2021 ICANN Best Paper Awards

17 September 2021

Photo: UHH/Knowledge Technology

Knowledge Technology, the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and Comenius University congratulate the winners of the Best Paper Awards at the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2021. Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter as the ENNS president, Prof. Dr. Igor Farkas as the General Chair of ICANN 2020 and 2021 and Dr. Matthias Kerzel as a member of the Executive Committee met with the ICANN 2020 and 2021 Best Paper winners in an online award ceremony.

2021 ICANN Best Paper Awards

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

2020 ICANN Best Paper Awards

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