Mr. Manabe wins the IMDS Best Scientific Paper Award at ICPR 2026!

At ICPR 2026 (The 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 17–22, 2026) held in Lyon, France, Mr. Manabe, a second-year master's student, received the IMDS Best Scientific Paper Award (Track 3: Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing). This award is given to the most outstanding paper in each of the six ICPR tracks.

This research proposed a framework that transcribes prosodic information from the speaker’s voice into sign language videos. Using GAN-based sign language reconstruction, it enables the connection between sign language movements and speech prosody.

ICPR is a major international conference in the field of pattern recognition organized by IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition). Congratulations, Mr. Manabe!

Awarded Paper

Toranosuke Manabe, Yuto Shibata, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yoshimitsu Aoki,”Sign-to-Speech Prosody Transfer via Sign Reconstruction-based GAN,” ICPR2026, Lyon, France, Aug. 2026.
arXiv:2604.10413

Toranosuke Manabe (M2) received the IMDS Best Scientific Paper Award (Track 3: Image, Speech, Signal and Video Processing) at ICPR 2026, the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, held in Lyon, France, August 17–22, 2026. The paper proposes a framework for transferring speech prosody from sign language videos via a sign reconstruction-based GAN. Congratulations!