VOT 2013 - Workshop on Model-free Visual Object Tracking (VOT)

Research on visual tracking remains limited due to the lack of standardised evaluation protocols and online reference repositories showing results on community accepted reference videos. The VOT2013 invites researchers to participate in the first Visual Object Tracking (VOT) challenge focusing on model-free, single object visual tracking.
The goal of the accompanying VOT2013 workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the ICCV2013, is to provide a common platform for comparison, analysis and discussion of existing as well as new single-object trackers. We provide an evaluation kit that includes videos with annotated ground truth as well as evaluation software to automate the experiments and calculate the performance measures.
How to participate
The participants have to download the VOT2013 evaluation kit, and run the experiments on their tracker. The results of the experiments have to be submitted, along with a short description of the tracker, through the VOT2013 submission page. The results of Level 1 and Level 2 participants (see "Levels of participation"), accompanied with the short descriptions, will become a part of a co-authored paper (each participant that submits the results is a co-author by default) which will be published in the ICCV VOT2013 workshop proceedings.
In addition, the authors may submit a full-length workshop paper, that will go through a peer-review process. Accepted original papers will be published in the ICCV workshop proceedings and will be presented at the workshop (oral presentation or poster presentation).