2/2 The winning methods will be featured in the ICDAR Proceedings Paper, and winners will have the opportunity to receive certificates on stage at the ICDAR conference in Wuhan!🥳

1/2 ✨ICDAR25 MapText Comp has released the test dataset✨, with submission deadline at April 1, 2025. 👉 rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32&com=in…

ICDAR MapText Competition is back for 2025 with new datasets and much more! 🥳 Winners will be awarded and announced at the ICDAR conference.📷Website: rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32

After a successful year 2024, we are pleased to announce the new 2025 edition of the ICDAR MapText Competition! 🥳 We offer expanded data for the French Land Registers dataset, new Taiwanese maps featuring Chinese characters and much more! 👉Website: rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32

Due to technical issues during submission, we have decided to extend the deadline to May 6th. Please make a submission at your earliest convenience if you would like to participate.

In case you are unaware yet, the submission portal for the test data is open! 📭

🚩Submission deadline will be extended to April 15th, 2024🚩

Competition test data was made available on March 4th, try out your approach on the test data!🦾Submission portal will be open soon 👷

Sample data is ready to download now if you want to start playing around with it!👉 rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=28&com=do…

📅 Save the date! Training and validation data drop on Feb 1st. Don't miss out on the chance to showcase your skills in text spotting. Sign up now! Follow @ICDAR24_MapText for the latest updates. @DavidRumseyMaps #TextSpotting #OCR #TextDetection #Recognition

Excited about text detection and recognition? Join us for the ICDAR24 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking! 🗺️ Hosted by @UMNComputerSci, @GrinnellCollege, @EPITA, @IGN, and @EHESS_fr. Details: rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=28&com=in… #ICDAR24