About us

The 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI 2026) aims to establish a platform for academic exchange and collaboration among global experts, scholars, and professionals in the field of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and IEEE.

Important Dates

Mon, Jun 15, 2026
Submission deadline

Call For Paper

Image Analysis
Virtual Reality
Intelligent Manufacturing
Intelligent interaction
Visual and sensory perception in robotics
Object recognition and manipulation
Human-robot interaction models
Multi-modal sensing and perception
Cognitive architectures for intelligent robots
Navigation and path planning under uncertainty
Social and emotional interaction models for robots
Applications of AI in service robots
Learning from demonstration and imitation

We warmly invite experts, researchers and professional technicians to submit original research papers including results, tables, figures and references (4-12 pages). Abstracts for presentation only are also accepted.

Committee

Steeting Committee

Marcello Pelillo

University of Venice, Italy

Yinqiang Zheng

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Gary G. Yen

Sichuan University, China

David Paul Wipf

Amazon, Shanghai, China

General Chairs

Junchi Yan

Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Handing Wang

Xidian University, China

Theodore Papamarkou

Zhejiang Normal University, China

Program Chairs

Ran Cheng

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Zhenan He

Sichuan University, China

Shuyin Xia

Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Hongyang Li

The University of Hong Kong, China

Local Chairs

Xiaosong Jia

Fudan University, China

Qibing Ren

Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Publicity Chairs

Runzhong Wang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Yunbo Rao

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Financial Chair

Yehui Tang

Pujiang Lab, China