S+SSPR 2026 is a joint event organized by Technical Committee 1 (Statistical Pattern Recognition Technique) and Technical Committee 2 (Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (https://iapr.org/). The 21st edition of S+SSPR will be hosted by the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Following the trend of previous editions, S+SSPR 2026 will be held in close proximity and shortly after the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (https://icpr2026.org/).

Authors are invited to submit papers addressing any topic in statistical, structural or syntactic pattern recognition and their applications

Accepted papers (not exceeding 10 pages) will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, providing that at least one author will register to the workshop and present the paper.