This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2026, held in Osaka, Japan during July 9–12, 2026.

The 45 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions.

The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications; Deep learning-driven pattern recognition, computer vision and its industrial applications; Machine learning and deep learning for data mining and data-driven applications; Multimodal Deep Learning for Represeantation, Fusion and Applications; Natural language processing, knowledge graphs, recommender systems, and their applications and Neural network (NN) theory, NN-based control systems, neuro-system integration and engineering applications