Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

NCTA 2023

Best Paper Award

Neural Network-Based Approach for Supervised Nonlinear Feature Selection
Mamadou Kanouté, Edith Grall-Maës and Pierre Beauseroy

Best Student Paper Award

Molecule Builder: Environment for Testing Reinforcement Learning Agents
Petr Hyner, Jan Hůla and Mikoláš Janota

NCTA 2022

Best Paper Award

Sample-based Uncertainty Quantification with a Single Deterministic Neural Network
Takuya Kanazawa and Chetan Gupta

Best Student Paper Award

Designing RNA Sequences by Self-play
Stephen Obonyo, Nicolas Jouandeau and Dickson Owuor

Best Poster Award

A Haptic Interface for Guiding People with Visual Impairment using Three Dimensional Computer Vision
Kevin Swingler and Chris Grigson

NCTA 2021

Best Paper Award

Relaxed Dissimilarity-based Symbolic Histogram Variants for Granular Graph Embedding
Luca Baldini, Alessio Martino and Antonello Rizzi

Best Student Paper Award

Accurate 3D Object Detection from Point Cloud Data using Bird’s Eye View Representations
Nerea Aranjuelo, Guus Engels, David Montero, Marcos Nieto, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Luis Unzueta and Oihana Otaegui

Best Poster Award

Is It Possible to Recognize Apple Employees by Their LinkedIn Profile Picture?
Thanakij Wanavit and Leslie Klieb

NCTA 2020

Best Paper Award

Improving the Training of Convolutional Neural Network using Between-class Distance
Jiani Liu, Xiang Zhang and Yonggang Lu

Best Student Paper Award

Neural Semantic Pointers in Context
Alessio Plebe and Arianna Pavone

NCTA 2019

Best Paper Award

Risk-averse Distributional Reinforcement Learning: A CVaR Optimization Approach
Silvestr Stanko and Karel Macek

Best Student Paper Award

Breast Cancer Automatic Diagnosis System using Faster Regional Convolutional Neural Networks
Lourdes Duran-Lopez, Juan P. Dominguez-Morales, Isabel Amaya-Rodriguez, Francisco Luna-Perejon, Javier Civit-Masot, Saturnino Vicente-Diaz and Alejandro Linares-Barranco

Best Poster Award

Learning Method of Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks to Realize Various Firing Patterns using Particle Swarm Optimization
Yasuaki Kuroe, Hitoshi Iima and Yutaka Maeda

NCTA 2016

Best Paper Award

Modelling the Grid-like Encoding of Visual Space in Primates
Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters

Best Student Paper Award

Neural Model for the Influence of Shading on the Multistability of the Perception of Body Motion
Leonid Fedorov, Joris Vangeneugden and Martin Giese

NCTA 2015

Best Paper Award

A Heteroassociative Learning Model Robust to Interference
Randa Kassab and Frédéric Alexandre

Best Student Paper Award

A Comparison of Learning Rules for Mixed Order Hyper Networks
Kevin Swingler

NCTA 2014

Best Paper Award

Derivative Free Training of Recurrent Neural Networks - A Comparison of Algorithms and Architectures
Branimir Todorović, Miomir Stanković and Claudio Moraga

Best Student Paper Award

Artificial Neural Network Models of Intersegmental Reflexes
Alicia Costalago Meruelo, David M. Simpson, S. Veres and Philip L. Newland

NCTA 2013

Best Paper Award

Growing Surface Structures
Hendrik Annuth and Christian-A. Bohn

Best Student Paper Award

Magnitude Sensitive Image Compression
Enrique Pelayo, David Buldain and Carlos Orrite

NCTA 2012

Best Paper Award

Artificial Intelligence Methods in Reactive Navigation of Mobile Robots Formation
Zenon Hendzel, Marcin Szuster and Andrzej Burghardt

IJCCI 2012

Best Paper Award

Using Self-organized Criticality for Adjusting the Parameters of a Particle Swarm
Carlos M. Fernandes, Juan Julián Merelo and Agostinho C. Rosa

Towards an Approach to Select Features from Low Quality Datasets
José Manuel Cadenas, María del Carmen Garrido and Raquel Martínez

Artificial Intelligence Methods in Reactive Navigation of Mobile Robots Formation
Zenon Hendzel, Marcin Szuster and Andrzej Burghardt

Best Student Paper Award

Evolving Art using Measures for Symmetry, Compositional Balance and Liveliness
Eelco den Heijer

Non-commutative Fuzzy Logic psMTL - An Alternative Proof for the Standard Completeness Theorem
Denisa Diaconescu

Early Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Detection using Multi-subnetworks of the Brain
Jaroslav Rokicki, Hiyoshi Kazuko, Francois-Benoit Vialatte, Andrius Ušinskas and Andrzej Cichocki

NCTA 2011

Best Paper Award

DESIGN OF RECURRENT FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK AND GENERAL REGRESSION NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLER FOR TRAVELING-WAVE ULTRASONIC MOTOR
Tien-Chi Chen, Tsai-Jiun Ren and Yi-Wei Lou

Best Student Paper Award

NEUROFUZZY MIN-MAX NETWORKS IMPLEMENTATION ON FPGA
Alessandro Cinti and Antonello Rizzi

ICNC 2010

Best Paper Award

SMART GROWING CELLS
Hendrik Annuth and Christian-A. Bohn

Best Student Paper Award

CORTICAL RHYTHMS INDUCED BY TMS STIMULATION - Analysis with a Neural Mass Model
Filippo Cona, Melissa Zavaglia, Mauro Ursino and Mario Rosanova

ICNC 2009

Best Paper Award

A COMBINATION OF CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE THE OPTIMAL DOMAIN FOR STELLAR SPECTRA SIGNAL PROCESSING

Best Student Paper Award

A NOVEL DUAL ADAPTIVE NEURO-CONTROLLER BASED ON THE UNSCENTED TRANSFORM FOR MOBILE ROBOTS