The deadline for the call for nominations is February 28, 2026.
At the request of the IAPR, the Technical Committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition (TC1) established a special award to honor Pierre Devijver, one of the founding figures of statistical pattern recognition, who passed away in 1996. To commemorate his contributions, the committee created the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture.
We call for nominations of candidates for the 2026 award. The lecture will be presented during S+SSPR 2026, the IAPR Joint International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2026) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2024), to be held in Bern, Switzerland, from 24th to 26th August 2026. The winner will be expected to deliver the Pierre Devijver Award Lecture in person during the workshop.
We invite nominations of outstanding candidates for the award, to be selected from among leading scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of statistical pattern recognition and closely related areas. The award committee, composed of previous Pierre Devijver Award recipients, will evaluate the nominations, and select the awardee.
Please send the names of your nominees by email to the TC1 Chair at kostas.sechidis [at] novartis.com, with a maximum of two nominations per nominator, using [IAPR-TC1-PDA] as the subject line. The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2026.
The IAPR TC1 Board
Konstantinos Sechidis and Maura Pintor
Thomas G. Dietterich
Yoshua Bengio
Fabio Roli
Edwin R. Hancock
Mario Figueiredo
George Nagy
Luc Devroye
Tin Kam Ho
Robert P.W. Duin
Erkki Oja
Anil K. Jain
Josef Kittler