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ECCV Visual Object Tracking and Segmentation Challenge,
VOTS2026 <br>
Web: <a href="https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/</a><br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/votchallenge" moz-do-not-send="true">https://x.com/votchallenge</a>
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Dear colleagues, </p>
<p>The VOTS2026 challenge closes in 2 weeks! Submit your tracker
and earn co-authorship on the results paper (<a href="https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/</a>).</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 </b><br>
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* June 22, 2026 – Results submission deadline<br>
* July 13, 2026 – Winners announcement<br>
* September, 2026 -- VOTS2026 workshop at ECCV2026<br>
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<b>CONTACTS </b><br>
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Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/votchallenge" moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/votchallenge</a>
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Homepage: <a href="https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.votchallenge.net/vots2026/</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/" moz-do-not-send="true">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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