Hyperspectral Object Tracking Challenge 2023


Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2023


Athens, Greece

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 2023, we organize The Third Hyperspectral Object Tracking Challenge with the 13th 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 95 training videos and 77 validation videos is provided. Moreover, we also provide 85 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 and results of a number of tracking methods as baselines.

All participants are required to submit a report to the WHISPERS paper review system under "the challenge:hyperspectral object tracking challenge" track. All participants shall also submit the tracking results on the unlabeled testing set to the contest organizer. Please email the tracking results to hsotracking@gmail.com and also cc to fcxiong@njust.edu.cn. A special session will be organised for all accepted papers which will also be included in the WHISPERS proceedings.

We made some updates to the training and validation set. Please refer to the contest page. (2023, 07.12)

We released the tracking results of some color trackers on the false-color sequences. Please refer to the result page. (2023, 07.12)

We uploaded the dataset to Google Drive. Please refer to the contest page. (2023, 07.12)

We extend the deadline for the contest as follows:

  • Test Data Available: August 25th
  • Submission Deadline (including the paper and tracking results): August 30th. Please note that the time for paper submission can be flexible upon special request.
  • Announcement of Winners: September 5th

Please also send me an email (fcxiong@njust.edu.cn) confirming your participation in the contest. This will allow us to make early arrangements for the review process and ensure smooth proceedings. (2023, 08.10)

We released the tracking results of the MHT tracker on the hyperspectral sequences. Please refer to the result page. (2023, 08.11)

We released the ranking set. Please refer to the contest page. (2023, 08.25).

Prizes

Hackathon

1000 EUR

Hackathon

1500 EUR

Hackathon

500 EUR

Winners

Ye Wang, Yuheng Liu, Mingyang Ma, Yuru Su and Shaohui Mei

code

Hongjiao Liu, Jiayue He, Jinpeng Wang, Nan Su, Chunhui Zhao, Yiming Yan, Shou Feng, Ze Liu, Jianfei Liu and Zilong Zhao

code

Simiao Lai, Dong Wang and Huchuan Lu

code

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