The AVR Team (Automation, Vision and Robotics) and IRCAD’s R&D Team conjointly obained the Best Vision Paper from the most prestigious international conference on robotics (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA’2004) for the following article: Beating Heart Tracking in Robotic Surgery Using 500 Hz visual servoing, Model Predictive Control and an adaptative Observer, R. Ginhoux, J.A. Gangloff, M.F. De Mathelin, L. Soler, M. Arenas Sanchez and J. Marescaux. Proceeding of ICRA’2004, Vol. 1, pp. 274-279