The ICDAR2013 Competition on Recognition of Historical Books with Distortions will run as follows:

NEW  March 18, 2013  

Registered developers will be able to download the document images of the evaluation dataset.

NEW  Until March 25, 2013  

Registration opens, developers of candidate methods register their intention to participate and receive a username & password, which will enable them to download the example dataset (document images and associated ground truth). Also, once registered, further details on the organisation of the competition can be accessed.

NEW  April 2, 2013  

Developers submit the results of the candidate methods along with the executables of the candidate methods (to be able to replicate the results) and a brief description of each method. The organisers then evaluate the submitted results and prepare a detailed report describing and comparing the candidate methods.

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The results will be announced at an ICDAR2013 special session.

For more information on requirements, formats, representative examples and ground truth (including a viewer), please see the Resources page.