SSBA/SSDL 2026

Program

The program will include:

PhD student morning activity

Keynote speakers

Oral presentations of selected submissions

Poster session of selected submissions

Reception on Wednesday

Conference dinner on Thursday

Full program coming after the paper submission deadline

Keynote: Title TBA

Martin Magnusson

Professor, Örebro University, Sweden

Abstract TBA

More keynote speakers will be announced later

Schedule
Wednesday, March 12		Location
9.45 - 10.00	Student Registration	RPL
10.00 - 12.00	PhD students morning	RPL
11.30 - 17.00	Registration	Nymble
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch	Nymble
13.15 - 13.30	Welcome and opening	Nya Matsalen
13.30 - 14.30	Keynote: Paolo Favaro Chair: Atsuto Maki	Advancing Autonomous Learning: Models that Learn, Adapt, and Predict from Real Data	Nya Matsalen
14.30 - 14.55	Oral presentation Chair: Atsuto Maki	• 14.30 - 14.55: Robust Camera Motion from Motion Blur	Nya Matsalen
14.55 - 15.10	Coffee break	Nymble
15.10 - 16.50	Oral presentations Chair: Amanda Berg	• 15.10 - 15.35: TetraSphere • 15.35 - 16.00: Flopping for FLOPs Leveraging equivariance for computational efficiency • 16.00 - 16.25: SPL-BEV: Soccer Player Localization and Birds-Eye-View estimation • 16.25 - 16.50: Multimodal Analysis of Fragmentary Ancient Egyptian Papyri with Disentangled Features	Nya Matsalen
17.00 - 18.00	Reception	Secret location
Thursday, March 13
9.00 - 10.40	Industry presentations Chair: Mårten Wadenbäck	• 9.00 - 9.20: Univrses • 9.20 - 9.40: ContextVision • 9.40 - 10.00: Visual Sweden • 10.00 - 10.20: Savantic • 10.20 - 10.40: Maxar	Nya Matsalen
10.40 - 10.55	Coffee break	Nymble
10.55 - 12.10	Oral presentations Chair: Pavlo Melnyk	• 10.55 - 11.20: Applying Center Loss to Neural Networks for Sequence Prediction: A Study for Handwriting Recognition • 11.20 - 11.45: A Study of Handwritten Text Recognition with Cross out Words • 11.45 - 12.10: Watch and Act - Multi-orientation Open-set Scene Text Recognition via Dynamic Expert Routing	Nya Matsalen
12.10 - 13.10	Lunch	Nymble
13.10 - 14.10	Keynote: Toshihiko Yamasaki Chair: Atsuto Maki	Deepfake: The Light and Shadow of Generative AIs	Nya Matsalen
14.10 - 15.00	Oral presentations Chair: Matteo Gamba	• 14.10 - 14.35: Comparing Satellite Data for Next-Day Wildfire • 14.35 - 15.00: Energy-guided Decoding for Object Hallucination Mitigation	Nya Matsalen
15.00 - 15.15	Coffee break	Nymble
15.15 - 15.40	Oral presentation Chair: Matteo Gamba	• 15.15 - 15.40: TAG: Text Prompt Augmentation for Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection	Nya Matsalen
15.40 - 16.00	Poster pitches Chair: Mårten Björkman	Nya Matsalen
16.00 - 17.00	Poster session	• Physics-informed deep learning for predicting the arterial input function in dynamic PET imaging • The Impact of Data Pre-Processing on Multi-Modal Deep Learning in Spatial Transcriptomics • Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Writings with Rare and Unknown Scripts: The DESCRYPT Project • Individually Fair Representation Learning for DINOv2 • Towards Controllable Image Generation through Representation-Conditioned Diffusion Models	Hyllan
17.00 - 18.00	SSBA annual meeting	Nya Matsalen
19.00 -	Dinner	Syster O Bror
Friday, March 14
9.00 - 10.40	Oral presentations Chair: Victor Wåhlstrand	• 9.00 - 9.25: Semantic Labeling of Persons in Point Clouds for Long Range Applications • 9.25 - 9.50: Reconstruction of Ultrasound-Speed Maps with a Learned Imaging Model • 9.50 - 10.15: Global Tissue Speed-of-Sound via Comparative and Absolute Image Metrics in Ultrasound • 10.15 - 10.40: Towards Out-of-Distribution Detection for Breast Cancer Classification in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Imaging	Nya Matsalen
10.40 - 10.55	Coffee break	Nymble
10.55 - 11.55	Keynote: Carolina Wählby Chair: Mårten Björkman	Functional pathology – the power of combining image analysis and biochemistry to understand disease	Nya Matsalen
11.55 - 12.20	Oral presentation Chair: Mårten Björkman	• 11.55 - 12.20: Find ’em all Evaluating Deep Learning-based Cell Detection Methods	Nya Matsalen
12.20 - 13.20	Lunch	Nymble
13.20 - 14.35	Oral presentations Chair: Elisa Barney Smith	• 13.20 - 13.45: Early Fusion of H&E and IHC Histology Images for Pediatric Brain Tumor Classification • 13.45 - 14.10: Explainable vertebral fracture analysis with uncertainty estimation using differentiable rule-based classification • 14.10 - 14.35: Bacterial species identification using deep learning-based image- and video classification of phase-contrast microscopy time-lapse videos	Nya Matsalen
14.35 - 14.40	Closing	Nya Matsalen

Important Dates

January 16, 2026

Paper/Abstract submission & Registration opens
February 16, 2026

Regular registration deadline
February 20, 2026

Paper/Abstract submission deadline
February 27, 2026

Late registration deadline
March 11-13, 2026

Conference

Submission

We invite researchers from academy and industry to contribute to our joint symposium. The symposium is meant to be a snapshot of interesting research activity in Sweden, and thus we welcome previously published material, and material that you plan to publish elsewhere. Contributions to SSDL and SSBA will not be made openly available online.

SSBA submissions

SSBA is open for short papers (up to 6 pages, including references) on any topic in image analysis, computer vision or pattern recognition. Contributions will primarily be presented orally. A latex template with paper formatting is available here.
SSBA short papers are submitted by email, to: ssba2026@ssba.org.se (deadline February 20)

SSDL submissions

SSDL is open for extended abstracts (2-3 pages, including references) on any topic of interest within machine learning, representation learning, or deep learning. The contributions will primarily be presented as posters (portrait format with a maximum width of 80 cm). A number of the submitted contributions will be chosen for oral presentation. Please use the same latex template as for the SSBA short papers, that is available here.
SSDL extended abstracts are submitted by email, to: ssdl2026@ssba.org.se (deadline February 20)

Registration

Click here for conference registration. Please, register in advance. There will be no registration on site.

Registration fees (excluding VAT)
Regular registration (deadline February 16)	Late registration (deadline February 27)
2600 SEK	3200 SEK

Prices include lunch, fika, booked bus service (Örebro City Center to/from Örebro University), reception on Wednesday, and dinner on Thursday

Venue

SSBA/SSDL 2026 will be held at Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.

Recommended hotels:

City Hotel Örebro
Scandic Grand Örebro
Clarion Hotel Örebro

Sponsoring

Our sponsorship packages offer a unique opportunity to:

Network with the leading research groups in Sweden

Gain visibility before, during, and after the conference

Meet and recruit undergraduate students, graduated or soon to graduate PhD students

Silver Sponsorship, SEK 15,000

Your logo on the symposium website
Public acknowledgement of your support during the conference
Your company is mentioned with a logo in the conference program sheet
Demonstration and exhibition space at your disposal

Gold Sponsorship, SEK 25,000

Free registration for 1 company representative
You will have the opportunity to contribute material to our goodie bags
Guaranteed time for presentation during the industry session

Organisation

General Chair

Amy Loutfi (ORU)

Amanda Berg (LiU)

Program Chair

Martin Längkvist (ORU)

Stephanie Lowry (ORU)

Financial Chair

Mårten Wadenbäck (LiU)

Local Arrangement Chair

Mia Lindström (ORU)

Elin Sandberg (ORU)

PhD Student Morning Chair

Suraj Neelakantan (ORU)

Organized by AI, Robotics and Cybersecurity Center (ARC)

SSBA/SSDL 2026

About SSBA/SSDL 2026

Silver sponsors

Award sponsor

Program

The program will include:

Full program coming after the paper submission deadline

Keynote: Title here

Professor, Örebro University, Sweden

Keynote: Title TBA

Professor, Örebro University, Sweden

More keynote speakers will be announced later

Proceedings

Important Dates

January 16, 2026

Paper/Abstract submission & Registration opens

February 16, 2026

Regular registration deadline

February 20, 2026

Paper/Abstract submission deadline

February 27, 2026

Late registration deadline

March 11-13, 2026

Conference

Submission

SSBA submissions

SSDL submissions

Registration

Click here for conference registration. Please, register in advance. There will be no registration on site.

Registration fees (excluding VAT)

Venue

SSBA/SSDL 2026 will be held at Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.

Recommended hotels:

Sponsoring

Silver Sponsorship, SEK 15,000

Gold Sponsorship, SEK 25,000

Organisation

General Chair

Program Chair

Financial Chair

Local Arrangement Chair

PhD Student Morning Chair

Suraj Neelakantan (ORU)