CVSI 2017



ICDAR2017 Competition on Video Script Identification

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Important dates:

  • Feb 1, 2017 : Website online
  • Feb 1, 2017 : Registration Open
  • Feb 20, 2017: Sample dataset available
  • March 15, March 24, April 14
    April 21, 2017: Training dataset available
  • March 25, April 3, April 21
    April 28 2017: Validation dataset available
  • March 31, April 15, May 1
    June 30, 2017: Registration closes
  • April 5, April 18, May 5,
    June 30, 2017: Submission of systems
  • April 7, April 20, May 10,
    May 20, 2017: Test dataset available
  • April 10, April 24, May 17,
    June 30, 2017: Submission of results

Latest News

  • Feb 1, 2017 : Website online, registration open
  • Feb 20, 2017 : Sample Dataset available
  • March 15, 2017 : Deadline extension
  • March 31, 2017 : Following the extension of the ICDAR2017 full paper submission deadline, the training dataset will now be available on 14th April 2017 to the registered participants
  • April 21, 2017 : The training dataset is now available to the registered participants
  • April 30, 2017 : The validation dataset is now available to the registered participants
  • May 29, 2017 : The test dataset is available after system submission
  • May 29, 2017 : Competition deadline extend

Introduction

In multi-lingual and multi-script countries the use of two or more scripts is quite common for information communication through news and advertisement videos transmitted across various television channels. The text present in videos plays an important role in automatic video indexing and retrieval. Hence, OCR of multi-lingual video-text is crucial.

Inspired by the success of the ICDAR 2015 competition on Video Script Identification, the authors would like to propose another competition in ICDAR 2017 comprising a very large dataset and fifteen scripts.

The main objective of the competition is to identify scripts from the extracted video words. Different combinations of eleven Indian scripts and four Oriental scripts will be considered for the competition. The competition provides a platform for researchers around the globe to address the problem.




Reference:

[1] Nabin Sharma, Ranju Mandal, Rabi Sharma, Umapada Pal, and Michael Blumenstein, "ICDAR2015 Competition on Video Script Identification (CVSI 2015)", In Proc. 13th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2015), pp. 1196-1200, 2015, [pdf].