We are excited to announce the lineup of ICDAR2026 Competitions!
📘 SciImageMiner: ICDAR2026 Competition on Information Extraction from ALD/E Scientific Figures (ALD/E-ImageMiner)
Organizers: Fahad Ahmed (TIB), Jennifer D’Souza (TIB), Soren Auer (TIB-L3S), Ralph Ewerth (TIB-UM),Alex Watkins (UOW), Bora Karasulu (UOW),
Eleni Poupaki (TUE), Erwin Kessels (TUE)
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sci-imageminer/
📘 DocVQA2026: ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains
Organizers: Artemis Llabrés, Marc Serra Ortega, Tomás Ockier, Amritpal Singh, Christos Georgakilas, Andrey Barsky, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas (CVC-UAB)
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://www.docvqa.org/challenges/2026
📘 ICDAR26-FalsID: ICDAR2026 Competition on Falsification and Imitation Detection
Organizers: Elena Pierazzo (CESR, Université de Tours), Franco Tomasi (Università di Padova), Emilio Russo (Università di Roma, „La Sapienza“), Dominique Stutzmann (IRHT, CNRS), Riham Mokrani (EPHE, PSL)
Contact:Â [email protected]
📘 ANYSCRIPT: ICDAR2026 Competition on Long-Term Handwriting Author Identification
Organizers: Adrià Molina RodrÃguez (CVC-UAB), Carles Boned Riera (CVC-UAB), Pau Torras Coloma (CVC-UAB), Oriol Ramos Terrades (CVC-UAB), Josep Lladós Canet (CVC-UAB).
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://cvc-dag.github.io/anyscript/
📘 CMMHWR26: ICDAR2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwriting Recognition
Organizers: Agnes Boutreux (Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto, Sorbonne University, Paris), Bram Cars (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), Thibault Clérice (ALMAnaCH, Inria, Paris), Matthias Gille Levenson (University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines), Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp), Benjamin Kiessling (ALMAnaCH, Inria, Paris), Ariane Pinche (CIHAM, Lyon), Caroline Vandyck (University of Antwerp), Malamatenia Vlachou (IRHT, École des Ponts – ParisTech, Paris)
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://cmmhwr26.inria.fr
📘 HIPE-OCRepair: ICDAR2026 Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction for Historical Documents
Organizers: Emanuela Boros (DHLAB, EPFL), Juri Opitz, Andrianos Michail, Simon Clematide (Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich), Maud Ehrmann (DHLAB, EPFL), Florian Wagner (Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich)
Contact: [email protected]
📘 ICDAR2026 Competition in Text Recognition on Greek Squeezes
Organizers: Nicholas Howe (Smith College), Aaron Hershkowitz (Institute for Advanced Study)
Contact: [email protected]
📘 CircleID: ICDAR2026 Competition on Writer and Pen Identification from Hand-Drawn Circles
Organizers: Thomas Gorges (FAU), Janne van der Loop (JGU), Fei Wu (FAU), Mathias Seuret (FAU), Vincent Christlein (FAU)
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://lme.tf.fau.de/competitions/icdar-2026-competition-on-writer-and-pen-identification-from-hand-drawn-circles/