To recognize excellence and impact of the IAPR’s Technical Committees (TCs), the IAPR Executive Committee (ExCo) established two awards: The Outstanding TC Award and the Special Achievements Award.
The criteria for both awards are the same: excellence and impact of organized events, educational activities, and member/leader development and governance.
All IAPR Technical Committees are eligible to receive these awards which will be given biennially at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). A Call for Nominations will be sent to TC Chairs prior to the next ICPR.
The first awards were announced at ICPR2024, Kolkata, India.
2026 Award Winner in Lyon
TC1 Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques: Konstantinos Sechidis, Chair; Maura Pintor, Vice Chair
TC2 Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition: Luca Rossi, Chair; Luca Cosmo and Xiao Bai, Vice Chairs
For exemplary S+SSPR workshop organization.
TC19 Computer Vision for Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications: Genaro Vessio, Chair; Guillaume Caron, Vice Chair
For strategic leadership in establishing PRESTIGE 2026.
2024 Award Winner in Kolkata
TC2 Structural & Syntactical Pattern Recognition: Andrea Torsello, Chair; Bai Xiao, Vice-Chair
For establishing the TC2 Summer School on Deep Learning on Graphs.