[CFP] Sci-ImageMiner 2026: Official Evaluation Phase Begins Soon

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Mar 9, 2026, 3:47:09 PM (6 days ago) Mar 9

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📢 Sci-ImageMiner 2026 — Codabench Sites Live (Test Phase Soon to Begin)

The Codabench competitions for the 1st Sci-ImageMiner Competition will soon enter the official test phase.

Participants can now test and submit systems for all four tasks:

Task 1 – Figure Classification: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12901/
Task 2 – Data Table Extraction: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12902/
Task 3 – Figure Summarization: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12909/
Task 4 – Visual Question Answering (VQA): https://www.codabench.org/competitions/12908/

Submission guidelines (including dummy examples) are available here:
https://github.com/sciknoworg/ALD-E-ImageMiner/tree/main/icdar2026-competition-data/test/submission_guidelines

The (blind) test dataset has now been released. The official evaluation phase will run from March 16 to April 3, 2026.

It is still not too late to join the competition and contribute to the leaderboards.

Participants are encouraged to download the train and dev datasets and begin benchmarking their approaches on the test set, for example through fine-tuning or few-shot prompting with state-of-the-art vision models.

More details about the competition can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/