ICDAR 2024 SAM: International Competition on Few-Shot and Many-Shot Layout Segmentation of Ancient Manuscripts
We organized the 1st edition of the International Competition on Few-Shot and Many-Shot Layout Segmentation of Ancient Manuscripts, in conjuction with the 18th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2024. The two tasks proposed for this competition were:
- Task 1: Few-Shot Layout Segmentation. This Track, in our opinion, is the most ambitious and interesting. It involves creating an effective document layout segmentation system using only three images for each manuscript. Ten additional images, with the corresponding ground truth, are provided for validation only. It is strictly forbidden to use these additional images as a training set!
- Task 2: Many-Shot Layout Segmentation. Conversely, this task is more conventional. Participants are required to create a layout segmentation system using 20 images per manuscript along with their corresponding ground truth, divided into training and validation sets.
