Three paper awards were announced and presented. The awarding papers were selected based on an evaluation of review scores and presentation quality by respective committees consisting of members appointed by the technical program chairs. The recipients of the paper awards are as follows:

Best Paper: Yi Jean-Paul Van Oosten and Lambert Schomaker for the paper entitled “A reevaluation and benchmark of hidden Markov models”

Best Student Paper: Moises Diaz-Cabrera, Miguel Ferrer and Aythami Morales Moreno for the paper entitled “Cognitive Inspired Model to Generate Duplicated Static Signature Images”

Best Poster Paper: Yi-Chao Wu, Fei Yin and Cheng-Lin Liu for the paper entitled “Evaluation of Geometric Context Models for Handwritten Numeral String Recognition”