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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">ICCV Visual Object Tracking Challenge Workshop, VOT2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">either October 27, 28 or November 2 2019, Seoul, Korea</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Full-day workshop in conjunction with ICCV 2019</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">*** We thank our SPONSOR SICK *** We thank our SPONSOR Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana ***</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">We are happy to announce the 7th Visual Object Tracking Challenge! VOT2019 will be held in conjunction with ICCV2019. The results of all VOT2019 challenges will be presented at the ICCV 2019 VOT workshop.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Novelties of VOT2019:</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Two new challenges introduced (VOT-RGBT & VOT-RGBD)</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* VOT-RGBT2019 challenge will evaluate trackers that use 4 channels (RGB + IR) in tracking</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* VOT-RGBD2019 challenge will evaluate trackers that use 4 channels (RGB + depth) in tracking</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Updated VOT toolkit to support multi-channel inputs</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Participate by:</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">1. Sending the results of your tracker</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">2. Sending a full-length paper</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">3. Sending your improved ICCV rejected paper</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">We are soliciting (not necessarily original) trackers to participate in </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">a competition on a common dataset and evaluation methodology provided by </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">the committee. Contributors of the trackers outperforming the baseline </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">will be invited to co-author the results paper.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">The VOT committee solicits full-length papers describing:</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Original or improved trackers as well as papers giving new insights </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">into existing trackers or class of trackers.</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* Novel ways of using and extending the VOT framework for tracker </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">performance analysis.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Challenge open: April 15th 2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Results Submission: May 31st 2019 (24:00 CET - midnight)</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Paper Submission I (standard): June 14th 2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Paper Submission II (high-quality tracking papers not accepted to ICCV): August 3rd 2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Notification: August 12th 2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Camera-ready: August 25th 2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Workshop: either October 27, 28 or November 2, 2019 (TBA)</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">For updated information, please see the VOT2019 homepage</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">TRACKING CHALLENGES</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">*** NEW *** VOT thermal and infrared short-term tracking challenge VOT-RGBT2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> [Multi-modality tracking under RGB and T partial modality de-synchronization.]</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">*** NEW *** VOT color and depth long-term tracking challenge VOT-RGBD2019</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> [Using depth to improve LT RGB tracking with target disappearance.]</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* VOT short-term tracking challenge VOT-ST2019 (same as in VOT2018)</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> [Robust short-term tracking under appearance variation, occlusion and clutter.]</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* VOT short-term real-time challenge VOT-RT2019 (same as in VOT2018)</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> [Robust short-term tracking under time constraints.]</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">* VOT long-term tracking challenge VOT-LT2019 (same as in VOT2018)</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> [Robust tracking with target disappearance.]</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Homepage:</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Best regards,</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">The VOT2019 team</font></div>
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