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.

Support

A collection of documentation and tutorials on various topics.

Database

An online repository of sequences and results.

The database is currently under construction.

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} }

Highlights and news

The VOT2022 challenge opened!

The VOT2022 challenge is currently active! We are re-introducing the bounding box tracking challenge in addition to segmentation challenge, while the thermal tracking challenge is suspended this year. The following challenges are thus planned:

  • VOT-STs: RGB short-term segmentation tracking challenge
  • VOT-STb: RGB short-term bounding box tracking challenge (NEW)
  • VOT-RT: RGB short-term tracking challenge
  • VOT-LT: RGB long-term bounding box tracking challenge
  • VOT-RGBD: RGB+depth bounding box tracking challenge

A tentative timeline for the challenge:

  • 25th of March: VOT2022 challenge open, datasets available (VOT-LT will open in a few days due to last-minute dataset polish)
  • 3rd of May: Tracker results submission deadline
  • 24th of October: VOT2022 workshop

The VideoNet initiative

VideoNet is a new initiative to bring together the community of researchers that have put effort into creating benchmarks for video tasks. The goal of the VideoNet is to exchange ideas on how to improve annotations, evaluation measures, and learn from each other’s experiences. More information available at the official page.

VOT paper was accepted at Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

We are happy to announce that the VOT (2013-2014) methodology paper has been accepted to Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). The paper can be accessed from the VOT publications page link. For future reference, if you use any of the VOT datasets in your evaluation, please cite this paper as methodology reference as well as the relevant VOT workshop paper for the dataset.