The Thermal Infrared Visual Object Tracking VOT-TIR2016 Challenge Results

The Thermal Infrared Visual Object Tracking challenge 2015, VOT-TIR2015, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that work on thermal infrared (TIR) sequences and do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. VOT-TIR2015 is the first benchmark on short-term tracking in TIR sequences. Results of 24 trackers are presented. For each participating tracker, a short description is provided in the appendix. The VOT-TIR2015 challenge is based on the VOT2013 challenge, but introduces the following novelties: (i) the newly collected LTIR (Link -- ping TIR) dataset is used, (ii) the VOT2013 attributes are adapted to TIR data, (iii) the evaluation is performed using insights gained during VOT2013 and VOT2014 and is similar to VOT2015.

Zhenyu He | Michael Felsberg | Ming Tang | Bohyung Han | Fahad Shahbaz Khan | Qingming Huang | Jiri Matas | Xin Li | Aykut Erdem | Hongdong Li | Guna Seetharaman | Yang Li | Stefan Becker | Wolfgang Hübner | Michael Arens | Ke Gao | Thomas Mauthner | Horst Possegger | Horst Bischof | José María Martínez Sanchez | Zhan Xu | Alfredo Petrosino | Tao Hu | Erkut Erdem | Martin Danelljan | Gustav Häger | Luca Bertinetto | Roman P. Pflugfelder | Ales Leonardis | Abdelrahman Eldesokey | Robert Laganière | Philip H. S. Torr | Matej Kristan | Noor M. Al-Shakarji | Kannappan Palaniappan | Honggang Qi | Fatih Murat Porikli | Krystian Mikolajczyk | Siwei Lyu | Jochen Lang | Vincenzo Santopietro | Jianke Zhu | Fei Zhao | Longyin Wen | Richard Bowden | Dawei Du | Jörgen Ahlberg | Jack Valmadre | Filiz Bunyak | Shizeng Yao | Rengarajan Pelapur | Nana Fan | Gao Zhu | Amanda Berg | Osman Akin | Stuart Golodetz | Karel Lebeda | Ondrej Miksik | Mahdieh Poostchi | Gustavo Fernández | Luka Cehovin | Tomás Vojír | Simon Hadfield | Wenbo Li | Alan Lukezic | Francesco Battistone | Rafael Martin Nieto | Hyeonseob Nam | Jiayi Feng | Anton Varfolomieiev | Mooyeol Baek | Sebastian Bernd Krah | Mario Edoardo Maresca | Shengkun Li | Chang-Ming Chang | Álvaro García-Martín | Andrés Solís Montero | Noor Al-Shakarji | A. Leonardis | Bohyung Han | Longyin Wen | K. Mikolajczyk | M. Felsberg | Martin Danelljan | R. Bowden | Jiri Matas | H. Bischof | Siwei Lyu | R. Laganière | F. Khan | Luca Bertinetto | Jack Valmadre | F. Porikli | T. Mauthner | Jianke Zhu | Hongdong Li | Michael Arens | Zhenyu He | J. Lang | Xin Li | Wenbo Li | J. Ahlberg | M. Kristan | Tomás Vojír | R. Pflugfelder | G. Fernandez | Luka Cehovin | A. Petrosino | M. Maresca | J. Sanchez | Gustav Häger | A. Lukežič | Álvaro García-Martín | A. Varfolomieiev | Aykut Erdem | Chang-Ming Chang | Dawei Du | E. Erdem | Fei Zhao | F. Bunyak | Francesco Battistone | Gao Zhu | G. Seetharaman | H. Qi | Horst Possegger | Hyeonseob Nam | Jiayi Feng | K. Palaniappan | K. Lebeda | Ke Gao | M. Poostchi | Mooyeol Baek | Nana Fan | Osman Akin | Qingming Huang | R. Pelapur | S. Krah | Shengkun Li | Shizeng Yao | Simon Hadfield | S. Becker | S. Golodetz | Tao Hu | V. Santopietro | W. Hübner | Yang Li | Zhan Xu | A. Eldesokey | R. Nieto | Erkut Erdem | Andrés Solís Montero | Ming Tang | Siwei Lyu | A. Berg | Yang Li | Zhenyu He | O. Mikšík | Amanda Berg | F. Porikli | Aykut Erdem | Michael Felsberg | Jiri Matas | Jorgen Ahlberg | Alfredo Petrosino | Bohyung Han | Fahad Shahbaz Khan | Gao Zhu | Hongdong Li | Horst Bischof | Horst Possegger | Jianke Zhu | Jochen Lang | José María Martínez Sanchez | Ming Tang | Qingming Huang | Richard Bowden | Siwei Lyu | Tao-cheng Hu | Wenbo Li | Wolfgang Hübner | Xin Li | Zhan Xu | Abdelrahman Eldesokey | Mahdieh Poostchi

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