Best Paper Awards

ENNS sponsors Best Paper Awards at the yearly International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN.

You can find the names of the awardees of recent years below.

2024

  • ENNS Best Paper Award
    Biologically-plausible Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling from Vector Symbolic Algebra-encoded Distributions by Michael Furlong, Kathryn Simone, Nicole Dumont, Madeleine Bartlett, Terrence C. Stewart, Jeff Orchard, and Chris Eliasmith
  • Springer Best Paper Award
    When Robots Get Chatty: Grounding Multimodal Human-Robot Conversation and Collaboration
    by Philipp Allgeuer, Hassan Ali, Stefan Wermter
    Resonator-Gated RNNs by Robert Deibel, Shahram Eivazi, Martin Butz V. Butz, Sebastian Otte

2023

  • Springer and ENNS Best Paper Award
    Symmetry-Aware Siamese Network: Exploiting Pathological Asymmetry for Chest X-Ray Analysis by Helen Schneider, Elif Cansu Yildiz, David Biesner, Yannik C. Layer, Benjamin Wulff, Sebastian Nowak, Maike Theis, Alois M. Sprinkart, Ulrike I. Attenberger, and Rafet Sifa

2022

  • ENNS Best Paper Award
    Stream-based Active Learning with Verification Latency in Non-stationary Environments by Andrea Castellani, Sebastian Schmitt and Barbara Hammer
  • Springer Best Paper Award
    Towards Both Accurate and Robust Neural Networks without Extra Data by Faqiang Liu and Rong Zhao

2021

  • 1st ENNS Best Paper Award
    EPE-NAS: Efficient Performance Estimation Without Training for Neural Architecture Search by Vasco Lopes, Saeid Alirezazadeh, Luís Alexandre
  • 2nd ENNS Best Paper Award
    Multi-Branch Network for Small Human Pose Estimation by Ge Yuchen, Zhongqiu Zhao, Gao Yao, Min Hai, Weidong Tian
  • 3rd ENNS Best Paper Award
    DAEMA: Denoising Autoencoder with Mask Attention by Simon Tihon, Muhammad Usama Javaid, Damien Fourure, Nicolas Posocco, Thomas Peel
  • 4th ENNS Best Paper Award
    A Computational Model of the Effect of Short-Term Monocular Deprivation on Binocular Rivalry in the Context of Amblyopia by Norman Seeliger, Jochen Triesch

You can read more about the 2021 awards on the ICANN 2021 homepage.


2020

  • 1st Springer and ENNS Best Paper Award (1000 EUR)
    Exploration via Progress-Driven Intrinsic Rewards, by Nicolas Bougie, Ryutaro Ichise
  • 2nd ENNS Best Paper Award (500 EUR)
    From Geometries to Contact Graphs, by Martin Meier, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter
  • 3rd ENNS Best Paper Award (500 EUR)
    Two-Step FORCE Learning Algorithm for Fast Convergence in Reservoir Computing, by Hiroto Tamura, Gouhei Tanaka

2019

Two ENNS Best Paper Awards (500 EUR each) were awarded to:

  • Bidirectional associative memory with block coding: A comparison of iterative retrieval methods by A. Knoblauch and G. Palm
  • Bistable perception in conceptor networks by F. Meyer zu Driehausen, R. Busche, J. Leugering, G. Pipa

Two ICANN Best Paper Awards (500 EUR each) were awarded to:

  • Prototypes within Minimum Enclosing Balls by Christian Bauckhage, Rafet Sifa, Tiansi Dong
  • Gradient-Based Learning of Compositional Dynamics with Modular RNNs by Sebastian Otte, Patricia Rubisch, Martin Butz

2018

Two Best Paper Awards (500 EUR each) were awarded to:

  • Towards End-to-End Raw Audio Music Synthesis by Manfred Eppe, Tayfun Alpay, Stefan Wermter
  • An STDP Rule for the Improvement and Stabilization of the Attractor Dynamics of the Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Network by Jérémie Cabessa, Alessandro Villa