SCIA - 1989, Oulu, Finland. 5th SCIA - 1987, Saltjöbaden (Stockholm), Sweden. 4th SCIA - 1985, Trondheim, Norway. 3rd SCIA - 1983, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2nd SCIA - 1981, Espoo, Finland. 1st SCIA - 1980, Linkoping, Sweden. Best Nordic thesis awards Best Nordic Thesis Award 2017-2018: “Learning Convolution Operators for Visual Tracking” by Martin Danelljan, Linköping University, Sweden. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2015-2016: “Quantum Cuts, A Quantum Mechanical Spectral Graph Partitioning Method for Salient Object Detection” by Caglar Aytekin, Tampere University, Finland. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2013-2014: “Discrete Optimization in Early Vision” by Petter Strandmark, Lund University, Sweden. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2011-2012: “Vision-Based 2D and 3D Human Activity Recognition” by Michael Boelstoft Holte, Aalborg University, Denmark. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2009-2010: “Global Optimization in Computer Vision: Convexity, Cuts and Approximation Algorithms” by Carl Olsson, Lund University, Sweden. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2007-2008: “Algorithms for Approximate Bayesian Inference with Applications to Astronomical Data Analysis” by Markus Harva, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2005-2006: “Variational Problems and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision - Theory and Applications” by Jan-Erik Solem, Lund University, Sweden. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2003-2004: “Generative Interpretation of Medical Images” by Mikkel B. Stegmann, Denmark Technical University, Denmark. Best Nordic Thesis Award 2001-2002: “Geometry and Critical Configurations of Multiple Views” by Fredrik Kahl, Lund University, Sweden. Best Nordic Thesis Award 1999-2000: “Frame Based Signal Representation and Compression” by Kjersti Engan, University of Stavanger, Norway. Best Nordic Thesis Award 1995-1996: “Invariancy Methods for Points, Curves and Surfaces in Computational Vision” by Kalle Åström, Lund University, Sweden. Best Nordic Thesis Award 1993-1994: “Low Bitrate Image Sequence Coding” by Haibo Li, Linköping University, Sweden. Best paper awards SCIA2019 Best paper award: "Predicting Novel Views Using Generative Adversarial Query Network" by Phong Nguyen-Ha, Lam Huynh Esa Rahtu, and Janne Heikkilä SCIA2017 Best Paper award: "Robust and Practical Depth Map Fusion for Time-of-Flight Cameras", by Markus Ylimäki, Juho Kannala, and Janne Heikkilä. SCIA2017 Best Student Paper Award: "Deep Kernelized Autoencoders", by Michael Kampffmeyer, Sigurd Løkse, Filippo M. Bianchi, Robert Jenssen, and Lorenzo Livi. SCIA2015 Best Student Paper Award: “Uberatlas: Robust Speed-Up of Feature-Based Registration and Multi-Atlas Segmentation” by Jennifer Alvén, Alexander Norlén, Olof Enqvist, and Fredrik Kahl. SCIA2013 Best Paper Award: “Robust Scale-adaptive Mean-Shift for Tracking” by Tomas Vojir, Jana Noskova, and Jiri Matas. SCIA2013 Best Student Paper Award: “Genus Zero Graph Segmentation: Estimation of Intracranial Volume” by Rasmus R.