A number of awards are given each year during the DAGM symposium to honour outstanding scientific work of the DAGM community. Besides the DAGM best paper awards for best contributions to the Symposium, the SMI Young Talents Awards for best Master and Diploma Thesis of the previous year and the Olympus Price for outstanding Research are granted.

• DAGM Awards for best paper submissions 2008: total of 4000 Euro (minimum one for a poster presentation)
• Olympus Award 2008: 5000 Euro
• DAGM SMI Young Talents Awards 2008: total of 2250 Euro

• Bastian Leibe, ETH Zürich
  Closely Coupled Object Categorization, Segmentation, and Tracking

• Christoph Lampert, Matthew B. Blaschko
  A Multiple Kernel Learning Approach to Joint Multi-Class Object Detection

• Björn Andres, Ullrich Koethe, Moritz Helmstaedter, Winfried Denk, Fred Hamprecht
  Segmentation of SBFSEM Volume Data of Neural Tissue by Hierarchical Classification
• Kersten Petersen, Janis Fehr, Hans Burkhardt
  Fast Generalized Belief Propagation for MAP Estimation on 2D and 3D Grid-like Markov Random Fields

• Kai Krajsek, Rudolf Mester, Hanno Scharr
  Statistically Optimal Averaging for Image Restoration and Optical Flow Estimation

1. Maria Klodt, Universität Bonn
   Continuous Global Optimization in Multiview 3D Reconstruction
2. Sandro Esquivel, Universität Kiel
   Calibration of a Multi-Camera Rig from Non-Overlapping Views
3. Jan Siegemund, Universität Bonn
   Reconstruction of Trajectories of Moving Objects by using Stereo Image Sequences