Schedule

Tentative 2025 Schedule:

  17. Feb

• NIST sends out Call for Participation in TREC 2025

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  1. March

• Final versions of TREC 2024 papers are due

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   1. Apr

• Final Guidelines for tracks are complete
• AVS: Ad-hoc video search topics available from NIST

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  6. May

• VQA: Annotations for VQA testing dataset start

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  3. Jun

• VQA: Annotations for VQA testing dataset end

  24. June

• VQA: Testing data available for answer generation (AG) task

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  21. July

• AVS: Submission page open (trial submissions highly recommended) for main task queries: Submit AVS runs Here

  28. July

• AVS: Submission page closes (all AVS runs need to be submitted prior to July 28)
• VQA: Submission page open. Submit "answer generation (AG)" runs Here

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  4. August

• VQA: Submission page closes (all "answer generation (AG)" runs need to be submitted prior to August 4)

  8. August

• VQA: Testing data available for multiple choice (MC) task.

  5. Aug - 9. Sep

• AVS: Ad-hoc Video Search assessment at NIST

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  8. Sep

• VQA: Submission page open. Submit "multiple choice (MC)" runs Here

  15. Sep

• VQA: Submission page closes (all "multiple choice (MC)" runs need to be submitted prior to September 15)

  22. Sep

• AVS: Ad-hoc Video Search results released back to teams.

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  1. Oct

• VQA: AG and MC tasks results are released back to teams.

  14. Oct

• Speaker proposals due at NIST

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   1. Nov

• Workshop Agenda available

   10. Nov

• TREC/TAC/TRECVID 2025 Workshop registration closes at 5:00 PM Washington, DC time

   10. Nov

• Workshop notebook papers due at NIST
• Copyright form due back to NIST (see Notebook papers for instructions)

  17. Nov - 21. Nov

• TREC/TAC/TRECVID 2025 workshop in Maryland, USA.

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   3. Feb 2026

• Final versions of TRECVID 2025 papers due at NIST