Computer Vision News - January 2023

10 Trans2k, Best Paper BMVC In visual object tracking , the task is to locate an object in all video frames, given only its location in the first frame. Matej, who organizes annual Visual Object Tracking (VOT) Challenges with Alan, co-author Jiří Matas from the Czech Technical University in Prague, and other colleagues, tells us the field has seen many changes over the last few years. “ We’ve been running these challenges for the last decade and have seen how significantly the field has developed, ” he points out. “ The methodology has more or less completely shifted every three years. Most research has been on opaque objects, TRANS2K: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF DEEP MODELS FOR TRANSPARENT OBJECT TRACKING Alan Lukezic is a postdoc in the Faculty of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana, where data scientist Žiga Trojer has just completed his master’s degree, and Matej Kristan is a professor. They speak to us fresh from winning the Best Paper Award at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2022 for their work on a new training dataset for tracking transparent objects. B E S T PA P E R BMVC Alan Lukezic Žiga Trojer