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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ICCV Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop, VOT2017 October 28,</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2017, Venice, Italy</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Half day workshop in conjunction with ICCV 2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Web: </span><a href="http://www.votchallenge.net/challenges.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=de&q=http://www.votchallenge.net/challenges.html&source=gmail&ust=1493888196156000&usg=AFQjCNHzWyIGNheQ_QktHhzO9rtLeAIjTA" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">http://www.votchallenge.net/<wbr>challenges.html</a><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Data available: May 7th 2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paper Submission (standard): June 16th 2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Results Submission Deadline: June 17th 2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notification of Acceptance: July 11th 2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Camera-Ready Paper Due: August 20th 2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are happy to announce that the 5th Visual Object Tracking Challenge</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">VOT2017 will be held in conjunction with ICCV2017.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are also announcing the third VOT thermal imagery tracking</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sub-challenge VOT-TIR2017. The results of the VOT2017 and VOT-TIR2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">challenges will be presented at the ICCV 2017 VOT workshop.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Novelties in the VOT2017 challenge:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. An updated and refreshed dataset.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. The winner will be determined on a SEQUESTERED dataset not released</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to public.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3. New experiments for real-time tracking evaluation will be conducted.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4. New paper co-authorship rules aiming toward open source tracking community.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5. The legacy VOT2013 integration will not be supported any more --</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trax integration required!</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Participate by:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1. Sending the results of your tracker</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2. Sending a full-length paper</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are soliciting (not necessarily original) trackers to participate</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in a competition on a common dataset and evaluation methodology</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">provided by the committee. Contributors of the trackers outperforming</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the baseline will be invited to be co-author of the results paper.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The VOT committee solicits full-length papers describing:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Original or improved trackers as well as papers giving new insights</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">into existing trackers or class of trackers.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Novel ways of using and extending the VOT framework for tracker</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">performance analysis.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For new constraints on VOT2017 Winner, the joint paper coauthorship</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and transition to new integration protocol, please visit the VOT2017</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">homepage. The page will be updated in the following days.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please see the homepage for further details:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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