19th International Conference on
Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2026

The International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, biometrics, machine learning, and many others that need similarity searching as a necessary supporting service Please see the call for papers for more details.

SISAP 2026 also features a doctoral symposium. If you are a PhD student, please consider submitting a paper about your project.

The SISAP initiative (www.sisap.org) is a forum to exchange real-world, challenging and innovative examples of applications, new indexing techniques, common test-beds and benchmarks, source code and up-to-date literature through its web page, serving the similarity search community. Traditionally, SISAP puts emphasis on the distance-based searching, but in general the conference concerns both the effectiveness and efficiency aspects of any similarity search problem.

SISAP is recognized as a CORE B conference. The series started in 2008 as a workshop and has developed over the years into an international conference with Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings. You can find links to past SISAP proceedings on SpringerLink.

A small selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be recommended for inclusion in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems. These extended versions will be subject to a second round of peer review at the journal.

There will be a Best Paper Award. The best paper will be recognized with a certificate and a monetary prize, thanks to Springer's sponsorship.

SISAP 2026 will follow a double-blind review process, meaning reviewers will not know the names of the authors and the authors will not know the names of their reviewers.

SISAP 2026 will take place in Brno, Czechia.

Did you know: Brno is the second most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 400,000 permament inhabitants. Brno is the centre of the South-Moravian Region, locally known as the Czech Silicon Valley. These days, it is home to nine universities (five public, three private, and one state) and numerous start-ups. In the past, it was the home town of famous scientists such as Gregor Johann Mendel, Kurt Gödel, Otakar Borůvka, Viktor Kaplan, and a musician Leoš Janáček. In 2021 UNESCO added Villa Tugendhat to the UNESCO World Heritage List.