ICPR 2026: International Conference on Pattern Recognition

ICPR 2026, the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, takes place 17–22 August 2026 at the Lyon International Convention Center, France. It is the flagship event of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and a top-tier venue spanning computer vision, machine learning, image processing, and speech and language.

What you gain & who presents

ICPR offers a broad technical programme plus competitions, tutorials, workshops, a doctoral consortium and the co-located S+SSPR. Keynotes come from leaders across the field's range — Henrik I. Christensen (UC San Diego, robotics), Alicia Fornés (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, document analysis) and Cuntai Guan (NTU Singapore, brain–computer interfaces) — making it a strong place for students, academics and industry researchers to forge collaborations.

Where it fits

Pattern recognition is the deep root system beneath modern computer vision and multimodal AI. ICPR is where that foundational work — across perception, recognition and learning — is presented and advanced, with a tradition stretching back over five decades.