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