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.
    
     2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 
    
            
            
            
                VISAPP 2015
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                VISAPP 2014
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Image and Video Analysis
                            
                            
                            
                           
                            
                                Fast Segmentation for Texture-based Cartography of whole Slide Images
                            
                            
                            Grégory Apou, Benoît Naegel, Germain Forestier, Friedrich Feuerhake and Cédric Wemmert
                            
                            
                         
                    
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Image and Video Understanding
                            
                            
                            
                           
                            
                                Can 3D Shape of the Face Reveal your Age?
                            
                            
                            Baiqiang Xia, Boulbaba Ben Amor, Mohamed Daoudi and Hassen Drira
                            
                            
                         
                    
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Image Formation and Preprocessing
                            
                            
                            
                           
                            
                                Active Contour Segmentation with Affine Coordinate-based Parametrization
                            
                            
                            Q. Xue, L. Igual, A. Berenguel, M. Guerrieri and L. Garrido
                            
                            
                         
                    
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
                            
                            
                            
                           
                            
                                Image-based Modelling of Ocean Surface Circulation from Satellite Acquisitions
                            
                            
                            Dominique Béréziat and Isabelle Herlin
                            
                            
                         
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                VISAPP 2013
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Image and Video Understanding
                            
                            
                            
                           
                            
                                Social Cues in Group Formation and Local Interactions for Collective Activity Analysis
                            
                            
                            Khai N. Tran, Apurva Bedagkar-Gala, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris and Shishir K. Shah
                            
                            
                         
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Image and Video Understanding
                            
                            
                               
                            
                                Automated Classification of Therapeutic Face Exercises using the Kinect
                            
                            
                            Cornelia Lanz, Birant Sibel Olgay, Joachim Denzler and Horst-Michael Gross
                            
                            
                         
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                VISAPP 2012
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Image and Video Understanding
                            
                            
                            
                           
                            
                                DETECTOR OF FACIAL LANDMARKS LEARNED BY THE STRUCTURED OUTPUT SVM
                            
                            
                            Michal Uřičař, Vojtěch Franc and Václav Hlaváč
                            
                            
                         
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                VISAPP 2011
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                            
                                Area: 
                                Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
                            
                            
                               
                            
                                FAST LEARNABLE OBJECT TRACKING AND DETECTION IN HIGH-RESOLUTION OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGES
                            
                            
                            David Hurych, Karel Zimmermann and Tomáš Svoboda
                            
                            
                         
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                VISAPP 2010
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
 
VISAPP 2009
Best Paper Award
A NOVEL APPROACH TO ORTHOGONAL DISTANCE LEAST SQUARES FITTING OF GENERAL CONICS
Andrew Paplinski, Charles Esson and Sudanthi Wijewickrema   
Best Student Paper Award
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION AND ITS SUB-MODELS IN NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICS
Jan-Mark Geusebroek and Victoria Yanulevskaya   
VISAPP 2008
Best Paper Award
ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF COMPRESSION TO VISUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION
Gunther Heidemann and Helge Ritter
Best Student Paper Award
HEAD POSE ESTIMATION IN FACE RECOGNITION ACROSS POSE SCENARIOS
M. Saquib Sarfraz and Olaf Hellwich 
VISAPP 2007
Best Paper Award
A LEARNING APPROACH TO CONTENT-BASED IMAGE CATEGORIZATION AND RETRIEVAL
Washington Mio, Yuhua Zhu and Xiuwen Liu
Best Student Paper Award
AUTONOMOUS TRACKING SYSTEM FOR AIRPORT LIGHTING QUALITY CONTROL
J. H. Niblock, K. McMenemy, S. Ferguson and J. X. Peng