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

Submissions will centre on the following themes, while also considering additional relevant topics: pattern recognition, machine learning, statistical techniques in pattern recognition and structural pattern recognition.