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      ICCV Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation Challenge, VOTS2025
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      Dear colleagues,
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      The Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation Challenge <b>VOTS2025
        opens next week</b>! <br>
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    <p><b>NEW:</b>
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      * A realtime challenge is introduced to promote lean tracker
      designs!
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      * Integration of native single-target trackers with the VOTS
      toolkit is simplified!
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      <b>Three challenges available:
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      * 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.
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      * VOTS2025-RT challenge - Realtime version of VOTS2025 challenge
      on hardware-constrained setup.
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      * 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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      <b>IMPORTANT DATES:
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      * 13th May, 2025 - All challenges open
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      * 22nd June, 2025 - Results submission deadline
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      * 13th July, 2025 - Winners announcement
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      * end of October, 2025 - VOTS2025 workshop at ICCV2025
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      <b>Participate by:</b> Running your single-target/multiple-target
      segmentation/boundingbox tracker (same challenge) or realtime
      trackers.
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Prof. Matej Kristan                         | Visual Cognitive Systems Lab
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vicos.si/people/matej_kristan/">https://www.vicos.si/people/matej_kristan/</a>  | 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)</pre>
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