Awards

 🏆 IAPR Best Papers Awards – ISPR’2025

At ISPR 2025, we proudly celebrate excellence and innovation in the field of intelligent systems and pattern recognition by recognizing outstanding scientific contributions presented during the conference.

 After a thorough evaluation by the Scientific and Awards Committees, the following papers have been selected as the recipients of the IAPR Best Papers Awards:

🥇 First Best Paper Award

Title: Regularized Continual Learning for Generative Crowd Counting

Authors:  Jianyong Wang,  Wenzhe Zhai,  and Mingliang Gao

Affiliation: Shandong University of Technology, China

🥈 Second Best Paper Award

Title: Prompting Recovery: Filling Missing Diabetes Data with Large Language Models

Authors: Lucia Cascone; Simone D'Assisi; Michele Nappi; Orlando Tomeo

Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy

🥉 Third Best Paper Award

Title: Promoting Shape Bias in CNNs: Frequency-Based and Contrastive Regularization for Corruption Robustness"

Authors: Robin Ranabhat; Longwei Wang; Amit K Patel; Kc Santosh
Affiliation: University of South Dakota, USA

In addition, the authors of the awarded and selected high-quality papers have been invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration in leading Q1-ranked international journals, including:

• Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier)
  (Impact Factor: 4.757 — indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, DBLP, ACM Computing Reviews, and more)

  

We warmly congratulate the award recipients and thank all authors and participants for their valuable contributions that made ISPR’2025 a highly successful scientific event.