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