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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;">Call for participants</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text
Detection, Recognition, and Linking</span></p>
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<strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32" style="text-decoration:none;">
https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32</a></span></p>
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<strong>Contact:</strong> icdar25-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com</span></p>
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<strong>Updates:</strong> <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news" style="text-decoration:none;">
https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news</a></span></p>
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<strong>Submission Deadline:</strong> April 1, 2025</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">✅ 2024-12-10: Website live,
train/val sets available</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">✅ 2025-01-14: Validation set
submissions open, evaluation tools released</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">🚀 2025-03-01: Test set available,
final submissions open!</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">📅 2025-04-01: Final submission
deadline, including short reports</span></p>
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<h2 dir="ltr" style="margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">ICDAR25 MapText Challenge: Call for Participation </span></h2>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Following the success of the 2024 edition, we
are excited to announce that </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">the test set for the 2025 ICDAR Competition on Map Text Detection,
Recognition, and Linking is now available!</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> You can now submit your final results and method descriptions
via the competition platform.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">This edition continues to focus on text detection
and recognition in challenging historical maps while introducing several new features:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">📍<strong>Expanded French
Land Registers dataset</strong></span></p>
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<strong>New Taiwanese maps dataset</strong> from the GIS Center at Academia Sinica, featuring Chinese characters</span>
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<strong>Large synthetic training data</strong> for each dataset</span></p>
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<strong>Improved evaluation metrics</strong> for enhanced feedback</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Download
the test set</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> from the
</span><a href="https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;">competition
website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> (login required).</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Process
the data</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> using your system.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Submit
your predictions and method</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;"> report before
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">April 1, 2025</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">.</span>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">We invite you to join the challenge and showcase
your expertise in historical map text recognition! Stay updated and get involved:</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Review tasks and datasets:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">
</span><a href="https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;">https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32</span></a>
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">Subscribe for updates:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">
</span><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;">https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news</span></a>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">This competition is organized by a team of experienced
researchers from: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;">University of Minnesota (USA), Grinnell College (USA), Univ Gustave Eiffel,
ENSG, IGN, LASTIG (France), EHESS (France), EPITA (France), and Academia Sinica (Taiwan).</span></p>
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solutions!</span></p>
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