ICDAR2015 Competition on Video Script Identification (CVSI 2015)

This paper presents the final results of the ICDAR 2015 Competition on Video Script Identification. A description and performance of the participating systems in the competition are reported. The general objective of the competition is to evaluate and benchmark the available methods on word-wise video script identification. It also provides a platform for researchers around the globe to particularly address the video script identification problem and video text recognition in general. The competition was organised around four different tasks involving various combinations of scripts comprising tri-script and multi-script scenarios. The dataset used in the competition comprised ten different scripts. In total, six systems were received from five participants over the tasks offered. This report details the competition dataset specifications, evaluation criteria, summary of the participating systems and their performance across different tasks. The systems submitted by Google Inc. were the winner of the competition for all the tasks, whereas the systems received from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Computer Vision Center (CVC) were very close competitors.