IAPR TC10/TC11 Catalog

Competition ICDAR 2021

ICDAR 2021 Competition on Historical Map Segmentation (MapSeg)

Date
Official website
https://icdar21-mapseg.github.io/
Competition report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13265
Evaluation tool
https://github.com/icdar21-mapseg/icdar21-mapseg-eval
Organizers
  • Joseph Chazalon – EPITA Research and Development Laboratory [ORCID]
  • Edwin Carlinet – EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
Related datasets

Tasks

  1. Detection of building blocks

    Locate building-block polygons within map sheets.

    Metrics: COCO Panoptic Quality

  2. Segmentation of map content within map sheets

    Distinguish map content from surrounding annotations and decorations.

    Metrics: mean IoU

  3. Localization of graticule lines intersections

    Identify the (x, y) coordinates of graticule line crossings.

    Metrics: Hausdorff-derived distance score

Description

The ICDAR 2021 Competition on Historical Map Segmentation (MapSeg) ran from November 2020 to April 2021. Twelve teams from academia and industry submitted results across the three tasks listed above, evaluated on a held-out test set of historical Paris atlas sheets (1894-1937).

See the official website and competition report for the full task definitions, data formats, and submission details. The evaluation tools are linked above and indexed independently under the Software collection.