ICDAR2017 Competitions
We are pleased to announce that the ICDAR2017 will organize a set of competitions dedicated to a large set of document analysis problems. You are cordially invited to participate to this scientific event that will be a very good opportunity to objectively compare the quality of algorithms on different categories of challenges. You will find below the different categories of competitions, and the URL of their respective website, that will allow you to get all the required information for participating:
Category: Handwritten Historical Document Layout Recognition
- cBAD: ICDAR2017 Competition on Baseline Detection
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Layout Analysis for Challenging Medieval Manuscripts
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Historical Book Analysis
Category: Historical Handwritten Script Analysis
- ICDAR 2017 Competition on the Classification of Medieval Handwritings in Latin Script
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Historical Document Writer Identification (Historical-WI)
- Competition on Multi-script Writer Identification Using LAMIS-MSHD and CERUG Databases
Category: Character/Word Spotting
- Competition on Query-by-Example Glyph Spotting of Southeast Asian Palm Leaf Manuscript Images
- Handwritten Keyword Spotting Competition
Category: Handwriting Recognition
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Handwritten Text Recognition on the READ Dataset
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Information Extraction in Historical Handwritten Records
Category: Document Image Binarization
Category: Document Recognition (Layout analysis & Text Recognition)
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Page Object Detection
Category: Document Reconstruction
Category: Post OCR Correction
Category: Robust Reading Competitions
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild (RCTW-17)
- ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on COCO-Text
- ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on Text Extraction from Biomedical Literature Figures (DeTEXT)
- ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on Omnidirectional Video
- ICDAR2017 Robust Reading Challenge on Multi-lingual Scene Text Detection and Script Identification – RRC-MLT
Category: Text in Video
- ICDAR2017 Competition on Arabic Text Detection and Recognition in Multi-resolution Video Frames
- Competition on Video Script Identification
Category: Forensics
Category: Miscellaneous Competitions
Inquiries
For any inquiries you may have regarding a specific competition, please contact the organizers of the competition.
For inquiries about the whole of ICDAR2017 competition, please contact the ICDAR2017 Competition Chairs (Jean-Marc Ogier and Marcus Liwicki) via:
icdar2017-competition *** m.cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp (please replace *** with atmark).