ICDAR 2026 Competition on Information Extraction from Atomic Layer Deposition/Etching (ALD/E) Scientific Figures
Scientific figure comprehension and reasoning using multimodal AI requires integrating visual perception with domain-specific reasoning to extract meaningful knowledge, often not presented in the text of a research publication. The Sci-ImageMiner benchmark dataset, accompanied by a community-driven competition, raises the bar over prior scientific competitions by curating a comprehensive, expert-annotated dataset across four end-to-end complementary tasks. The competition attracted 68 active participants and 1,263 public/private submissions from 9th January 2026 to 8th April 2026. Our results show that state-of-the-art multimodal models perform well on classification and summarization tasks but struggle with data extraction and scientific reasoning, particularly in visual question-answering. These findings reveal key limitations and highlight challenges and opportunities for improving domain-aware multimodal AI systems. Overall, the Sci-ImageMiner benchmark and competition establish a rigorous platform for advancing research in scientific figure comprehension and reasoning and demonstrate the potential of state-of-the-art approaches for a challenging and complex research area.
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