The Visual Object Tracking (VOT) Challenge Series has received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ECCV 2026, in recognition of its long-standing contribution to the computer vision community.
Since 2013, VOT has brought together the visual tracking community through a continuous series of challenges and workshops, establishing rigorous evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, datasets, and open-source tools. The award recognizes the VOT team and its collaborators “for the series of Visual Object Tracking workshops and challenges that have shaped the modern synthesis of visual object tracking.”
The VOTS2026 workshop was held on September 9, 2026, at ECCV2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The workshop featured presentations of the challenge results, invited talks, and discussions on the future of visual object tracking and segmentation research. It was attended by around 70 participants.
Lost items: After the workshop the organizers found two pieces of forgotten tech in the room: a MacBook Pro laptop and a ReMarkable tablet. If you are the owner of these items, please contact the organizers to find out how to retrieve them.
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