Prestigious industry award rewards outstanding work with prize money, presentation at EMVA Conference in Dubrovnik and free entry at European Machine Vision Forum 2018.

The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or computer vision.

It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association to further support innovation in our industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education and to provide a bridge between research and industry. In this context, with the call for papers for the Young Professional Award 2018 the EMVA would like to specifically encourage students and young scientists from European institutions to focus on challenges in the field of machine vision and to apply latest research results and findings in computer vision to the practical needs of the machine vision industry.

Please download the 2018 Young Professional Award Call for application 〉

Statement of Mr. Tolga Birdal, winner of the 2016 Young Professional Award:

In my perspective, the award signifies that the work is of benefit to an important and highly qualified community. This is an invaluable personal reward. Being selected by the renowned EMVA jury legitimises the worth of what I do and gives me huge encouragement.
Moreover, the EMVA is made up of individuals and companies from all over Europe, creating an exclusive machine vision network. Getting introduced into such a network is certainly an honour and holds great potential for my future career.

Read the complete interview published by EMVA media partner Imaging & Machine Vision Europe here.