January 21st, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise
Call for participants
ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking
Website: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
Contact: icdar25-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com
Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news
Submission deadline: April 1st, 2025 (train/val sets available now)
Important dates
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2024-12-10: Website live, train/val sets available
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2025-01-14: Accepting submissions for val set., evaluation tools released
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2025-03-01: Test set available, submissions are open
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2024-04-01: Final submission deadline, including short reports
Task Overview
The competition encompasses four tasks:
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word detection
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phrase detection
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word detection and recognition
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phrase detection and recognition.
Detailed descriptions of each task can be found on the official web page.
ICDAR25 MapText Challenge: Call for Participation
Dear colleagues,
After a successful 2024 edition, we are pleased to announce the 2025 edition of the ICDAR Competition on Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking. This edition still focuses on text detection and recognition in challenging historical map images, and introduces several new features:
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expanded data for the French Land Registers dataset
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addition of a new Taiwanese maps dataset from the GIS Center at Academia Sinica, featuring Chinese characters
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release of large synthetic training data for each dataset
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improved evaluation metrics and indicators for better feedback
We would like to invite you to register and participate using the following links:
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Official competition platform: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
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Receive updates by email: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news
You can start developing and evaluating your method right now thanks to our public training and validation data, as well as our public evaluation platform. You can also run our open evaluation code offline.
This competition is organized by experienced competition organizers from the following organizations: University of Minnesota (USA), Grinnell College (USA), Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN, LASTIG (France), EHESS (France), EPITA (France), Academia Sinica (Taiwan).
Looking forward to benchmarking your innovative solutions!
— ICDAR 2025 MapText Organizers
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