An ICDAR Award Program has been established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Document Analysis and Recognition in one or more of the following areas:
Every two years, two awards categories are presented. Namely, the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Young Researcher Award (less than 40 years old at the time the award is made). Each award consists of a token gift and a suitably inscribed certificate. The recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award is also invited to deliver the Opening Keynote Speech at ICDAR.
A call for nominations is circulated by TC10 and TC11 about six months before an ICDAR takes place.
Masaki Nakagawa
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for his outstanding contributions in online handwriting beyond the Latin Alphabet, early integration of handwriting recognition in practically useful systems, and his excellent contributions for the ICDAR community, connecting us with Industry in Asia.
Mickaël Coustaty
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for his notable contributions in developing systems for historical documents processing and his dedicated commitment to the document analysis community.
Prof. Andreas Dengel
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for contributions in semantic technologies applied to reading systems, the impact of his innovative solutions in the socio-economic sectors, and his leadership and strategic vision of the document analysis community.
Dr. Faisal Shafait
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator award for his outstanding contributions to document image analysis and computational forensics.
Dr. Xiang Bai
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator award for his outstanding contributions to scene text understanding.
Prof. Rangachar Kasturi
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for seminal research in document image analysis and graphics recognition shaping the evolution of the document image analysis field, and for outstanding leadership to both the ICDAR and the wider international pattern recognition community.
Dr. Alicia Fornes
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for outstanding contributions in the recognition of handwriting, text and graphics, with high impact to the field of Digital Humanities, and her service to the IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition.
Prof. Venu Govindaraju
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for pioneering contributions to pattern recognition and its application to the fields of handwriting recognition, multilingual document analysis, and biometrics; and for the development of real-time engineered systems.
Dr. Marcus Liwicki
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for innovative and fundamental research on machine learning, handwritingrecognition, forensics, document analysis and graph matching, as well as excellent services to the ICDAR community.
Prof. Rejean Plamondon
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for theoretical contributions to the understanding of human movement and its applications to signature verification, handwriting recognition, instruction, and health assessment, and for promoting on-line document processing in numerous multidisciplinary fields.
Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for outstanding service to the ICDAR community in a variety of roles, as well as innovative research in human perception-based document analysis.
Prof. Sargur Srihari
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for his outstanding and continued contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis, and services to the community.
Dr. Masakazu Iwamura
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for his outstanding contributions to camera-based document analysis and document image retrieval.
Prof. Horst Bunke
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for his outstanding and continued contributions to research and education in handwriting recognition and document analysis, and services to the community.
Dr. Katrin Franke
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for her outstanding contributions to handwriting analysis and computational forensics.
Dr. Hiromichi Fujisawa
IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award for outstanding contributions to industrial document analysis and to the ICDAR community.
Prof. Josep Llados
IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award for his outstanding service to the ICDAR community and his innovative research in graphics recognition.
Prof. Ching Y. Suen
ICDAR Outstanding Achievement Award for more than thirty years of outstanding leadership, research and service in the pattern recognition, handwriting recognition and document analysis areas
Dr. Cheng-Lin Liu
ICDAR Young Scientist Award for his outstanding research in Handwritten Kanji Character Recognition and its impact on industrial applications
Dr. Apostolos Antonacopoulos
ICDAR Young Scientist Award for outstanding service to the ICDAR community and his innovative research in historical document processing applications
Prof. Henry Baird
ICDAR Award for Outstanding Contributions
Dr. Liu Wenyin
ICDAR Young Scientist Award
Dr. Umadapa Pal
ICDAR Young Scientist Award
Prof. George Nagy
ICDAR Award for Lifetime Contributions
Prof. Venu Govindaraju
ICDAR Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Prof. Juergen Schuermann
ICDAR Lifetime Award
Dr. Atul Chhabra
ICDAR Young Scientist Award
Dr. Tin Kam Ho
ICDAR Young Scientist Award
Dr. Jonathan Hull
ICDAR Investigator Award
Prof. Andreas Dengel
ICDAR Young Investigator Award