Tentative Schedule

The following are the target dates for 2020:

  27. Jan

• NIST sends out Call for Participation in TRECVID 2020

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   1. Mar

• Final versions of TRECVID 2019 papers due at NIST

  10. Mar

• ActEV: The TRECVID'20 ActEV website: actev.nist.gov/trecvid20 is ready

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   1. Apr

• Final Guidelines for TRECVID 2020 complete

• ActEV: NIST releases ActEV Evaluation Plan and defines the target Activities

  24. Apr

• ActEV: NIST closes Scoring Server Registration

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   1. May

• Final date to register your team in TRECVID 2020 (A team is composed of 1 or more members)

• ActEV: NIST releases ActEV JSON training and validation sets and the Index files

  15. May

• ActEV: Start of ActEV 2020 Leadeboard Evaluation

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   1. Jun

• DSDI: Testing data are released

   3. Jun

• AVS: Ad-hoc video search topics available from NIST

   8. Jun

• VSUM: Topics/Queries are available for teams from NIST

  24. Jun

• AVS: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)

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 1. Jul

• AVS: Submissions due at NIST for evaluation by NOON, Washington, DC time

  8. Jul - 30. Jul

• AVS: Ad-hoc Video Search assessment at NIST

 15. Jul

• VTT: Testing data available from NIST

  21. July

• INS: Instance search topics available from NIST
• DSDI: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)

 29. Jul

• DSDI: Submissions due at NIST for evaluation by NOON, Washington, DC time

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  4. Aug

• VTT: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)
• TRECVID Workshop registration and general information available

 5. Aug

• DSDI: Evaluation results returned

 6. Aug

• AVS: Evaluation results returned

  10. Aug

• INS: Submission webpage open (trial submissions highly recommended)

 12. Aug

• VTT: Submissions due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time

 17. Aug

• INS: Instance search submissions due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time
• VSUM: Submissions due at NIST for evaluation by NOON, Washington, DC time

 24. Aug - 28. Aug

• VSUM: Video Summarization assessment at DCU

 24. Aug - 15. Sep

• INS: Instance search assessment at NIST

 26. Aug

• VTT: Evaluation results returned

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 14. Sep

• VSUM: Evaluation results returned

 21. Sep

• INS: Instance search task results returned

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  19. Oct

• TRECVID 2020 workshop registration site open. Please register by Dec. 4.

   22. Oct

• Speaker proposals due at NIST by noon Washington, DC time

• ActEV: 1:00 PM EST : End of ActEV 2020 Leaderboard Evaluation (updated Deadline) but we will keep ActEV Evaluation Leaderboard running till December 15th at 11:00 am.

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  5. Nov

• Workshop Agenda available

  19. Nov

• Workshop notebook papers due at NIST by NOON Washington, DC time (no late submissions allowed)

  26. Nov

• Copyright forms due back to NIST (see Notebook papers for instructions)

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  4. Dec

• TRECVID 2020 Workshop registration closes at 5:00 PM Washington, DC time

8 - 11. Dec  (Tue - Fri)

• TRECVID Virtual Workshop (4 days) Event

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  1. Mar 2021

• Final versions of TRECVID 2020 papers due at NIST