Members of the project group are leaders of the currently largest initiative for visual object tracking performance evaluation -- the Visual object tracking challenge (VOT). The purpose of the initiative is, apart from objective tracker evaluation, construction of new datasets and performance evaluation protocols. In 2017 the initiative has organized the fifth VOT challenge and workshop within a major computer vision conference ICCV 2017. Over a hundred researchers have attended the challenge and the workshop. A major novelty in VOT2017 was analysis of realtime trackers, which are crucial component in modern autonomous robotic systems. This year, the University of Ljubljana recognized the work of the VOT initiative as one of ten most excellent research achievements of UL in 2017 (https://www.uni-lj.si/v_ospredju/2017120413202206/). Project group members were also part of organization committee of the 10th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2017) (http://www.isispa.org/). The project leader (Matej Kristan) was one of the program chairs while Janez Perš was the local organizer.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537719235The tracker that was developed within the project was reimplemented in C++ and optimized for speed. The tracker achieved first place on the VOT2017 challenge in the category of real-time trackers among 51 submissions. Due to high exposure of VOT we expect the tracker will attract significant attention of the computer vision as well as robotic community.
E.02 International awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537693635The project leader was a research superviser of Borja Bovcon, who received the faculty Prešeren’s award (awarded by the Faculty of computer and information science) for his work on obstacle detection. Borja Bovcon is currently a member of the project group. Young MSc graduates are being included into the project work. As indicated in the project application, two recent MSc graduates, Borja Bovcon (FRI), and Jon Muhovič (FE) joined the project immediately after the graduation. This way, they are training in the scientific research, and achieve above average results. They will be or already are supplementing their project work with doctoral studies. Both will focus their doctoral studies on the problems they work with as a part of the the project, which will streamline their doctoral study, while enable them to work with practical, current problem.
E.01 National awards
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