ANNPR 2026 – Call for Papers and Special Sessions

[Sinem Aslan]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce ANNPR 2026 – the 12th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, which will take place October 7–9, 2026, at the University of Milan (Italy). The workshop will be held in person.

Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

Website: https://annpr2026.unimi.it

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Call for Papers

ANNPR 2026 invites original contributions on artificial neural networks and machine learning for pattern recognition, including:

Methodological advances • Supervised, unsupervised & reinforcement learning • Deep learning architectures (CNNs, RNNs, hybrid models) • Generative models & probabilistic methods • Explainability, robustness & generalization • Meta-learning, AutoML & ensemble methods

Applications • Image processing, segmentation & object detection • NLP & multimodal learning • Biometrics & speech processing • Bio/medical & industrial applications • Data analytics & clustering

Paper submission deadline: May 14, 2026

Maximum length: 12 pages (Springer LNAI format)

Submission via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=iapr.org/TC3/2026/Workshop/ANNPR

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Call for Special Sessions

We welcome proposals for Special Sessions (Research Track) on emerging and timely topics aligned with the workshop themes.

• Proposal deadline: April 1, 2026

• Proposals should include title, description, chairs, rationale, and potential contributors

• Send proposals to: ann...@gmail.com

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Important Dates

• Special Session Proposals: April 1, 2026

• Paper Submission: May 14, 2026

• Notification: June 29, 2026

• Camera-ready Papers: July 13, 2026

• Workshop: October 7–9, 2026

We would appreciate it if you could share this announcement with interested colleagues and students.

Best regards,

Giovanna Maria Dimitri (University of Milan)
Sinem Aslan (University of Milan)
Edmondo Trentin (University of Siena)
Mirco Ravanelli (Concordia University)
Cem Subakan (Laval University)
Stefano Montanelli (University of Milan)

ANNPR 2026 Organizing Committee
annp...@gmail.com