Best Paper Awards 2025

The Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA) invites students to participate in the PREMIA Best Student Paper Awards for papers (including journal and conference papers) accepted or published between 1 April 2024 and 31 May 2025.

Submissions can be made by the student author, supported by their supervisor, or directly nominated by the student’s supervisor.

Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025

The nominated papers will be evaluated by a review panel authorized by the PREMIA board. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to present their papers at PREMIA’s Members’ Night & Annual General Meeting in August 2025 (exact date to be announced). The awards will be determined after the presentations.

Award Categories:

• Gold Award: Cash prize of S$500
• Silver Awards: Cash prize of S$200
• Honourable Mention Awards: Cash prize of S$100

Eligibility Criteria:

1. The main author of the paper must be a PREMIA member at the time of the event. Applicants can join PREMIA at the time of submission to be eligible for the award. For membership registration or renewal, visit PREMIA Membership.
2. The main author must be a registered student (full-time or part-time) at a tertiary education institution in Singapore at the time the paper was submitted for publication.
3. The paper must report work done while the author was a student in Singapore.
4. The paper must be accepted or published between 1 April 2024 and 31 May 2025, both dates inclusive, in either a journal or a conference.
5. The paper must address a topic relevant to PREMIA. Relevant topics may include pattern recognition, machine intelligence, computer vision, speech analysis, natural language processing, robotics, multimedia, document analysis, character recognition, and more. Methods such as statistical techniques, neural networks, deep learning, evolutionary programming, and transfer learning are also considered.
6. Shortlisted candidates are required to attend the Members’ Night event and present their papers.
7. Each author may submit only one paper; multiple submissions from the same author are not allowed.
8. For papers co-authored by several students, only one submission will be considered.

Submission Instructions:

1. Submit your paper via the following link: PREMIA BSPC 2025 Submission*.
2. Attach the following documents with your submission:
   • A PDF copy of the accepted or to-be-published paper.
   • A PDF copy of the acceptance notification letter/email from the journal editor or conference organizers.
   • The supervisor’s supporting or acknowledgment email.
   • Optional supporting documents such as reviewer comments or a statement from the supervisor.