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

IMPROVE 2023

Best Paper Award

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Video Violence Detection in the Wild
Luca Ciampi, Carlos Santiago, Joao P. Costeira, Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro and Giuseppe Amato

Best Student Paper Award

3D Semantic Scene Reconstruction from a Single Viewport
Maximilian Denninger and Rudolph Triebel

Best Poster Award

Automatic Defect Detection in Sewer Network Using Deep Learning Based Object Detector
Bach Ha, Birgit Schalter, Laura White and Joachim Köhler

IMPROVE 2022

Best Paper Award

Assessment of Dose Reduction Strategies in Wavelength-selective Neutron Tomography
Victoria H. DiStefano, Jacob M. LaManna, David L. Jacobson, Paul A. Kienzle, Daniel S. Hussey and Peter Bajcsy

Best Student Paper Award

Transfer Learning Gaussian Anomaly Detection by Fine-tuning Representations
Oliver Rippel, Arnav Chavan, Chucai Lei and Dorit Merhof

Best Poster Award

Simulation-to-Reality Domain Adaptation for Offline 3D Object Annotation on Pointclouds with Correlation Alignment
Weishuang Zhang, B. R. Kiran, Thomas Gauthier, Yanis Mazouz and Theo Steger

IMPROVE 2021

Best Paper Award

Benefits of Layered Software Architecture in Machine Learning Applications
Ármin Romhányi and Zoltán Vámossy

Best Student Paper Award

Biometric Authentication System based on Hand Geometry and Palmprint Features
Laura G. Oldal and András Kovács

Best Poster Award

Food Recognition for Dietary Monitoring during Smoke Quitting
Sebastiano Battiato, Pasquale Caponnetto, Oliver Giudice, Mazhar Hussain, Roberto Leotta, Alessandro Ortis and Riccardo Polosa