🏆  ICDAR 2021 Competition on  🏆
                    Historical Map Segmentation

                      Call for Participation
             REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING (March 31)

                      April 5 – April 16, 2021
                         Online / Everywhere

                 https://icdar21-mapseg.github.io/
             icdar21-mapseg-contact(at)googlegroups.com
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Important Dates 📅
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– Registration deadline:  March 31, 2021
– Test phase (task 1):    April 5 – April 9, 2021
– Test phase (tasks 2&3): April 12 – April 16, 2021
– Reports deadline:       April 23, 2021
– Full data disclosure:   July 1, 2021

Overview 🗺️
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This competition consists in solving several challenges which arise
during the digitization of historical maps. We are particularly
interested in a large map series consisting in many Paris atlases over
half a century (1860's-1940's). For each year, a set of approximately
20 sheets forms a tiled view of the city. Such maps are highly detailed
and very accurate even by modern standards.

This material provides a very valuable resource for historians and a
rich body of scientific challenges for the document analysis and
recognition (DAR) community: map-related challenges (overlapping of
many information layers) and document-related ones (document
preservation).

We expect this competition to provide solutions for three levels of
scientific problems:

    Task 1: Detection of building blocks
    Task 2: Segmentation of map content within map sheets
    Task 3: Localization of graticule lines intersections

Key strengths for participants 🚀
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* Open and reproducible research:
  All datasets and evaluation tools are released with an open license.

* Good visibility:
  Winners of each task will be invited to co-author the report paper.

* Impactful:
  We propose unsolved research problems with an important potential
  impact.

Organizers 👷
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– LASTIG, Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN
  (the French National Mapping Agency)
– R&D Lab. of the EPITA
  (French engineering school in computer science)
– Center of Historical Studies of the EHESS
  (French graduate school of social sciences)

Contact 💬
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icdar21-mapseg-contact(at)googlegroups.com
https://twitter.com/ICDAR21_MapSeg