Young Professionals

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 vision technology education and to provide a bridge between research and industry.

Below you may find the awardee’s presentation of his/her honored work held at the respective annual EMVA Business Conference:


Advanced Deep Learning for Harvest Robotics
Seville, 2023 - The EMVA Young Professional Award 2023 goes to Dr. Pieter Blok, for his work “Advanced Deep Learning for Harvest Robotics”. Pieter Blok is a researcher in Computer ... open presentation
Hyperspectral Recovery from RGB
Prague 2017 - The EMVA Young Professional Award 2017 goes to Mr. Boaz Arad, for his work 'Sparse Recovery of Hyperspectral Signal from Natural RGB Images'. Arad, age 32, obtained ... open presentation
Adaptable high-resolution real-time stereo tracking
Athens, 2015 - The EMVA Young Professional Award 2015 goes to Benjamin Busam, for his work on adaptable high-resolution real-time stereo tracking. Busam, who is 27 years old holds a Master degree in mathematics and is currently external PhD Student ... open presentation