ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking
Historical maps are valuable for history, social sciences, and linguistics but pose challenges for automatic transcription. This competition edition continues to address detection, recognition, and linking of text in historical maps, with new features: expanded French Land Registers data, a new Taiwanese dataset with Chinese characters, synthetic training data, and improved linking evaluation metrics. Seven teams participated with over 25 submissions across four tasks and three datasets. While detection performance is strong, recognition and linking remain difficult, though improvements were seen with Bézier curve line fitting and enhanced linking pipelines. All resources are publicly available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/communities/icdar-maptext).
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University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Université Gustave Eiffel
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Grinnell College
EPITA
EPITA
Université Gustave Eiffel
Université Gustave Eiffel
2026
Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 16027 LNCS
1611-3349
0302-9743
568
585
REVIEWED
EPFL
| Event name | Event acronym | Event place | Event date |
ICDAR 2025 | Wuhan, China | 2025-09-16 - 2025-09-21 | |