| Date | Description |
| January 10, 2019 | – Opening of the registration to competition – Publication of the sample dataset |
| April 30, 2019 | – Closure of the registration to competition – Publication of the evaluation dataset – Beginning of the competition |
| May 24, 2019 | – Deadline of the result submission – Deadline of the submission of the description of the participating methods |
| June 24, 2019 | – Sending the competition results to the participants |
The results of the HBA competition will be announced at ICDAR’19.