The 5th Special Topic Conference on Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPRA) 2024 was successfully held in Istanbul, Turkey, the world's capital, from November 11th to 13th, 2024. The field of machine learning driven by big data has developed rapidly in recent years, and pattern recognition has become a popular research area. Given the rapid development of pattern recognition technology worldwide, it has become a priority to focus on cutting-edge research and development and to promote collaboration in multidisciplinary research areas. At this conference, you had the opportunity to learn about new developments in the field of pattern recognition and to exchange your work through poster presentations or oral reports. We hope to provide a broad platform for exchange for experts and scholars through efficient and close communication, and the collision of ideas with outstanding experts from all over the world.

SPRA 2024 accepted papers was published in SPIE conference proceedings with ISBN Vol. 13540.
Online: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13540.toc
Successfully indexed by EI Compendex and SCOPUS.

The conference opened with welcome remarks by Professor Giuliani Donatella from the University of Bologna, Italy.
Keynote speeches were then delivered by IEEE Fellow Professor Huang Deshuang from the University of Ningbo Institute of Technology, Professor Dmitry Nikolaev from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor Giuliani Donatella from the University of Bologna, Italy.

After the speeches,  parallel sessions were held and presenters shared the latest research around the follow topics. One best presentation were selected from each session, evaluated from: originality; applicability; technical Merit; qualities of PPT; English. They were awarded the certificate after the finish of sessions. They are: