[Call for participants] ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text
Joseph Chazalon
Call for participants
ICDAR 2025 Competition on
Historical Map Text
Detection, Recognition, and Linking
Website: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
Contact: icdar24-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com
Updates in your inbox : https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news
Important dates
2024-12-10: Website live, train/val sets available
2025-03-01: Test set available, submissions are open
2024-04-01: Final submission deadline, including short reports
The competition encompasses four tasks:
word detection
phrase detection
word detection and recognition
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:
expanded data for the French Land Registers dataset
addition of a new Taiwanese maps dataset from the GIS Center at Academia Sinica, featuring Chinese characters
release of large synthetic training data for each dataset
improved evaluation metrics and indicators for better feedback
We would like to invite you to register and participate using the following links:
Official competition platform: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32
Receive updates by email: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news
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