Call for Nominations for the 2026 Pierre Devijver Award
Konstantinos Sechidis
The Technical Committee on Statistical Pattern Recognition (TC1) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) established the Pierre Devijver Award to commemorate Pierre Devijver, one of the founders of statistical pattern recognition:
https://iapr.org/awards/ssspr-awards/pierre-devijver-award/.
We invite nominations for the 2026 Pierre Devijver Award. Candidates should be outstanding scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of statistical pattern recognition and closely related areas. You can find the list of previous award winners here: https://sites.google.com/view/iapr-tc1/pierre-devijver-award.
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 28th of February 2026.
The IAPR Technical Committee 1 board
Konstantinos Sechidis (Chair) and Maura Pintor (Vice-Chair)