IEEE Computer Society Celebrates 2026 Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) Awardees

LOA ALTIMOS, Calif., 3 July 2026 – Today, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) celebrates the recipients of its Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) awards. Presented at the IEEE CS/Computer Vision Foundation Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Denver in June, 2026 awards include the Longuet-Higgins Prize, PAMI Young Researcher Award, and PAMI Thomas Huang Memorial Prize.

"The TCPAMI Awards recognize the ideas and individuals advancing computer vision in meaningful and lasting ways, from research breakthroughs that continue to shape the field years later, to early-career innovators pushing new frontiers, to leaders whose mentorship and service strengthen our community," said Gang Hua, chair of IEEE CS TCPAMI and director, applied science, at Amazon. “We are proud to celebrate this year's honorees and their extraordinary contributions to the future of pattern analysis, computer vision, AI, and more."

IEEE CS TCPAMI selected the following as this year’s award honorees.

Longuet-Higgins Prize

The Longuet-Higgins Prize honors a seminal work that achieves a “test of time” status. It annually looks back a decade to honor, in retrospect, the CVPR papers that have made a significant impact on computer vision research. The CVPR 2016 papers receiving the award in 2026 include:

• Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition, Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun
• You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection, Joseph Redmon, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick, Ali Farhadi

Young Researcher Award

The PAMI Young Researcher Award recognizes a researcher, within seven years of completing their Ph.D., for outstanding early career research contributions. This year’s honorees are:

• Deepak Pathak, Raj Reddy Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO/Co-founder of Skild AI
• Vincent Sitzmann, Assistant Professor, Jamieson Career Development Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thomas Huang Memorial Prize

The PAMI Thomas Huang Memorial Prize honors researchers who are recognized as examples in research, teaching/mentoring, and service to the computer vision community. The award is given in memory of the late Prof. Thomas S. Huang, a pioneering scholar who left deep impressions in multiple fields including computer vision and image processing, and a role model who contributed to the growth and well-being of several generations of researchers in the community. This year’s awardee is:

• Noah Snaveley, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech

The 2027 TCPAMI Awards will be presented at CVPR 2027, taking place 20-24 June, in Seattle, Wash. For more information on TCPAMI and the nomination process, visit https://tc.computer.org/tcpami/.

About the Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI)

The Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) is concerned with pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language understanding, image processing, and computer vision. Its interests include methodology, applications, systems organization, and technology. The operations of the TCPAMI are conducted under the Computer Society bylaws and the TC PAMI bylaws. For more information on TCPAMI, visit https://tc.computer.org/tcpami/.

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