Robust Reading Competition Challenge 2: Reading Text in Scene Images
This Challenge of the Robust Reading Competition is organized by DFKI. To visit Challenge 1 - Reading Text in Born-Digital Images (Web and Email) organized by CVC, please visit http://www.cvc.uab.es/icdar2011competition/.
Text Localization Task
* Images courtesy of ICDAR'03 Robust Reading Competition
Word Recognition Task
* Images courtesy of ICDAR'03 Robust Reading Competition
Training Dataset
Training data is available now on following links:
- Training Data Text Localization http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/train-textloc.zip
- Training Data Word Recognition http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/train-wordrec.zip
Test Dataset
Test data is available now on following links:
- Test Data Text Localization http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/test-textloc.zip
- Test Data Word Recognition http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/test-wordrec.zip
- Test Data Text Localization + Ground Truth http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/test-textloc-gt.zip
- Test Data Word Recognition + Ground Truth http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/test-wordrec-gt.zip
Citation
If you use the competition dataset, please cite our competition paper:
- Shahab, Asif; Shafait, Faisal; Dengel, Andreas; , "ICDAR 2011 Robust Reading Competition Challenge 2: Reading Text in Scene Images," International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 , pp.1491-1496, 18-21 Sept. 2011
Evaluation Software
We used DetEval evaluation software from Christian Wolf for evaluation of text localization. The software is available at http://liris.cnrs.fr/christian.wolf/software/deteval/index.html
- Training Data in xml format for DetEval: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/train-gt-textloc-wolf.xml
- Training Data in xml format for DetEval: http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~shahab/robustreading/test-gt-textloc-wolf.xml
Submission due by 03, June 2011, via email to Asif.Shahab@…
Schedule
- Training Set Available: 30, March 2011
- Test Set Available: 01, June 2011
- Testing Period: 01-03, June 2011
- Submission of Results: 03, June 2011
- ICDAR Camera Ready Paper: 15, June 2011
Resources
- Robust Reading Competition ICDAR'2003/05 Dataset http://algoval.essex.ac.uk/icdar/Datasets.html
Contact
Asif Shahab,
Faisal Shafait,
Andreas Dengel
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence DFKI
Kaiserslautern, Germany
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