votchallenge/vot-toolkit repository overview

⁠The VOT evaluation kit

This repository contains the official evaluation kit for the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) challenge⁠. The repository contains the actual evaluation toolkit as a set of Matlab (Octave compatible) scripts, a documentation and a set of integration examples for different programming languages.

For more detailed informations consult the documentation available in the source or a compiled version of the documentation here⁠. You can also subscribe to the VOT mailing list⁠ to receive news about challenges and important software updates or join our support form⁠ to ask questions.

Click here⁠ to browse and download the latest official releases of the toolkit.

⁠Developers

• Luka Čehovin (lead developer)
• Tomáš Vojíř
• Alan Lukežič

⁠Contributors

• Georg Nebehay
• Heng Cherkeng
• Stefan Duffner
• Mario Maresca
• Klaus Haag
• Alessio Dore
• Alan Torres
• Rok Mandeljc

⁠Citing

If you use VOT toolkit in your work, consider citing the following cover publication:

@article{vot-toolkit,
   title = "A modular toolkit for visual tracking performance evaluation",
   journal = "SoftwareX",
   volume = "12",
   pages = "100623",
   year = "2020",
   issn = "2352-7110",
   doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100623",
   url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711020303368",
   author = "Luka {Čehovin Zajc}"
}

⁠License

The evaluation toolkit code and the documentation is available under GPL 3 license. The tracker examples are available under various licenses.

⁠Enquiries, Question and Comments

If you have any further enquiries, question, or comments, please refer to the contact infromation link on the VOT homepage⁠. If you would like to file a bug report or a feature request, use the Github issue tracker⁠. The issue tracker is for toolkit issues only, if you have a problem with tracker integration or any other questions, please use our support forum⁠.