[visionlist] VOTS2026 challenge opens in 10 days

[Matej Kristan]

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ECCV Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation Challenge, VOTS2026
Web: https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/
Twitter: https://x.com/votchallenge
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Dear colleagues,

The annual VOTS2026 challenge opens in just 10 days!

The participation details are already available on the web page: 
https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/

*What's new:* We're introducing a point-tracking challenge, a referring 
tracking challenge and updating the VOTS segmentation tracking dataset!

Four challenges available:
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*** *VOTS2026 Challenge [Refreshed!] *-- Continuation of the VOTS2025 
challenge with the task to track one or more general targets over 
short-term or long-term sequences by segmentation. The dataset is 
refreshed with new challenging sequences.
*** *VOTSt2026 Challenge* – Continuation of the VOTSt2025 transformative 
object tracking challenge, which considers general objects undergoing a 
topological transformation, such as vegetables cut into pieces, machines 
disassembled, etc.
** VOTSp2026 Challenge [NEW!]* – A new point-tracking challenge, which 
considers tracking several manually defined points. Challenging 
sequences have been selected to construct a new test set for his challenge.
** VOTSr2026 Challenge [NEW!]* --  A new referring tracking challenge, 
with the task to segment objects in video based on descriptions.

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*IMPORTANT DATES *
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* May 13, 2026 – All challenges open
* June 22, 2026 – Results submission deadline
* July 13, 2026 – Winners announcement
* September, 2026 -- VOTS2026 workshop at ECCV2026

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*CONTACTS *
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/votchallenge
Homepage: https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/

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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

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
(Peter Ustinov)
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