[visionlist] VOTS2025 challenge opens on 13th May 2025

[Matej Kristan]

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ICCV Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation Challenge, VOTS2025
Web: https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2025/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/votchallenge
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Dear colleagues,

This is to let you know that the annual Visual Object Tracking and 
Segmentation Challenge VOTS2025 will open on 13.5.2025! Results will be 
presented at the VOTS2025 workshop at ICCV2025!

NEW:
* A realtime challenge is introduced to promote lean tracker designs!
* Integration of native single-target trackers with the VOTS toolkit is 
simplified!

Three challenges available:
* VOTS2025 challenge - Continuation of the VOTS2023 challenge. The task 
is to track one or more general targets over short-term or long-term 
sequences by segmentation.
* VOTS2025-RT challenge - Realtime version of VOTS2025 challenge on 
hardware-constrained setup.
* VOTSt2025 challenge - Continuation of the VOTSt2024 challenge. The 
task is to track general objects undergoing a topological 
transformation, such as vegetables cut into pieces, machines 
disassembled, etc.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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* 13th May, 2025 - All challenges open
* 22nd June, 2025 - Results submission deadline
* 13th July, 2025 - Winners announcement
* end of October, 2025 - VOTS2025 workshop at ICCV2025

Participate by: Running your single-target/multiple-target 
segmentation/boundingbox tracker (same challenge) or realtime trackers.
(https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2025/participation.html)

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CONTACTS
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/votchallenge
Homepage: https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2025/
Mailing list: subscribe by sending an empty email to 
votchallange-join at lists.arnes.si

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Prof. Matej Kristan                         | Visual Cognitive Systems Lab
https://www.vicos.si/people/matej_kristan/  | Faculty of Computer and Information Science
Tel: +386 1 479 8245                        | University of Ljubljana

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