Tentative Schedule

The following are the target dates for 2021:

  15. Jan

• NIST sends out Call for Participation in TRECVID 2021

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  7. Feb

• ActEV: The TRECVID'21 ActEV website: actev.nist.gov/trecvid21 is ready
• ActEV: NIST posts final Evaluation Plan

  26. Feb

• Final versions of TRECVID 2020 papers due at NIST

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  1. March

• TRECVID 2021 slack workspace available for registered team members (It's highly encouraged to register your team early before March)
• ActEV: NIST releases ActEV evaluation plan and defines the target Activities
• ActEV: NIST releases ActEV JSON training, validation sets and the Index files
• ActEV: Start of ActEV 2021 Leaderboard Evaluation

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   1. Apr

• Final Guidelines for TRECVID 2021 complete

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  May 4 - May 19

• VTT: Ground truth annotations at NIST

   17. May

• VSUM Main Task (No VSUM-questions provided): Topics/Queries are available for teams from NIST

  May 18 - June 25

• DSDI: Ground truth annotations at NIST

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   1. Jun

• Final date to register your team in TRECVID 2021 (A team is composed of 1 or more members)

   3. Jun

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

 17. June

• VTT: Testing data available from NIST

  24. Jun

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

  29. Jun

• INS: Search topics/queries are released by NIST

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  1. Jul

• AVS: Submissions due at NIST for evaluation
• VSUM: Submission page open (trial submissions highly recommended)
• DSDI: Testing data are released

  7. Jul

• VSUM Main Task (No VSUM-questions provided): Submissions due at NIST

  8. Jul - 30. Jul

• AVS: Ad-hoc Video Search assessment at NIST

  10. July

• VTT: Submission page open (trial submissions highly recommended)

  17. July

• VTT: Submissions due at NIST

  19. July

• VSUM SubTask (VSUM-questions provided): Topics/Queries are available for teams from NIST

  20. July

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

  20. July

• VTT Fill-in-the-Blank Subtask: Testing data available from NIST

   23. July

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

  27. July

• INS: Instance search submissions due at NIST

  30. Jul

• DSDI: Submissions due at NIST for evaluation

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 3. Aug - 25. Aug

• INS: Instance search assessment at NIST

   6. Aug

• AVS: Evaluation results returned to teams

 13. Aug

• DSDI: Evaluation results returned to teams

  16. Aug

• VSUM Subtask (VSUM-questions provided): Submissions due at NIST
• VTT Fill-in-the-Blank Subtask: Submissions due at NIST

  20. Aug

• VTT: Evaluation results returned to teams

  23. Aug - 1. Sep

• VSUM: Video Summarization assessment at DCU

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   1. Sep

• INS: Instance search task results returned to teams

  10. Sep

• VSUM: Evaluation results returned to teams

  10. Sep

• VTT Fill-in-the-Blank Subtask: Evaluation results returned to teams

  20. Sep

• ActEV: 1:00 PM EST: End of ActEV 2021 Leaderboard Evaluation

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  4. Oct

• TRECVID 2021 workshop registration open

   15. Oct

• Speaker proposals due at NIST

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  1. Nov

• Workshop Agenda available

  15. Nov

• Workshop notebook papers due at NIST

  15. Nov

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

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  1. Dec

• TRECVID 2021 Workshop registration closes at 5:00 PM Washington, DC time

7 - 10. Dec  (Tue - Fri)

• TRECVID Virtual Workshop (4 half-days)

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  1. Mar 2022

• Final versions of TRECVID 2021 papers due at NIST