Hyperspectral Object Tracking Challenge 2025

Nov. 12-Nov. 14, 2025

Barcelona, Spain

Object tracking is an important research topic in computer vision and pattern recognition. Despite its success in research and practice, tracking in grayscale or color videos has its intrinsic limitations in depicting physical properties of targets, especially reflectance of materials. It makes trackers vulnerable in complex scenarios with cluttered background and significant object shape changes. This problem can be effectively addressed by object tracking in hyperspectral videos which provide joint spectral, spatial, and temporal information, enabling the tracking system to perceive the materials besides the shape, texture, and semantic relationship of objects.

In 2025, we organize The Fifth Hyperspectral Object Tracking Challenge with the 15th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS). The goal of this contest is to boost the research on hyperspectral object tracking. A special session will be organized for all accepted papers which will also be included in the WHISPERS proceedings to be published in the IEEE Xplore.

A frame-by-frame labelled dataset with 261 training videos and 75 validation videos is provided. Moreover, we also provide 80 unlabeled hyperspectral videos as a testing set for ranking purpose. Each video contains hyperspectral data and false-color data generated from the hyperspectral data. We also provide the codes of a number of tracking methods as baselines. Please refer to the results page.

This year, we move the evaluation to the Kaggle Platform. During the first stage, all participants submit their results to Kaggle, and the live board will be updated based on the results on the validation set. During the second stage, the participants shall submit their codes to Kaggle.

Please email the team information to hsotracking@gmail.com and copy to fcxiong@njust.edu.cn to confirm your participation. All participants are encouraged to submit a paper to WHISPERS 2025. Please select "the challenge：hyperspectral object tracking challenge" track in the paper review system. It is mandatory for the top four teams to submit and present a paper in the WHISPERS. A special session will be organised for all accepted papers which will also be included in the WHISPERS proceedings.