DICTA 2025 Travel Scholarship

The Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Application (DICTA) event is the premier conference organised in Australia on computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and related areas. DICTA was established in 1991 as a flagship conference of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS).

The 26th DICTA 2025 Conference will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, Australia from Dec 3-5, 2025 and will feature workshops, selected presentations, industry demos and panels, journal-to-conference track, challenges, and keynote talks from distinguished speakers.

Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) is offering up to six travel funding opportunities to support students (Honours, Master by Research and PhD) and early to mid-career researchers (EMCR) to attend the DICTA 2025 conference. This opportunity would be advantageous for individuals undertaking research in AI and computer vision, such as sensing and processing unusual imagery types (radar, hyperspectral), to novel computing for AI (neuromorphic, quantum), to ethical AI, and more.

The funding opportunity provides financial support to students and EMCRs up to the value of $2,500 AUD for travel-related expenses incurred in attending DICTA 2025 and will be managed by DAIRNet on DSTG’s behalf.

Funding may cover:

Conference registration
Flights
Accommodation
Incidentals (taxi, meals and drinks etc.)

Eligibility and conditions

Successful applicants must:

Be an Australian Citizen.
Be a full-time or part-time research student (Honours, Master, PhD) or an EMCR (completed a PhD within the last 10 years, allowing for career disruptions).
Have previously, currently or are interested in undertaking Defence-related AI research.
Submit a report to DAIRNet outlining the highlights and outcomes gained by attending the conference within one month of attending DICTA 2025.

Selection criteria

Applicants will be assessed across three selection criteria: