| Step 1: | Registration
to the contest (since you have registered, you will receive all
necessary data and will be informed of any updates, news etc.) (open until 7/5/2010 21/5/2010) |
| Step 2: | A
training dataset toolkit (both for text line and word detection) will
be sent to all registered participants (the ICDAR2007 Handwriting
Segmentation Contest benchmarking dataset + ground truth viewer
& evaluation software) (just after registering) |
| Step 3: | All
registered users is required to submit two executables (one for text
line detection and one for word detection) in the form of Win32 console
application (by 14/5/2010 28/5/2010) |
| Step 4: | The
participants with best working algorithms will be asked to submit a
draft description of their text line and word detection methodology. The
testing dataset (both for text line and word detection) will be sent to
all registered participants (by
28/5/2010 4/6/2010)
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| Step 5: | Final contest results to be announced at the ICFHR 2010 conference. A
report on the competition will be published in the
ICFHR
conference proceedings. |
