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<h1>Call for Competition Proposal</h1>
<p>The ICPR 2026 Organizing Committee invites proposals for competitions that aim at evaluating the performance of
algorithms and methods related to pattern recognition. You are cordially invited to submit a proposal, that
should contain the following information: </p>
<ul>
<li> Contest title and abstract </li>
<li> A brief description of the competition, including what the particular task under evaluation is, why this
competition is of interest to the ICPR community, and the expected number of participants </li>
<li> An outline of the competition schedule </li>
<li> Description of the dataset to be used, and the evaluation process and metrics for submitted methods </li>
<li> The names, contact information, and brief CVs of the competition organizers, outlining previous experience
in performance evaluation and/or organizing competitions </li>
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<p> The following rules shall apply to the accepted Competitions </p>
<ul>
<li>The name of the competition must be standardized by starting with "ICPR 2026" e.g. "ICPR 2026 Competition on
…" or "ICPR 2026 … Competition. </li>
<li> Datasets used in the competitions must be made available after the end of the competitions. Specifically,
the training data and ground truth must be publicly released and there must be a way to evaluate performance
on a test set. This could take the form of an evaluation server, or the test data, ground truth, and
evaluation script could be made publicly available. </li>
<li> Evaluation methodologies and metrics used must be described in detail so that results can be replicated
later. Evaluation scripts must be released afterwards. </li>
<li> Each competition has to be presented with a poster at a prominent place at the conference venue, and some
good competitions may be selected for oral presentation during ICPR 2026. </li>
<li> Competitions must have a sufficient number of participants (greater or equal to 3) to be able to draw
meaningful conclusions. </li>
<li> Reports (full papers) on each competition will be reviewed and, if accepted (the competition ran according
to plan, attracted a minimum level of participation and is appropriately described), will be published in the
ICPR 2026 conference proceedings. </li>
<li> Participants should not have access to the ground-truth test dataset until the end of the competition. The
evaluation should be done by the organizers. </li>
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<h2> Submission Guidelines & Inquiries </h2>
<p>All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the
Competition Chairs (Alceu de Souza Brito Jr, Made Windu Antara
Kesiman, Thierry Paquet) via: <a href="mailto:competition@icpr2026.org">competition@icpr2026.org</a>.
We encourage competition proposals with a solid plan to remain active
and challenging for the community over and above ICPR 2026. For any
inquiries you may have regarding the competitions, please contact us
via above email.</p>
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<th colspan="2">Important dates (CET)</th>
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<td class="date">November 1st, 2025</td>
<td>Competition Proposal Due</td>
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<td class="date">December 1st, 2025</td>
<td>Competition Acceptance Notification</td>
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<td class="date">December 15, 2025</td>
<td>Individual Competition Websites are Live</td>
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<td class="date">March 1st, 2026</td>
<td>Deadline for competition participants</td>
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<td class="date">April 1st, 2026</td>
<td>Initial Submission of Competition Reports Deadline</td>
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<td class="date">May, 2026</td>
<td>Camera-Ready Papers Due</td>
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<td class="date">June, 2026</td>
<td>Communicate Winners to Chairs</td>
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<td class="date">August 17–21, 2026</td>
<td>Presentation at ICPR Conference</td>
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<h2>Flyers of Call for Competition </h2>
The main flyer of the call for competition is available here:
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