on the official web page.

 

Call for Participation

Dear colleagues,

 

There is still time before the final deadline for participating in the ICDAR 2024 Competition on Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking!

To participate, register and submit your predictions on the test set until April 29th at: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=28

 

This competition aims to tackle the unique challenges of detecting and recognizing textual information (e.g., place names) and linking words to create location phrases from scanned historical map images.

 

Training, validation and test sets are available, along with evaluation tools. Follow us on Twitter (@ICDAR24_MapText) to stay updated with the latest news!

 

The competition is organized by seasoned competition organizers from the following institutions: University of Minnesota (USA), Grinnell College (USA), Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN, LASTIG (France), EHESS (France), EPITA (France).

 

We look forward to seeing your innovative solutions in action!

— ICDAR 2024 MapText Organizers

Published on April 19th, 2024Last updated on April 19th, 2024