The 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI 2026) will be held from August 14-16, 2026, in Shanghai, China. Sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, IEEE; hosted by the College of Big Data and Information Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The conference aims to establish a platform for academic exchange and collaboration among global experts, scholars, and professionals. The conference mainly focuses on themes related to pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. We warmly invite experts, researchers and professional technicians in this field to submit papers and attend the conference. In order to ensure the academic quality of this conference and attract more original high-level academic papers, we now openly call for papers. We welcome scientific researchers, teachers and students engaged in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence research to submit papers

Submission Guidelines

1. Full Paper (Presentation and Publication)

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures and references. Full text papers (.pdf, .doc) should be submitted to the Online Submission System shown below. More than full 4 pages and less than 12 pages.

All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the Conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the Conference and are subject to both review and editing.

2. Abstract (Presentation Only)

Accepted abstract will be invited to give the presentation at the conference, the abstract will not be published.

List of Topics

• 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

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Committees

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

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in PRAI 2026 Conference Proceedings.

Contact

Eileen Wu

Email: praiconf@outlook.com