The International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) is an international academic conference which is held every two years in a different city. The ICDAR Robust Reading Competition has been held five times previously; in 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013 and 2015. The competition is organized around challenges that represent specific application domains for robust reading.
On October 17th, Dahua Technology took first place in Task [Word Recognition] of Incidental Scene Text Challenge and Born-Digital Image Challenge–with an accuracy of 82.76% and 97.43% respectively.