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