This award is given to the papers that exhibited the most significant influence on the progress of machine vision technology for many years, and the papers will be selected from those presented at the MVA conference ten years earlier (i.e. MVA 2000) .

"Optimized Camera Viewpoint Determination System for Soccer Game Broadcasting," Keisuke Matsumoto, Satoshi Sudo, Hideo Saito, and Shinji Ozawa

"Dense Disparity Map Estimation Respecting Image Discontinuities: A PDE and Scale-Space Based Approac," Luis Alvarez, Rachid Deriche, Javier Sánchez, and Joachim Weickert

"Radial Distortion Snakes," Sing Bing Kang

This award is given to the best paper presented at MVA2011 which makes an exceptional contribution to the research field of machine vision.

Best Paper Award

"Homogenous Superpixels from Random Walks,"Frank Perbet and Atsuto Maki

This award is given to the best paper presented at MVA2011 with significant potential for viable machine vision applications.

Best Application paper Award

Best Application paper Award

"Fast and Structure-preserving Inpainting Based on Probabilistic Structure Estimation," Takashi Shibata, Akihiko Iketani, and Shuji Senda

"A Head-Wearable Short-Baseline Stereo System for the Simultaneous Estimation of Structure and Motion," Hernan Badino and Takeo Kanade

This award is given to the best poster paper presented at MVA2011 with the highest quality, readability and clarity.

Best Poster Award

"Fast Combined Separability Filter for Detecting Circular Objects," Yasuhiro Ohkawa, Chendra Hadi Suryanto, and Kazuhiro Fukui

Most Influential Paper over the Decade Award in the past MVAs
Year(presented)	Authors	Title
2009 (1998)	Huijing Zhao and Ryosuke Shibasaki	Reconstruction Textured Urban 3D Model by Fusing Ground-Based Laser Range Image and CCD Image
2009 (1998)	Kenichi Kanatani	Optimal Homography Computation with a Reliability Measure
2009 (1998)	Seok Cheol Kee, Kyoung Mu Lee and Sang Uk Lee	Illumination Invariant Face Recognition Using Photometric Stereo
2009 (1998)	Yukio Ogawa, Kazuaki Iwamura, and Shigeru Kakumoto	A Map-Based Approach to Extracting Object Information from Aerial Images
2009 (1998)	Naoki Chiba, Hiroshi Kano, Minoru Higashihara, Masashi Yasuda, and Masato Osumi	Feature-based Image Mosaicing
2007 (1996)	Vinod Vasudevan and Hirhoshi Murase	Visual Tracking Using Active Search for Color
2007 (1996)	Keith J. Hanna, Robert Mandelbaum, Deepam Mishra, Vince Paragano, and Lambert E. Wixson	A System for Non-Intrusive Human Iris Acquisition and Identification
2007 (1996)	Gérard Medioni	Using Computer Vision in Real Applications: Two Success Stories
2005 (1994)	Shigeru Ando	An Autonomous Three-Dimensional Vision Sensor with Ears
2005 (1994)	Atsuto Maki, Tomas Uhlin and Jan-Olof Eklundh	Disparity Selection in Binocular Pursuit
2005 (1994)	Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake and Hirotada Ueda	Video Retrieval Method Using a Sequence of Representative Images in a Scene
2002 (1992)	Yoshihiro Fujita, Nobuyuki Yamashita and Shin'ichiro Okazaki	A Real-Time Vision System Using Integrated Memory Array Processor Prototype LSI
2002 (1992)	Roberto Cipolla, Yasukazu Okamoto and Yoshinori Kuno	Qualitative Visual Interpretation of 3D Hand Gestures Using Motion Parallax
2000 (1990)	Y. Suenaga and Y. Watanabe	A Method for the Synchronized Acquisition of Cylindrical Range and Color Data
2000 (1990)	M. Turk and A. Pentland	Face Recognition without Features
1998 (1988)	H. Takenaga, Y. Kobayashi, M. Takatoo, Y. Okuyama, S. Miura, T. Fukushima, K. Asada and K. Fujiwara	Architecture of a High-Performance Image Processing System
1998 (1988)	V. Graefe and K-D. Kuhnert	A High Speed Image Processing System Utilized in Autonomous Vehicle Guidance
1998 (1988)	Y. Matsuyama, H. Iwata, H. Kubota and Y. Nakagawa	Precise Visual Inspection Algorithm for LSI Wafer Patterns Using Grayscale Image Comparison
1998 (1988)	N. Otsu and T. Kurita	A New Scheme for Practical Flexible and Intelligent Vision Systems
1998 (1988)	T. Fujita, K. Sato and S. Inokuchi	Range Image Processing for Bin-Picking of Curved Object