The 6th Special Topic Conference on Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPRA) 2026 was successfully held in Osaka, Japan, from March 19 to 21. 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 2026 accepted papers was published in SPIE conference proceedings .
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The conference officially opened on the morning of March 19. Professor Giuliani Donatella, the Program Chair, delivered the opening remarks, while Conference Chair Professor Guoyue Chen extended a warm welcome to the attendees and wished the event complete success.

Distinguished keynote speeches were delivered by Professor Sung-Bae Cho of Yonsei University (an IEEE, AAIA, and KAST Fellow) and Professor Tetsuya Shimamura of Saitama University. Additionally, Professor Po-Tsun (Paul) Kuo of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Professor Priyanka Harjule of the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (along with Professor Hideki Yokoi) presented engaging invited talks.

The conference featured three oral presentation sessions and one poster session. Engaging presentations were delivered on topics such as intelligent biometric recognition and classification algorithms, vision-based object detection and intelligent recognition technologies, computer vision theory and computational modeling methods, and multimodal signal fusion and intelligent speech signal processing.
Three "Best Oral Presentation" awards were presented during the conference. Congratulations to the following winners!