This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 48th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, DAGM-GCPR 2026, held in Siegen, Germany, during September 22 - 25, 2026.

The 39 full papers included were selcted from 83 submissions, and cover topical sections such as Transfer Learning, Architectures, and Representation Learning, Generative Models and Visual Synthesis, Video, Scene, and Human Understanding, 3D Reconstruction and Stereo, Computer Vision Systems and Applications, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Pattern Recognition in Medicine, Life, and Natural Sciences