{"id":1240,"date":"2026-09-04T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/?page_id=1240"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:07:56","slug":"award-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/index.php\/award-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Award Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Best Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Benchmark of State-Space Models vs. Transformers and BiLSTM-based Models for Historical Newspaper OCR<\/strong> &#8211; Merveilles AGBETI-MESSAN, Thierry Paquet, Pierrick Tranouez, Clement Chatelain, Stephane Nicolas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/best-paper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1229\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Best Student Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Improving MLLM Historical Record Extraction with Test-Time Image Augmentation<\/strong> &#8211; Taylor Archibald, Tony Martinez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/best-student-paper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1230\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Best Student Paper (Runner Up)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Democratizing the medieval English legal tradition<\/strong> &#8211; Michael Zhang, Elise Wang, Charlotte Whatley, Seth Strickland, Dylan Bannon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/best-paper-runnerup.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1228\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Doctoral Consortium Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tim Hallyburton<\/strong> &#8211; Combining Images and Graph Neural Networks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DC_Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1233\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Young Investigator Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silvia Cascianelli and Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/YI_Silvia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1239\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/YI_Jorge.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1238\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Service Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Elisa Barney Smith and Jean-Marc Ogier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Service_Laurence.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1236\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Service_Elisa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1235\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Service-JeanMarc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1237\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Competitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CMMHWR26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1232\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/circle_ID.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1231\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/anyscript.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1227\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" src=\"https:\/\/icdar2026.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/falsID.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1234\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Paper A Benchmark of State-Space Models vs. Transformers and BiLSTM-based Models for Historical Newspaper OCR &#8211; 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