The VOT challenges provide the visual tracking community with a precisely defined and repeatable way of comparing short-term trackers as well as a common platform for discussing the evaluation and advancements made in the field of visual tracking.

The goal of the challenges is to build up a repository of considerable benchmarks and to organize workshops or similar events in order to push forward research in visual tracking.


Challenges

Challenges and workshops that we have organized or are organizing.

To commemorate 10 years of VOT challenges, the VOT Innitiative has set up a short online exhibition.

Support

A collection of documentation and tutorials on various topics.

News

The VOTS2025 in now open!

We are pleased to announce that the VOTS2025 Challenge is now open! In addition to standard challenges, the VOTS2025-RT (real-time) challenge is introduced. Details about the challenge are available on the VOTS2025 webpage.

List of challenges:

  • VOTS2025 Challenge (continuation of VOTS2024 segmentation tracking)
  • VOTS2025-RT Challenge (real-time version of VOTS2025)
  • VOTSt2025 Challenge (continuation of VOTSt2024 transformative object tracking)

Important dates:

  • 25th of April, 2025 - Challenges details available on webpage
  • 13th of May, 2025 - All challenges open
  • 22nd of June, 2025 - Results submission deadline (only for VOTSt2025: extended to June 24, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. UTC)
  • 13th of July, 2025 - Winners announcement
  • 20th of October (Afternoon), 2025 - VOTS2025 workshop at ICCV2025

Contacts:

Citing VOT Challenge

When using any of VOT benchmarks in your paper, please cite the VOT journal paper as well as the relevant VOT workshop paper describing the relevant benchmark.

@article {VOT_TPAMI, author = {Matej Kristan and Jiri Matas and Ale\v{s} Leonardis and Tomas Vojir and Roman Pflugfelder and Gustavo Fernandez and Georg Nebehay and Fatih Porikli and Luka \v{C}ehovin}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, title={A Novel Performance Evaluation Methodology for Single-Target Trackers}, year={2016}, month={Nov}, volume={38}, number={11}, pages={2137-2155}, doi={10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2516982}, ISSN={0162-8828} }