We’re excited to announce that the test set for the ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking is now available!
With just a month to go before the April 1, 2025 deadline, now is the time to put your methods to the test and showcase your innovations in historical map text recognition.
Description
Text on digitized historical maps contains valuable information providing georeferenced political and cultural context, yet the wealth of information in digitized historical maps remains largely inaccessible due to their unsearchable raster format. This competition aims to address the unique challenges of detecting and recognizing textual information (e.g., place names) and linking words to form location phrases.
While the detection and recognition tasks share similarities with the long line of prior robust reading competitions [1,2], historical map text extraction presents challenges such as dense text regions, rotated and curved text and widely spaced characters which are not very common in scene text extraction problems. The word linking task, in particular, is quite challenging as words can be highly spaced with complicated text-like distractors, even other words appearing between the characters. Furthermore, words within a single location phrase may be divided across multiple lines to optimize label placement. The figure below illustrates primary challenges.
This 2025 edition is the continuation of the successful 2024 edition. This edition introduces several new features:
1. expanded data for the French Land Registers dataset
2. addition of a new Taiwanese maps dataset from the GIS Center at Academia Sinica, featuring Chinese characters
3. release of synthetic training data for each dataset
4. improved evaluation metrics and indicators for better feedback
Why Participate?
Top teams will be invited to co-author the official competition report published at ICDAR 2025.
Winners will be recognized on stage at the main ICDAR conference and receive an award.
Benchmark your approach against other leading researchers in the field.
Key Updates
Test set available! Download all three subsets from the competition platform.
Submissions open! Submit your results and method descriptions via the platform.
Final deadline: April 1, 2025.
This is your chance to contribute to cutting-edge research in historical map text detection and recognition! Don't miss out—download the test set and get started today!
Competition page & details:
https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
Stay updated:
https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news
Looking forward to seeing your groundbreaking contributions to this exciting challenge!
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