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ECCV Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop, VOT2020
August 28th 2020, Glasgow, UK

Full-day workshop in conjunction with ECCV 2020
Web: http://www.votchallenge.net/vot2020
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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We are happy to announce that the 8th Visual Object Tracking Challenge VOT2020 will be held in conjunction with ECCV2020.

Open challenges in VOT2020:
1. VOT short-term tracking challenge VOT-ST2020
2. VOT short-term real-time challenge VOT-RT2020
3. VOT long-term tracking challenge VOT-LT2020
4. VOT color and thermal short-term tracking challenge VOT-RGBT2020
5. VOT color and depth long-term tracking challenge VOT-RGBD2020

Highlights:
* A NEW performance evaluation methodology will be used for short-term trackers
* SEGMENTATION ground truth used for the short-term tracker evaluation (trackers may report segmentation masks)
* A NEW Python toolkit will be used

Participate by:
1. Sending the results of your tracker
2. Sending a full-length paper

The VOT committee solicits full-length papers describing:
* Original or improved trackers as well as papers giving new insights into existing trackers or class of trackers.
* Novel ways of using and extending the VOT framework for tracker performance analysis.

Contributors of the trackers outperforming the baseline will be invited to co-author the results paper.

For additional information please see the VOT2020 homepage
(http://www.votchallenge.net/vot2020/).

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Toolkit alpha testing starts: early March 2020
Challenge open: March 20th 2020
Results Submission: May 3rd 2020 (24:00 CET – midnight)
Paper Submission I (standard): May 31st 2020
Paper Submission II (high-quality tracking papers not accepted to ECCV): July 6th 2020
Notification (submitted papers): July 10th 2020
Camera-ready: July 17th 2020
Workshop: August 28th 2020
 
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CONTACTS
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Homepage:
http://www.votchallenge.net/vot2020/

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https://service.ait.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/votchallenge