We are very happy to announce the winners of this years competition. The interest in the competition was very high and we got a total of 440 votes (3 votes per person) in the course of yesterday’s open campus day.
You can find all the entries in this presentation:
https://iof-group.gitlabpages.ista.ac.at/teaching/2025-imagecompetition-analysis/assets/2025_image_competition_presentation.pdf
(Please do not re-post any images without explicit permission of the author!)
And as we like over-engineering stuff as much as the next person, Marco developed a sticker-segmentation analysis routine for obtaining the results of the voting, which you can look up in our repository here:
https://iof-group.gitlabpages.ista.ac.at/teaching/2025-imagecompetition-analysis/
Without further ado, the winners are:
1st Place: Equilibrium by Michaela Jovic
2nd Place: Neural Bloom by Eleonora Quiroli
3rd Place: Untangling the Brain by Jake Watson
and a Special Price goes to Reena Kumari, for sending in 5 (!) amazing images with very thoughtful and poetic descriptions.
The winners will be contacted individually in the coming days regarding their prices.
We would like to exhibit the physical gallery for a few more days in a public space (exact location to be determined) and would later distribute the cut out images to the respective authors.
Thank you once again to all authors!
Cheers,
Your IOF Team