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ECCV Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation Challenge, VOTS2026 <br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2025/">https://www.votchallenge.net/</a>
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Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/votchallenge">https://x.com/votchallenge</a>
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Dear colleagues,
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This is to let you know that the annual Visual Object Tracking and
Segmentation Challenge VOTS2026 will open on May 13th 2026!
Results will be presented at the VOTS2026 workshop at ECCV2026! </p>
<p><b>What's new:</b> We're introducing a point-tracking challenge,
a referring tracking challenge and updating the vots segmentation
tracking dataset!<span lang="en-SI" style="mso-ansi-language:#0C00"></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-SI" style="mso-ansi-language:#0C00">Four
challenges available: <br>
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<b>*</b> <b>VOTS2026 Challenge [Refreshed!] </b>--
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.<br>
<b>*</b> <b>VOTSt2026 Challenge</b> – 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.<br>
<b>* VOTSp2026 Challenge [NEW!]</b> – 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.<br>
<b>* VOTSr2026 Challenge [NEW!]</b> -- A new referring tracking
challenge, with the task to segment objects in video based on
descriptions.<br>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES
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<p>* end of April, 2026 – Challenge details available on the website<br>
* May 13, 2026 – All challenges open<br>
* June 22, 2026 – Results submission deadline<br>
* July 13, 2026 – Winners announcement<br>
* September, 2026 -- VOTS2026 workshop at ECCV2026<br>
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CONTACTS
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Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/votchallenge">https://twitter.com/votchallenge</a>
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Homepage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2025/">https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2025/</a>
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Mailing list: subscribe by sending an empty email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:votchallange-join@lists.arnes.si">votchallange-join@lists.arnes.si</a></p>
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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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