A paper of Ms. Aniqua Zereen (Lecturer, CSE), graduate student of CSE department under supervision of Dr. Jia Uddin, Assistant Professor, CSE, BRAC University and Ms. Sonia Corraya (Lecturer CSE department, BRACU) is awarded as a Best Paper (Artificial Intelligence & Pattern Recognition category) in an International Conference, 4th International Conference on Engineering Research, Innovation and Education , ICERIE2017 that held on, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh on 13-15 January, 2017. The title of the paper is “Machine learning based upstair and downstair detection for visually impaired”. The acceptance rate of that conference is around50%. From270 submitted papers, they accepted only 140 papers for publication. Among accepted 140 papers, their paper is awarded as a Best Paper.